A Bowl Full of Stars

There's a lovely bowl of stars on the go for the Holly Bazaar. I like to make some kind of ornament for the craft table and didn't make any felt birds or hearts this year, so I thought I'd give these a try.

Years ago (I'm talking when I was in high school, so years) we learned how to make Moravian Stars (or Scandinavian Stars, or German Stars, depending on who you ask) and they have sat in the back of my mind as something I'd like to try again. This is one that I made way back when and somehow it has managed to stay intact through all the moves and shuffling about in my life to date.

I started out with printed instructions but just kept getting stumped at a certain point; then I found a great YouTube tutorial. You can use almost any paper - something with a little slippage/gloss to it is good - but I like the look of the white so I'm just using legal sized printer paper cut into half inch strips (I'm using an old blade).

That's not to say that there weren't several false starts (or is that 'false stars'?).

Almost...

I think that being left-handed was messing me up because as much as I had the instructions in front of me I seemed to want to rotate things in the opposite direction. So, back to the video, over and over, pausing after every step, and finally I think that I have mastered it.

In the video the gal talks about the need to just repeat, repeat, repeat to embed the instructions in your brain, and she is bang on.

It takes me about 15 minutes to make one so now instead of trolling Pinterest while waiting for meals to cook I put together a star or two, and they start adding up. They need strings attached yet, so I'll get on that. I think they would make a gorgeous little garland for the mantle....M