A fun twist with hats. And recipes!

So I had a couple requests from a couple of good friends of mine, to make them hats. These are the pictures I get.

I'm glad I could make my friends happy with this sort of thing.

Once again [with these patterns, anyway] I cannot claim them as my own, so this is where you'll find the panda pattern and this is where you'll find the hat and beard patterns.

I know I haven't been keeping up with my blogging lately and I'm sorry..life's got a hold of me! And I just got a big order from my Etsy Shop, so I may not post anything else for about a week or so. I need time to make all of it! Lots of fun hours ahead. I also don't want to leave you guys without something else to enjoy, so here's a couple of really fun recipes!

Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

2cups + 1 tbsp flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

12 tbsp melted butter

1cup packed brown sugar

1/2cup sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

2tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/2cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Make sure before you preheat your oven to put the rack in the middle and then preheat to 325 degrees.

Combine the flour and baking soda.

By hand (and this is way easier) mix the butter and sugars.

Beat in egg + yolk and vanilla.

Add dry ingredients and chips.

Make 1/4cup dough into balls. 

It should bake for 7-10 minutes. [Every oven is different]

**Personally I made them a little bigger because I was looking for a good recipe for big soft choc. chip cookies. THIS IS IT!!

Garlic knots

For the dough- 1 3/4cup warm water     [Make sure it's warm!!!]

1/4cup olive oil

1tsp. salt

1tbsp. sugar

1 1/2 tbsp active dry yeast

5 1/2 cups unbleached flour

For the garlic coating- 1/8cup olive oil

2tbsp. butter

4 cloves garlic (finely crushed)  [[I used minced garlic in a jar and it worked out great]]

1/4cup italian seasoning

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

Combine water, olive oil, salt, sugar and yeast. Mix.

Add flour. Mix. Set in a warm spot [like on top of the preheating stove] until doubled in volume.

Roll flat to 1/2in by 5in. [[I just grabbed from the ball of dough and rolled it between my hands.]]

While the knots are baking, make garlic coating.

It'll bake for roughly 8-10 minutes.

When you take the knots out of the over, spoon the coating over each knot and you're done!

Homemade Meatballs

1/4cup water

Ground beef [or vegetarian substitute]-1-1 1/2lbs

2 eggs

1/2cup buttermilk

3/4cup unseasoned breadcrumbs

4tsp. garlic & onion minced [[minced garlic in a jar once again and onion powder does fine in a pinch]]

1/2cup parsley

1/2 parmesan

2tbsp oregano

1tsp. salt

1/2 tbsp pepper

Preheat  your oven to 375 degrees.

Whisk eggs.

Add water, buttermilk & bread crumbs.

Stir and let rest for 10 minutes.

Combine bread crumb mixture, garlic/onion, parsley, cheese, oregano, salt & pepper.

Mix and make balls.

Bake for 30 minutes.

Recipes that don't really have much to do with each other, but they're short and sweet and I want to keep my readers entertained! So if you try any of these out this weekend, let me know how it turned out!

~Namaste~

The more and more and more I crochet.

I feel like I haven't been a loyal writer lately! I've been busy with all sorts of stuff, and some of that stuff including crocheting more things! Take a look at the things I've made :]

 The black hat with dark blue strips I made for my husband. It's more slouchy when it's on an actual human :p But with mine I started the blue strip at row 15, doing a hdc instead of dc. So it's hdc, dc, hdc, dc, hdc, dc. No sc's in mine.

 This little sloth and pineapple I made for a little internet community..First amigurumi EVER..and clearly it's amateur, but I enjoyed it ^_^ The leaves I did differently though because they were a pain in my butt, so I'll go ahead and provide that: Ch. 7, in 2nd ch from hook, sc, hdc in next st, dc in next st, 1tc in next 3. That's it! It was wayyy easier than the other for some reason.

I made this panda hat for a friend. Nothing too different about this one :]

And I just made these for tiny little storage devices! The two tan bowls are about 2.5 inches in diameter and used for my buttons and the red ball is just a smidge smaller. I use the red ball for my yarn needles and stitch markers..it works perfectly! Other than these little bowls and ball, all of these patterns I have provided links for :]

Don't forget to check out my Etsy Shop :]

Happy crocheting!

~Namaste~