Today is National Cookie Day! I'm celebrating by making some chocolate chip cookies and embroidering a tribute to a random family joke involving Christmas cookies, John Belushi, and a snowman cookie cutter.
My family always makes Christmas cutout cookies. We use a recipe from my dad's family; I believe is was his grandmother's recipe, so my dad has been enjoying/making these cookies for his entire life (he's 73). We make a least a batch every year. When I was younger, my mom would make enough to send back to her family in Michigan, or we'd take them if we were going back for Christmas. This is where John Belushi becomes a part of the story. I don't know the exact year this happened, but one year, probably in the mid-late 1980s, my aunt and uncle decided the snowman cookie looked like a Blues Brother. They started referring to this cookie as "the Belushi Snowman," and it has forever been known as such. The cookie cutter we use is one of the oldest ones we have; we can never, ever lose it.
Today's piece is my attempt to render the Belushi Snowman in thread. I think I did him justice.
Details:
Stitches: whipped back stitch, back stitch, French knots
Thread palette: DMC 437 (6), C433 (2), C666, C890 (3)
Other materials: sequins
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