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One thing happens when you have the critterologist as your best friend -- she knows how to get you hooked! And I don't mean my knitting or crochet either. I have two additional tips to more easily make the lavender wands: 1) After first tying on the ribbon, take the end to be used later and put it in in the middle of all of the blooms, then 2) with some sewing weight thread either a sage color or the color of the ribbon, wrap the thread around the blooms encasing them. If you do these two things, you will minimize the loss of your blooms and minimize any aggravation in trying to weave the ribbon over and under the stems because the encased blooms and the other end of the ribbon now will be mostly out of your way. Attached is a picture of my latest attempt. Unfortunately I didn't follow my first tip above (hadn't figured it out yet) and was constantly moving that dangling piece of ribbon out of the way! If you do lose blooms, just sweep them up and gather them in a muslin "sack" and you'll have a quick piece of sachet. Happy crafting. -Leslie
Good golly, Leslie, I could tell you're an accomplished knitter (even if I didn't already know) -- look how even your ribbon rows are! Beautiful!
That's a GREAT tip about wrapping up the blooms with some thread. I guess you'd do it even before you started bending the stems down over the blooms. I know one of the most aggravating parts for me, especially near the start of the weaving, was the way the long stems I was working with would keep tangling up with the shorter bloom ends of the stems... a few wraps of thread would sure solve that problem!
