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Twinkle, Twinkle

There has been a fair amount of stash diving being done recently.  Having to find just the right colours for the knitted fruit requires searching through all the acrylic yarns to find just what would help identify that particular fruit.  While there looking around I found two skeins of 180 meters/198 yards Lane Borgoseisa Toreador yarn.  (Searching today it appears this yarn is now discontinued.)


The photo is not capturing the brilliant golden sparkle this viscose (64%) and polyester (36%) yarn offers.  It is stunning in person, you´ll just have to take my word for it.

With Xmas creeping up, I have started thinking about making some sort of tree ornament with this yarn.   My new Great White North patterns from Tin Can Knits has two ornament patterns, but neither would make the most of this yarn.  Ravelry, on the other hand, offered the perfect Six-Pointed Star Christmas Ornament pattern created by Barbara Breiter.  Her version looks like this:


And my version, which is still drying after a liberal spray of starch, looks like this


My poor twinkler is being s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d within an inch of its life because I am testing to see if spray starch can hold this shape or if some sort of fabric glue with much more body to hold will need to be used instead.  Since viscose is another word for rayon, blocking in the usual manner with water will not work.  There will be a report back on how this test star turns out.

Twinkle, twinkle little star.  How I wonder ..  if this will work or not??

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