In the thirteen days since the month of August began, officially kicking off what is known at my house as “crochet season,” I have begun work on the crochet cookies I will need for this year’s entry: Cookieghan 2.0), and recently I decided that I had better start crunching numbers

The cookies have been accumulating in bags, on surfaces, and under my son’s important papers for school (which starts shortly, so when I finally got to the crochet part of my day, I decided that the first order of business was to finish work on the partially completed cookies that littered my purse, my kitchen and my living room.

Several hours later, I had written comprehensive directions for two of the cookies, woven in any number of ends of cookies that were nearly done, and crocheted these seven small cookies in their entirety:

as well as the cookie portion of two large frosted oatmeal cookies-to-be:

By sunset of the 477 cookies needed for this project, I had completed nine (of 36) medium crochet cookies:

twelve (of 49) large crochet cookies:

and 49 (of 392) small crochet cookies:

When I wake up tomorrow morning, there will be just sixty-two days and 355 cookies between me and the deadline for the North Carolina State Fair.