I've gone on about my love of the "Girls" before, and I know how you all feel about them as well, so we won't waste much time recanting our favorite scenes, favorite Dorothy cut-downs, or Sophia one-liners. I could type for hours about funny memories I've had while watching Golden Girls or jokes my sisters and mom and I bring up on a weekly basis from the show ("..I've just been thrown out of an unauthorized Elvis-fan-club... I'll try to pick up the pieces and go on with my life... I mean there must be a support group for people like me.") but you all have heard it all before!
Now's the time we get to celebrate. Thirty years ago TODAY, the Golden Girls changed TV forever. I'm sure they'd all been told their times had passed, they were too old to star on their own shows, and America wanted the young and the restless. Glad they proved them wrong.
For the anniversary, we all get cheesecake. Not just any cheesecake, crocheted cheesecake! It will keep forever! No refrigeration required. Make a few slices and reenact your favorite scenes, no judgment here.
Golden Girls Cheesecake pattern has been revised and will be part of my upcoming book, Crochet the Golden Girls! (affiliate link)
I have a running list of "dream projects" in my Erin Condren Life Planner. There's things I might never get around to, and there's things I'm working on right now. One of the projects that has been on there the longest is to do a full set of The Golden Girls.
I used to watch it when it came on in prime time. Truthfully, I wasn't killing myself to never miss an episode, and many (many) of the jokes were way over my head. I thought it was funny, though, and my sisters and mom and I still reference it to this day.
You know how you like a show when you're a kid, and you go back and watch it as an adult, and it is sooo different from what you remember? Either it's WAY lamer than your 4th grade mind imagined it (I'm looking at you, "Silver Spoons" and "Three's Company"), or it's so much better than you remember ("Good Times", "The Jeffersons", and yes, even "Murder, She Wrote"). Golden Girls is a prime example of that. If you haven't watched it in a while, PLEASE, watch some clips right now. It is hilarious.
SO FUNNY!
Anyway, I finally got to mark the Golden Girls off my list! Yahoo! Here they are:
Dorothy Zbornak crochet amigurumi
Golden Girls crochet amigurumi
Sophia Petrillo crochet amigurumi
Golden Girls crochet amigurumi
Golden Girls crochet amigurumi set
By now you are ready to make your own, right?! The patterns are available in my Etsy shop and my Ravelry shop. Make them for yourself or give them to a friend. They use simple crochet techniques and the set is 31 pages long with lots of photos and illustrations. Each pattern includes a comprehensive list of materials, with a list of yarns I used for each example. Let me know if you have any questions!
So, are you a Dorothy, a Blanche, a Rose, or a Sophia?
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" and "
"), or it's so much better than you remember ("
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", and yes, even "
"). Golden Girls is a prime example of that. If you haven't watched it in a while, PLEASE, watch some clips right now. It is hilarious.
