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

Fri Aug 8 17:53:55 UTC 2014

 Here is another icecream stick craft.  Take a can, about the size of a camble's soup can, Wash the can removing the label.  When dry, Glue your icecream or what we called, popsicle sticks, on the can, like a fence.  Go around the can, making sure your sticks are straight and the curves of your sticks, line up, evenly, at the top.  When dry,  we spray painted the can and used it for a pencel holder.  I sprayed mine gold and gave it to my Mother for a gift.  She used it at work or at least kept it on her desk, for many years.  They make nice gifts.

Finally, I can enter a kids craft, like Henrietta!!!

By the way, We were asking about you in class, last night, Henrietta.
That shows we all miss you!!!

Terry P.

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From: Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 11:12 AM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] God's eyes-Summer crafting

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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