More ideas, both I've had done, and witness to as being effective: 1. Put the pile of straw on a tarp outside and run a lawnmower over it a few times. 2. Put the straw through a garden shredder.
You really don't want those knots by the way. You'll see when one has somehow worked its way to where you want to put a pin... Stuff until there is absolutely no possible way you can get more straw in without busting the cloth cover. The surface should be rock hard and smooth. Your pricking card will operate more effectively. The action of stuffing is hard on the hands and wrists so don't waste time with little cutting devices on the straw - and there is a reason for using the straw, it is because they had lots of it to hand at the time. On 8/30/10, Tatman <[email protected]> wrote: > How ingenious! Good repurpose of a garden tool. I thought about using the > food processor, -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
