[Nfb-krafters-korner] a time to shop

[AUDREY WELLNER]

Joyce, 
  Thanks for the accolades.  I'm glad you were able to put it to good use.
  I know JoAnnes sells them this time of year (in the frame department). I think that's where I found those. I think the liquor stores would have them, but at a much higher price. I would even try a place like Ocean State Job Lot or other Job Lot discount stores. 
  They are considered gift containers for wine bottles. The best description I can give is that they are like a hard cardboard cylinder mailing tube (big enough around to fit a wine bottle inside) with a 3" to 4" high additional one side flat covered piece of tubing that slides down the cord and over the cylinder to act as a lid.  The lid is held in place by a anchored knotted cording first secured with a knot into the large cylinder and then fed up through two holes in the flat lid top to form a carry handle.  Like a Pringle can with a cord handle through the flat plastic lid. 
These can be recycled and used (if you're a Pringle fan) but the wine bottle ones have a deeper lid than the Pringles flat plastic lid.  Cheaper to buy them at a discount place-if you can find them.  If not, go for it and run down to your grocery store and buy some Pringles and make your own. Get a hunk of 1" drapery cord from your sewing store to use as a handles.  Put two holes on directly opposite each other through side of Pringles can, approx. 1" below where the lid snaps on. Don't make holes bigger than diameter of your cording.  Tie a knot in one end of approx. 18" piece of drapery cord (experiment how long you want the handle). Feed un-knoted end of cord from the outside into the center of the cylinder. Pull free end of cord from center of cylinder out top of can. Take free end of cord and continue to fed through bottom side of snap on lid and out of the top of lid. Now continue with free end of cord back down (from top/outside
 through to underside) through the remaining hole in plastic snap on lid and then down into the middle of Pringles cylinder and out remaining hole (from inside to outside) opposite where you started. Now tie a knot in the free end of cord.  That's all there is to it. Adjust the length of cording used to your preference (longer of shoulder carrying or shorter for hand held). The top should slide down your cord and snap on the top of the Pringles can.
   Joyce, check my travel sequence for the cording handle on yours. I don't have one here to reference. I'm doing this from memory. If its not, please let the list know. 
   Happy crafting members and lets see how many ingenious recycled can combinations we can whip up. Let me know what you come up with. 
   The Storyteller, 
   Audrey Wellner, Secretary
   NFB Krafters Korner division
PS.  We used to use oatmeal boxes, but they were too short for most needles. 
      

--- On Sat, 11/27/10, Blindhands at aol.com <Blindhands at aol.com> wrote:


From: Blindhands at aol.com <Blindhands at aol.com>
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] a time to shop
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 2:13 PM


I just had to tell you about a present that I received going back a couple  
of years ago  that I received from a very good friend.  Actually, this  
friend is here on the list and you all know her well.

This is the time of year that I believe you can easily find this nifty  
holder for your knitting project.  I know that they sell them in the liquor  
stores and I am sure you can find them else where.  

Now let me describe this to you.  It is a round cylinder shape and has  a 
cord handle.  They usually have them quite festive in decorations.   The cord 
handle is attached and you can slide the top up to get inside the  
cylinder.  They use it to put liquor ottles in for a holiday present.   Now you must 
think this through.  It is tall enough to hold a wine bottle  so it is tall 
enough to have a pair of knitting needles standing up.  It is  also great 
and a ball of yarn fits in perfectly.  It is made out of a thick  cardboard 
material and all you do is slide the top down and pull up the cord and  you 
are ready to go any where with everything securely  closed in  tight.  No way 
will things fall out.

I bet the dollar stores might even have them at this time of the  year.

I owe my wonderful present to our story teller, Audrey.

Joyce  Kane
www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com 
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