More Vs Please Square

Oh Good Lord, that right side is "slightly" misshapen. It looks like I lost count or got distracted.   No wonder I had an interesting time putting the blanket together.  Again I added rows to try and keep squares about the same size. I wasn't very confident in what I was doing on the corners, so I think I *slightly* over compensated.  Outside of my errors, this really is a pretty square.

You can find the pattern here.


Have a wonderful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Lemony Lime Citrus Square

Whew, finally found one that ALL my corners are wonky *snort* Meh, it happens.  While it "could" be it needed to be blocked, I know that these errors are most assuredly mine and not the various patterns , because I'm sure my gauge was off.  The off white yarn was slightly thinner than the lilac yarn, so that threw things off a bit as well.


You can find the pattern here.

Have a wonderful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Impossible Hexagon

Annnnd again, my corners are wonky.  Apparently I hadn't learned how to keep the sides even, lol.  I find it funny that all the pictures thus far have the wonky corner on the bottom left. As if I planned it that way, lol.

This pattern is from archived web page, scroll down a bit to get to the pattern, here.

Have a great day!

Mrs Bissinger

Grandma's Heart Square

This was interesting to do as the white part of the heart is done outlining it after the square is complete.  This is another Ravelry download that you can find here.

Have a most wonderful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Granny's Easier Star

Woo doggy, talk about out of my comfort zone for this one, and this is the easier one, lol!  The blogger/designer does a good job of explaining the pattern and I got it. Any confusion was more to do with my lack of experience on my part.    I want to do the other pattern, I just haven't had the opportunity as of yet.

You can find the pattern here.


Have a great day!

Mrs Bissinger

Framed Flower Square

This is a download from Facebook.  I will include both that link and the Ravelry link, just in case  one or the other doesn't work.

Facebook Download: here
Ravelry Link: here

Have a lovely day!

Mrs Bissinger

Flowery Square

At the time this was a stretch for my skill set. It's not hard, necessarily.  It just wasn't something I had done before.  I needed to add rows to match my other squares and the left bottom corner is wonky.  Again, lol.

Surprise! I have a blog link this time! You can find the pattern here.

I hope you have a great day!

Mrs Bissinger

Falling Star Square

I really liked this one, as well.  I had to add several rows to make it match the other squares.  I'm pretty sure that it was me and my gauge (or lack thereof, as the case may be).

This is also a ravelry download, you can find it here.


Have a beautiful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Butterfly Garden

I love this one. If I hadn't already made other granny squares, I would have done the entire blanket in this pattern.

Again, this is a Ravelry download and you can find it here.

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Blooming Lace

Here is another square I did for Miss J's blanket.  The bottom left corner is a little wonky, but I am pretty sure that was me and not the pattern.  I needed to add a few rows to several of the squares to make them about the same size and I think I zigged when I should have zagged on this one. Live and learn.

You can find the pattern here. This is another Ravelry download, but again, its free. I'm frugal like that. Yeah, frugal, that's it. :-)

Have a beautiful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Yarn Holder

Mr Bissinger is a handy sort of fellow. Ok, handy isn't the word I want, more like freakin' fabulous at building stuff. I will admit I am slightly bias, but only slightly.  We had talked about him building me a yarn holder in passing. So when Christmas time hit, he asked me what I wanted. Of course I had no idea, but I was drowning in yarn. Originally, I had been storing the skeens in boxes under our bed, believing (I was so naive) that I wouldn't be needing a great deal of room because I would only buy the yarn I needed for whatever project I was working on. Yeah, that lasted all of 3 months.  Needless to say, skeens overfloweth.  We decided the best place for it was on my side of the bed over a console table I use for a night stand that way it could be hidden from view (from the bedroom door), should it be an unorganized mess.  Otherwise it could have taken up the entire wall on the other side of the room. Now THAT was tempting, lol.

So with a few measurements and math, this is what he built:

See? FABULOUS! It fits as snug as a bug in a rug. Of course the picture doesn't show the entire collection of yarn. There are two other boxes (plus more now, this was Christmas), but for pretty picture sake, gotta make it look pretty :-)

There are other projects my wonderful husband has made over the last few months, including a picnic table he constructed with some 2x4s, a hand saw, drill and screws. Almost entirely within a two hour period for our youngest's birthday party.  I'll post that when I get a decent picture of it.

I hope you have a joyful day!

Mrs Bissinger

Blooming Granny

A while back.. ok. ok more like a year ago. Geez details, schmetails, lol.  I had started posting about the various  granny squares I had done for a blanket for Miss J.  This is a continuation of said series.  I will link the blog/pattern/website, but I won't repeat the patterns here.  They aren't mine.  Several may be downloads (I only downloaded free patterns for this blanket) from a website called Ravelry.com.  You have to register, but it is free.

This particular pattern is called Blooming Granny and you can find the pattern here. This is a Ravelry download, but again it is free to join.

Have a fabulous day!

Mrs Bissinger

Oh Cookie, why do you confound me so?

Cookies, oh how I love them. Eating them? No problem, well maybe too much of a problem. I have to ignore that they are within my vicinity, so to not over indulge. Baking? That is another story entirely.  I have good days, but mostly bad ones.

My husband drives me nuts, he can bake cookies with his eyes closed and they come out perfect. My cookie baking experiences are hit and miss.  Let's take the other day for example.  I decided to bake up some cookies for Miss J (my youngest) to take to dance class to celebrate her birthday. I had planned on cupcakes, but it probably would have helped if I had gone grocery shopping to get the ingredients.   I had the ingredients, barely, for cookies.  She wanted to do chocolate sugar cookies (oy vey) and cut them into shapes with sprinkles (well, duh, HAVE to have sprinkles).  So off to the interwebz for a recipe! I found one, but of course it called for butter and while I had butter, it was frozen solid. Not so good for cookies needing to be baked with in a couple of hours.  Substitutions! Yeah, well, therein lies my mistake.  I pulled out the shortening. Now I know full well that there is more moisture in butter and when you substitute shortening for it, there needs to be an added liquid of some kind to make up for it. Did I think of this when I was in the process? Briefly and only when I realized the sandy mess that was in my mixer was not going to make a decent cookie, let alone roll out to cut into shapes.  

So I added a little water and the dough came together, thankfully, but I was pretty sure it wouldn't roll out.  I chilled it anyway (as the recipe called for) but decided that as a back up I'd make my favorite peanut butter cookies too. Those, at least, came out the way they were supposed to.  

As the first batch of peanut butter cookies were baking I pulled out the chocolate cookie dough. No way would it roll out.

 So instead I rolled them into balls, thinking they would spread and flatten out a bit, heh, no.

About half way through the cooking time I squished them down in the middle with the back side of a spoon, then they looked like a cookie! lol!

All in all, Miss J had cookies to take with her. The chocolate ones were decent, not overly sweet but a little on the hard side.  We have plenty left over and they are being eaten, so that's good. I did find a different recipe for chocolate sugar cookies and it calls for more butter than the original recipe I chose, so it may have not been completely me.  May, being the operative word here.  Miss J wants snowflake cookies for her Olaf birthday party this weekend. Hopefully that will be more successful.  

We shall see

Have a beautiful day!

Mrs. Bissinger