Sunday, August 10, 2014

Textured Snowflake



I may be done with the second round of the 25 motif challenge, but I still have a few snowflakes left to go in Vida Sunderman's book.  I thought about stopping, but I cannot bring myself to do so, especially since all the metallic thread has been ordered!

It has been a long time since I worked with metallic thread and I forgot how careful you have to be when closing rings.  I almost snapped the thread closing the first few rings...

This snowflakes includes what I think are called victorian sets.  I don't have much experience with those sets, but it definitely gets lost in metallic thread!  I suspect they would work best with thicker threads.  I also misread the initial instructions so the first chain is too long.  Since it is not all that obvious, I am happy I decided to leave it as is - otherwise this would never have been completed.

Made with Kreinik braid No. 4.

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