Wrap all of the scoubidou thread around a pen: this will give it a spring shape. Then add a star (either black side up or gray side up). Set this rather strange flower into a soliflore vase and adjust its length. If necessary, cut the thread jutting out of the star at a point about 0.4 inches past the hole in the star. Where the third star should be, we've put a sailing knot, made using the white scoubidou thread: it's called the "southern cross knot" and is included, together with a little on its history, in the
decorative knot-tying methods by Guy Franquet. This knot is simple, being based upon the 'lovers' slip knots' knot, and brings a light, aerial, poetic note to the flower-star design, like a piece of foliage. All that remains is to hang the picture to the wall to wait for Christmas or else to place it on the black and white-themed
Christmas table...