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Kids Craft – Cork Butterflies

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This fun kids craft is easy to make. It uses corks and basic craft supplies to make adorable little butterflies that can be used as little trinkets or pop a magnet on the back.

Supplies

Instructions

  1. Take two larger foam hearts & two smaller foam hearts and glue the small hearts onto the larger heart with your super glue to make decorative butterfly wings.

Once your hearts have dried, it’s time to glue your hearts onto your wine cork to make those butterfly wings part of your Wine Cork Butterfly.

Next, take your googly eyes and glue them onto your wine cork. I suggest placing them at the end with the corkscrew hole.

While you’re waiting for your wine cork butterfly to dry, take your pipe cleaners and cut them into butterfly antennas.

 

Once your wine cork butterfly has finished drying, take your pipe cleaners and stick them into the cork. If you make the head of the butterfly at the end you inserted your wine corkscrew into the cork, you should have a little hole to stick your pipe cleaners into easily. If not, stick a needle into the cork to make a hole.

And just like that, you have cute and adorable DIY Wine Cork Butterflies!

 

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That’s the case with the Bananen-Socken pattern from Susanne Shahin. These banana socks are one of those patterns no one seems to be totally sure where it came from, and this free pattern on Ravelry explains how she makes them based on how she learned it.

It’s a sock that’s curved and when not on a foot it looks rather like a banana. There’s no heel, and you can use whatever number of stitches you need to make it fit your foot. If you’ve knit enough socks to know how many stitches you like you can just use that number, or the pattern notes include sizing charts to help. (It needs to be multiples of 2 for the ribbing.)

After working a traditional cuff, the body is made with ribbing on the back and welts (or what the pattern calls horizontal ribbing) on the front, which is what gives it the curved shape. There’s no heel, but there is toe shaping, but for the leg and the foot you just keep working the same pattern as long as you like.

I’m a little skeptical about how these socks will feel with ribbing on the bottom of the foot, but I’m definitely intrigued and will probably give them a try. 

The pattern notes are available on Ravelry in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. If you head to the pattern page you can see a photo of what it looks like on a foot, and it just looks like a normal sock.

Have you ever knit banana socks or do you want to now? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo: Susanne Shahin]