I just finished crocheting Snowflake 41 from the Big Book Of Thread Ornaments
I strung tiny red beads onto my crochet thread before I started the snowflake and added them as I went along wherever I felt like. Midway into crocheting and beading I had the thought that the beads could possibly weight down the ornament, making it droop when hung on the tree. (I have no experience with this so bear with me).
I added many beads to the middle and less as I went along and actually like how it turned out.
Following the instructions I've read on many a crochet blog or craft web site, I:
- soaked my snowflake in fabric starch (100% strength for maximum stiffness)
- squeezed out the excess starch
- laid the snowflake flat on some paper towels and rolled it up to get a bit more of the extra starch out
- placed waxed paper on top of a sturdy cardboard box lid
- used nickel plated pins to shape and hold the snowflake
- waited
- and waited
- and waited for the dang thing to dry!
- ate dinner
- went to bed
- woke up in the morning
- waited for the starch to dry
- decided the old saying "watched water doesn't boil" is TOO true
- started working on a completely different project knowing that if I forgot about this one completely it would magically and suddenly dry when I wasn't looking
- realized I was right about the last bullet-ed step above
- forgot what I was doing and started pattern browsing
Signing off to pattern browse some more and try to remember what the heck I forgot about and to practice being a serious grown-up, a discipline I never mastered, thank goodness.
UPDATE:
Here's the finished, almost dry product of all that waiting and wondering and worrying...
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