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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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There are certain things that just make sense to knit at this time of year, and market bags are one of them. We tend to use our canvas bags more often in the summer with trips to the farmer’s market and the library, but string bags and market bags are great to use all year.

I love the Three Oranges Bag by Hana Cho, which looks just like a knit version of a plastic shopping bag, but with three cute oranges stitched on. The bag uses intarsia to make the oranges, but you could use duplicate stitch or intarsia to add a different design if you like. It calls for fingering weight yarn and you can find the pattern on Ravelry.

Sharyn Anhalt’s Market Square bag (also on Ravelry) uses worsted weight yarn and a mosaic pattern to make a pretty bag you’ll want to use every time you go shopping. The bag comes in two sizes and is worked in two colors of the same yarn for a fun mixed up effect that’s almost like weaving.

Speaking of fun colors, the Market Bag from Hubbabubbie Art uses a multicolored cake yarn (specifically Lion Brand Mandala) to produce fun color changes without any extra work. This bag is worked from the bottom up with a crocheted bottom and knit mesh sides. It’s a free pattern on Ravelry.

The Pike Place Market Bag from Blue Bird Pine Shop looks like a massive bag to hold all your market goodies (that is a child holding it, but still). The bag calls for worsted weight cotton yarn and the mesh is worked on extra large needles to help it open up to hold everything you want held.

The Knit Farmer’s Market Bag form Design BCB is another good one, made mostly of mes with a little stockinette for extra stability. The base is also worked in stockinette so items you put in it will sit flat.

This mesh bag from Sheep and Stitch doesn’t have a base, and the body is worked flat before being joined in the round to make the top and handles. That makes it easy to make the bag just the size you want because you can stop knitting whenever you feel it’s big enough. The pattern includes a step-by-step video if you need extra assistance.

And the Eco Market String Bag from Mama in a Stitch has a solid knit base worked in a contrasting color from the mesh body. It’s an easy project that comes out a great size for your market needs without being too huge.

Do you have a favorite knit market bag pattern? I’d love to hear about it!