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

[Diand Filipe]

When I went to Camp Fire camp, we used branches that had fallen from the 
trees!
Diane

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From: Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 9:11 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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