For anybody interested...

[RachelG]

...here's a section of links on my site that will take you to a wide variety of starching tips if you like starching doilies and bookmarks and such. Several of the links provide lots of starching recipes and ways of applying the stuff. I don't think I've ever starched something, but there's always a first time.

Have fun! :bounce

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

Okay, okay. I'm really out of it. (Long day, you know.) You probably already realized (and I just did before I hit the add post button) that I forgot to give you the link!!! :oops

www.crochetpatterncentral...roduct.php (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/instructiondir/finished_product.php)

There. That's better.

[Tiffany]

It's okay, Rachel. We'll forgive you..... once! :p :nana

Thanks for the great link! :) You do an amazing job finding things for your website. :hug

[RachelG]

Oh, running across links doesn't require any great skill, it's requires time. Nowadays this is how I find a link:

I go to a crochet forum which takes me to a post about who-knows-what which takes me to a blog which takes me to another blog which takes me to a web-site that a. has a new pattern or b. is one that I've never seen before. :wink

Either that, or looking deep within the pages of Google and following crochet link pages.

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Julie]

Thanks Rachel! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/bounce012.gif" />

[RachelG]

You're welcome! :rock

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Donna]

Thanks for those links, Rachel! Here are a couple of really good ones you may want to add from the Thread Crochet and Snowflakes (http://home.teleport.com/~noelvn/snowflakes/) site.

Stiffeners (http://home.teleport.com/~noelvn/snowflakes/stiffeners.html)
Blocking (http://home.teleport.com/~noelvn/snowflakes/blocking.html)

[rebeccav]

oh my gosh!!! donna, that lady has lost her mind!:eek crocheting with sewing thread?!:sweat that's nuts!
although, there were no pictures... i really wanted pictures :cry

[RachelG]

Thanks, Donna, for the links! :fluffy I need to update and add more links to the blocking/starching section...it's been neglected as I've been searching for patterns.

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Donna]

Rebecca, she has one page (http://home.teleport.com/~noelvn/snowflakes/pattern_links.html) with some photos.

You're welcome, Rachel! :thumbsup

[Deb]

Rachel ~~~ <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/rofl.gif" /> I'm laughing over here.. about your link leading to a blog that leads to another blog where there might be instructions to ... hhahaha

Sounds like the random surfing I do sometimes. What a way to waste a good hour (or two or three).

Keep up the good work! We love your site<img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/thumbsup.gif" />!!!

[RachelG]

I laugh at myself. :lol Sometimes it is quite crazy how I end up finding something. Some days I find nothing and others days I find "everything". It's just the way it goes.

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[rebeccav]

donna - i tried the shock therapy method from the lady from the 'snowflake' page.....

crochet something tinier than what you are going to do a project in, then the project won't seem so tiny.....

(i tried desperately to get a picture of this, but it just wasn't working)

had dinner at my mom's tonight and was going through her hooks - she doesn't crochet, but my gr-gr grandma.... and everyone else did. the hooks (all steel) have been passed down and someday they will be mine - anyhow - all the way to a size 14! crazy tiny!!!
so, i crocheted a 2 inch chain from my daughters hair!!!:eek
my dad was a little grossed out, but i was quite proud :yay2
TINY TINY TINY!!

[RachelG]

Y' know, I've never tried crocheting hair before. That would be small! :rollin

Rachel
www.crochetpatterncentral.com (http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com)

[Donna]

:woohoo I am proud of you too, Rebecca! I love that you crocheted your daughter's hair! :lol I have a size 14, but I don't know if I'll ever use it! :wha