Making a Brigid’s cross is easy! Originally made out of rushes or straw, Brigid’s cross is equal armed with a woven center. If you can’t find rushes, raffia and straw are readily available at Micheal’s or JoAnn Fabrics.
      Take 4 strips of rush (or whatever material you have chosen) and fold them in half cross wise. Hold a strip with the fold away from you. Take a second strip and loop it over both thicknesses of strip 1, about 1/2″ from the fold of strip 1 with about 1/2″ overlapping on the fold end. Strip 2 should now be at  right angles to strip 1, with the fold on your left. 
     Take strip 3 and loop it over strip 2 so that the fold is facing toward you and overlapping by 1/2″. Take strip 4 and loop it over strip 3, with the fold on your right and the tail pointing toward the overlap of strip 1. Push both free ends of strip 4 through the overhanging loop of strip 1. Lay the cross flat and gently pull the free ends of the strips so that the 4 make a cross with a woven square in the center.
    You may want to ease the cross apart now that you have flat creases and put a dab of craft glue inside the fold to secure it. If you do, then be sure to re-tighten the weave.