Today's adventure was to create my own knitting needles. I purchased a wooden dowel at a local craft store for less than 1 dollar. I divided it into 4 equal pieces, cut them with a pair of garden shears and then sharpened the ends in a pencil sharpener.
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| Finished acorn capped needles |
Then I played with some polymer clay and a few acorn tops I had left over from my felted acorn project. A rolled a few balls of clay and stuffed them into the acorn cap. Then I pushed the needle into the cap/clay and reworked the clay shape (ever so slightly!).
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| blurry close up of pink & green acorns! |
After pre-heating the oven, I baked them for a little over 15 minutes - caps, clay and dowel.
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| a little more natural then the pink/green! |
After they cooled I took a little wax paper and bees wax to smooth the dowel/needles. I also popped off the acorn top and added a little glue...just in case.
Now...what should I knit?!
Save your chop sticks next asian meal- they make great knitting needles.
ReplyDeleteand when mini- mania strikes- tooth picks!!