Stiffening Crochet Flowers
Dear Aunt Daisy, Just a note at the end of your morning talk to thank you for the wonderful hints you give us, and to ariswer the question of the Link who makes crochet flowers, and asks how to stiffen them. I make flowers, too, and use boiled starch, but they must not be ironed! Just put them on a,clean paper and pull and pat into shape as they dry-in a very cool oven, with the door open. On nice days they dry well outside. Ironing takes off the crisp, fresh look, and flattens the stitches too much.
Cheerio
from Palmerston North.
Another good idea is to stiffen them with rice water — just save the water after boiling and straining rice. Dilute it if necessary. One Link who used to crochet tiny baskets for holding sweets at patriotic sales during the last war, says she stiffened them with boiled sugar syrup.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 230, 19 November 1943, Page 19
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154Stiffening Crochet Flowers New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 230, 19 November 1943, Page 19
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