A little picture essay on the making of snowflakes . . .
I really needed a size larger crochet hook than the size 6 (1.8 mm) hook I was using, and the thread was very slubby, which didn’t help. And in the years since I’d made them last, I had forgotten just how brain intensive following a crochet pattern is. Life is hard, then you get over it.
About three pins into pulling out the straight pins after the snowflakes had been liberally coated with stiff stuff, I realized why God gave us needle nosed pliers. Duh!
I didn’t have days for the stiff stuff to finally dry all the way through, so I got creative. Air circulation did the trick. I elevated it even further off the table by putting it on upended juice glasses. Use what you have in more creative ways.
The last three snowflakes! Small victories add up.
Fifteen snowflakes, stiff and sparkly. Gluing on the ribbon loops with a hot glue gun reminded me why I hate hot glue guns. GLUE STRINGS!
Three sheets of this paper cost me $23! — (mostly because 3 x $0.79 for paper, 2 x $1.50 for two tubes of glitter which was on sale for half off, and 2 x $9.99 for two “teacakes” of yarn. . . .yeah, I know. I was going cold sheep, but . . .) I have no willpower and I need to stay out of Michael’s.
Sewed them to a piece of blue card stock and stuck some little plastic snowflakes on as accents. Presentation is everything.
Mom took them to the auction at her SEKRIT KLUB. They were auctioned off for $25 a set, so $75 toward a very worthy cause.
And . . . there is knitting news. The yarn “teacake” got rolled into a big ball and a hat is in progress. It’s superbulky yarn (6) so it ought to go fast. I’m calling it the Mossman hat because it’s a man’s toboggan done in moss stitch. Pattern to be posted in my knitting blog once I’ve finished knitting it.
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Those snowflakes are gorgeous — and yea, you, for getting them done on time. I couldn’t do them at all, although I think I would be capable of stiffening them, and so on. I heard a bit on NPR last week on some cooking show about all the great things you could do with a rimmed cookie sheet and those oven racks. They didn’t mention drying snowflakes, though.
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