A Perfectly Round Crochet Cookie
In four, six, or eight rounds
Over seven years ago now, I designed — and then made — a project I called “The Cookieghan.” When I first set out to make it, the cookies were not quite as round as I wanted them to be.
The usual progression of crochet stitches resulted in cookies that looked like hexagons, not circles, and while I love hexagons and have crocheted hundreds of them. They are not circles, and I wanted a circle.
Eighteen months later, I finally had designed the cookieghan I had envisioned. Composed of 169 crochet cookies, I made it for a friend from third grade whose mother was well-known for her cookie baking talent.
Inspired by the cookies my friend’s mother had made, my overriding design goal was to create as cookie-ish a crochet cookie as I possibly could, and to that end, through a lot of trial-and-error, I found a way to stagger the increases such that the resulting crochet cookie was actually round — not just a hexagon that wished it were round, but a crochet confection that was really and truly round.
With that, and Mrs. Noble’s renown chocolate chip cookie recipe in mind:
