Chocolate Chip Cookies
A design by Ellie Rice Materials: · Cookie-coloured worsted (Pictured: Red Heart Super Saver in Warm Brown; ·5 x 4.5mm DPNs · l stitch marker · 5-7 large brown beads per cookie (6mm brown plastic pony beads pictured) Glossary: ·K - Knit · Ml - Make one by lifted increase: knitting into the purl nub behind the stitch on your left needle, ther knitting the stitch · K2tog - Knit two stitches together

1. Thread 5-7 beads onto your yarn, then cast on 4 stitches 2., and every even round, knit 3. Ml in every stitch - 8 stitches, distribute evenly among 4 of the DPNs when you're ready, place the marker on your starting needle 5. Ml in every stitch - 16 stitches 7.(Kl, Ml including the one you Ml from) to end - 24 stitches 9.(K2,M1) to end - 32 stitches 11.(K3, Ml) to end - 40 stitches 13. Knit to end 15.(K3, K2tog) to end - 32 stitches Slide a bead all the way up the yarn, hold it there while you knit the next stitch, and it will hang out on your purl side. Repeat at random throughout each of the following plain K rows, obsess about getting your chocolate chips evenly spaced, then give up and hope it works out, because it totally will. The purl side is your right side, so turn it out before the gap gets too small. 17.(K2, K2tog) to end - 24 stitches 19.(Kl, K2tog) to end - 16 stitches 21. K2tog to end - 8 stitches 23. Cut yarn with 3-4 inches spare, thread yarn through the remaining 8 stitches, pull tight, thread through to the back of the cookie, make a few passes through the middle, then weave in the end. For extra realistic chocolate chips, poke them back inside the cookie so you can only see the edge.