Turn a girl's cotton lace frill sock into a sweet little Christmas angel. A great way to use a mismatched sock for something useful.
Total Time: 20 minutes, drying time excluded
Yield: one Christmas angel
Supplies:
- one girl's white cotton lace frill sock (the sock in the example was size 12½-3½UK)
- white polystyrene ball with a diameter of 65mm
- 1 or 2 brass scourers
- pair of 10mm wiggle eyes
- 30cm long white tinsel pipe cleaner
- 2 large white poultry feathers
- flesh and pink acrylic paint
- Artline 210 Fineliner black pen
- quick-drying craft glue (such as Bostik Clear)
- needle and white nylon thread
- white crochet thread
- paintbrush
- standard scissors
Steps:
- Cut off the sock's toe and 3/4 of the foot.
- Push the polystyrene ball into the heel of the sock, and sew the sides of the opening together at the foot end.
- Tie a piece of crochet thread tightly around the bottom of the ball and make a knot before cutting off any remaining thread. The piece of sock below the ball will be the angel's dress.
- Paint the sock-covered ball with the flesh paint, and allow to dry. Be careful not to mess any paint on the angel's dress.
- At the top of the ball, thread a double strand of nylon thread through the sock and tie to make a hanging loop.
- Cut small pieces from the brass scourers. Use Bostik to glue it to the sock-covered polystyrene ball to make the angel's hair. Be careful not to glue pieces of brass scourer over the hanging loop.
- Glue the wiggle eyes in place.
- Make the angel's crown: Bend the pipe cleaner to make a small circle, and twist each end of the pipe cleaner around the circle to make a neat crown. Glue the crown on to the angel's head.
- Use the black pen to draw a singing mouth, nostrils, and eyebrows, and paint rosy cheeks to complete the facial features.
- Glue the feathers in place to make her wings. Hang on a Christmas tree and enjoy!
