For this exercise I found some plastic drinking straws and formed these into a star shape.
To create the interlacing within the frame I selected some Twilley's Goldfingering and laced this around the various parts of the star shape. In order to ensure that the star didn't come apart, I was careful to wrap the thread around all the intersections and finished by lacing a small amount of a finer lurex/gold thread around each intersection, knotting and tying off then tidying up the edges.
Although this is a simple piece I feel it is quite effective. It would be interesting to perhaps add beads or sequins to the thread beforehand to give extra texturing. It might also have been possible to wrap some of the plastic straws but they were very slippery and didn't lend themselves to painting or similar additional embellishment.
