Bookmarks carved using craft sticks or ice cream sticks are another example of the Old Carver’s Law: “Leave no wood un-carved.” As a boy whittling with a pocket knife, I often picked up discarded pop cycle sticks off the play  ground to carve into toy rifles.  In later years these same kind of sticks are carved into book marks as a souvenir novelty carving.  Because of the direction of the grain of wood and its gnarly grain there is a limit of subjects that can be carved on the end of a craft stick.  The photographs depict some designs such as ear of corn, acorn, pineapple, saw, flower, shoe and the latest edition of a chip carved quilt square. Read the rest of this entry »