Catching Up
For someone who is not a big fan of colorwork, 55 colorwork Christmas ornaments might seem like an insane challenge. It took me three days to finish ornament number TWO: and about an hour or two to finish one that I made up: I don't know if it's following charts or trying to manage the longer floats without having them show through the white that is so slow, but I'm hoping to get a bit better by ornament 5 or 6. Otherwise it's going to be a long, LONG year. Thankfully, I do have lots of ornament options, and this morning I cut away the excess stabilizer from the lace ornaments, soaked them, and now they're drying on a cookie rack. The stabilizer is made from cornstarch, so it's harmless, and I learned last year that wet ornaments are SUPER sticky so they can't be dried on a towel. I still need to make one more piece for the light blue snowflake, and when they're dry we'll see how the 3-D ornaments work. This is a new technique for...