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Norma wrote:

Anna Maria, they are beautiful. How big are they;. and could they be used as
coasters?

I used n. 20 thread and they are about 4 inches across. I think that
they are too lacy and "frail" for coasters. Maybe with a thicker thread...

Hugs,

Anna Maria

Norma,

If you used the cotton yarn I bet it would make a nice coaster.

Hugs,

Nora

Anna Maria, do you know if there is a way of stiffening these, like a starch
or something? With the holidays, these snowflakes would make some awesome
ornaments and window hangers.

Karen in MN



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Martin Eccles wrote:
Anna Maria's snowflakes!

Cheers, Martin

http://www.techcopy.demon.co.uk/

Thank you Martin!
Thanks also all the others for your kind words!

I totally missed this messages until now since for some strange reason,
sorry!

Hugs,

Anna Maria

I use a sugar starch to do mine, but there are lots of commercial ones out
there too:)

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Norma,

If you used the cotton yarn I bet it would make a nice coaster.

Hugs,

Nora

Hi Karen!
Some days ago I found this site for different way to starken:
http://home.teleport.com/~noelvn/sno...tiffeners.html

And here is the link to the free patterns:
http://home.teleport.com/~noelvn/sno...ern_links.html
Aud ;-))


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"Karen" skrev i melding
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Anna Maria, do you know if there is a way of stiffening these, like a
starch
or something? With the holidays, these snowflakes would make some awesome
ornaments and window hangers.

Karen in MN



"Anna MCM" wrote in message
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Martin Eccles wrote:
Anna Maria's snowflakes!

Cheers, Martin

http://www.techcopy.demon.co.uk/

Thank you Martin!
Thanks also all the others for your kind words!

I totally missed this messages until now since for some strange reason,
sorry!

Hugs,

Anna Maria

Karen wrote:

Anna Maria, do you know if there is a way of stiffening these, like a starch
or something? With the holidays, these snowflakes would make some awesome
ornaments and window hangers.

Yes, as Aud wrote, there are different ways.
For the ones in the pic I used potato starch. Well, I wouldn´t recommend
it for this porpouse. It tends to yellowish the snowflakes a little bit
and it´s too weak if you want them to remain pure white.
Many years ago I used diluted glue, but DH forbid me to use that, since
I always made a mess in the kitchen LOL
So I went to commercial starch and buyed a stiffening/ironing starch who
comes in tubes and has to be diluted in lukewarm water. I even didn´t
know the existence of this one, since my ironing well... let´s not talk
about it LOL
I used that on a crocheted fan and it works SUPER! It even tends to make
thing even whiter, so it´s the best used until now (apart maybe diluted
glue LOL).

Hugs,

Anna Maria