Granny Squares Galore!

Granny Square Afghan Crocheted with Caron Simply Soft Brites

Christmas Goodies

I love Christmas tins decorated with frosty snowmen and little birds...

teddy bears, presents, and holly.

Especially when there's something inside!

Hey! What's hiding in there?

Are those cookies?

Yes! These are cookies!

The yummiest, Soft Sugar Cookies I have ever eaten!

Perfect for the holidays!

Soft Sugar Cookies

(These are a drop cookie... no rolling required!)

Cream together the following 3 ingredients until light and fluffy.

2/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup SOFT butter (do not melt)
1 1/2 cups sugar


Add the following ingredients to creamed mixture and mix well.

2 eggs
3 t. vanilla extract
1 t. salt
2 t. baking powder

Gently fold in the following ingredient. Do not over-mix.

3 1/2 cups flour

Use a small melon scoop to measure out the dough, and roll into small balls. Roll cookie dough balls in sugar (colored decorator sugar would be nice). Place sugared cookie dough balls on ungreased cookie sheet, and bake at 350 F for 10 minutes.

Makes 6 dozen cookies.

Yum!

Update: Brown Eyed Baker is hosting a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer Giveaway. The deadline to enter and submit your favorite holiday recipe is Dec. 10th. I submitted this recipe, and to see what everyone else has submitted... and to enter... click HERE! :)

I Love Granny Square Afghans!

A work in progress...

(The color in this photo is way off. All the colors are really much more muted and much lighter. The orange-yellow in this picture is really just yellow.)

Teal and Brown Baby Afghan

Pretty Posy Afghan for A Sweet Little Girl

I found the PATTERN for the floral motif at BEV'S COUNTRY COTTAGE, and incorporated it with some regular granny squares. The green round on the yellow and pink granny squares was done in hdc so those squares would be the same size as the floral motifs.

Fourth of July Fun

Boat Parade at the Inlet

A lone bird...

And fabulous fireworks! What a great day!

So Soft and Cuddly!

I recently completed this cozy afghan...

Crocheted with Caron Simply Soft Yarn in Off-White....

Which is more of a soft, buttery-yellow...
which I absolutely love!

Welcome to My Garden

Or should I say Granny's Garden?

As in Granny's Garden Doily?

There aren't any weeds...

Just lots of ends to weave in...

And I should have ironed it...
But who has time to iron...
When they're so busy crocheting? hehe

Hard to believe it started out looking like this:

Cute Confections

My sister made these adorable Baby Bib Cookies and Baby Cupcakes for a friend's baby shower.

Don't you just love the tiny cut-out of the father? lol

Latest Crochet Projects

The Amen! of Nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendall Holmes

I love crocheting with fine thread and a size 5 steel crochet hook. Here are two of my recently completed projects.

A pretty flower bookmark...


I'm going to make more of these in various colors. I like the idea of turning something plain and ordinary... like a bookmark... into something special and pretty. The patterns for the flowers and the leaves came from an old crochet book that my mother bought decades ago. The blue flower is a Forget-Me-Not... and reminds me of her.

My most recent crocheted doily...


The design reminds me of the whirly toys I used to get as a child. You know... those pretty, shiny, whirly things on a stick that turn when you blow on them.