[Nfb-krafters-korner] God's eyes-Summer crafting

[minh ha]

would be be happily wrapping yarn around popsicle sticks!
Minh

On 8/8/14, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:
> THanks so much Dixie for this! When I was little and went to summer
> camp, I was totally obsessed with making these. lol. The other campers
> would be getting down and dirty with clay or painting and I
>
> On 8/8/14, Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>> Ok, so the Good Humor truck has been to your neighborhood every day for
>> the
>> past month, the kids have hit you up for an ice cream each afternoon.
>> Now
>> what to do with all of those popsicle sticks you have floating around?
>>
>> God's Eyes!
>>
>> What you will need:
>> 2 popsicle sticks, cleaned
>> Some yarn (small balls of left over yarns from various crafts, different
>> textures, etc.
>> Scissors.
>> A dab of white glue
>> (optional paint)
>>
>>
>> If you choose to you may paint your popsicle sticks to add more color to
>> your project.
>>
>> , place a dab of glue in the center of one flat side of a popsicle stick.
>> Place the other popsicle stick atop the glue, making an X glued in the
>> center, with the 4 legs evenly separated.
>>
>> When the glue is dry, take your yarn, and tie a knot around one of the
>> legs
>> of your X where the two sticks intersect. Turn your God's eye so that leg
>> is
>> in the North position.
>>
>>
>> With the sticks at North, East, South, and West, you are going to start
>> wrapping your sticks.
>>
>> With the knot in the back, bring your yarn up between the north and west
>> legs of the sticks, over the front of your X,, over the East leg, wrap
>> the
>> yarn between east and south, around the back of east, and up between the
>> east and north sticks.  Now go down over the south leg, Between the south
>> and west sticks, around the back of the south stick, up between south and
>> east.
>> Down between north and west, behind west, up between west and south,
>> Down between north and east, around the back of north, and up between
>> north
>> and west.
>> You have now made a complete trip around your God's eye.  You will
>> continue
>> this pattern, laying the next round alongside of the first round of
>> wraps.
>>
>> Continue until your God's eye is as full of yarn as you like.  Some like
>> the
>> yarn to go quite close to the end of the sticks, others like the points
>> of
>> the sticks to be more prominent.
>>
>>
>> Some options:
>> My mother used to make God's eyes out of toothpicks for Christmas
>> ornaments
>> or earrings.
>>
>> She also used to use dowels from the hardware store.  She would paint the
>> dowels and those God's eyes were really large, the full size of the
>> dowels.
>>
>> This is where your creativity comes in.
>>
>> Some can be all one color, others can be layers of colors, adding in rows
>> of
>> different textures, metallic, different types of yarns, or wires, beaded
>> or
>> not,   adding in areas of open space, or any kind of adornment.  My
>> mother
>> used to like to add tassels, she would hang them from the ends of the
>> sticks
>> of the God's eyes.  Some rounds she would wrap so the back was in the
>> front
>> and the front in the back, giving it more texture and visual interest.
>>
>> Have fun, and flag down that truck for a few more ice creams, the summer
>> isn't over yet!
>> Dixie
>> @-> ~ <-@
>>
>>
>>
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> recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
> but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on
> their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." T. E. Lawrence
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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on
their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." T. E. Lawrence