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Aren't they just the cutest - and most pointless - things ever? With this nice weather (right, 23/24.C is hottt!) we've all been on the playing field at lunch, and it is overrun by daisies. So for the last week, every single lunch, I started making daisy chains. I've never made one before, so I'm still a nub.
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Do you like to make daisy chains? how long do you make them? Isnt the weather just HOT HOT HOT?! (:
goo! :jess:
School uniforms are HOT HOT HOT! :bigsmile:
and no, im a guy, and we dont make things out of flowers.
nub question: isnt a chain supposed to be.. well.. round?
As a kid I tended to scour entire fields pulling up the daisies because I remember being told they were technically a weed. These days I'm less callous towards plants, though I'm by no means on good terms with them. They give me oxygen, I give them carbon dioxide. Done deal.
I must admit I've never ever made one of those. Tons of girls used to make them when we were little, though :P
Also, yes.. the weather is amazing these days.
Flowers are meant to be trampled into the ground, then burnt with a flame thrower.
I have no idea there were daisy chains :confused: But I never made any!
Naw. I preferred just picking daisies and bringing home 'bouquets' for my mum. I would put them in eggcups half filled with water. ^_^
Or doing 'he loves me, he loves me not' by picking the petals off. :love:
People have tried to teach me before, but I was pretty young and therefore I thought:
Only without the flame thrower part. Ironically, the few times I've ever actually wanted to make them for whatever reason, nobody was willing to teach me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raebus
I've never made daisy chains but I have woven three strands of grass or weed stalks together when I find myself in a field and I'm bored..
I never knew how to make them, and we don't really have a lot of daisies here anyways xD
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Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight
I haven't made daisy chains in years. Used to do it a lot when I was bored, when I was younger. I was useless at it. :(
And yes, it is really warm. Me and my friends have been getting ice creams after school and walking home in the sun. Good days. :heart:
When I was at school I used to make them into little rings/bracelets. It's been years since I last made a daisy chain.
I'm loving this weather. The sunny days make me smile. :jess:
Not to wear they're not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aerith's Knight
They can be whatever you want them to be, I've had a necklace and a bracelet made for me out of daisies :jess:
I used to eat flowers.
I am likely allergic to daisies, so I would not want to be near daisies or anyone wearing a daisy chain.
I am a hippee, wooooo!
I used to make those. I made some long ones, too. Like, five feet long, once. Yes, I had a lot of time on my hands. :D
Your 'fro looks so... ginger. :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harle-Quin
I used to make these daisy bracelets and necklaces but different from a typical daisy chain. Like in Zeldy's picture, the daisies are a couple inches apart. I used to make mine so that the daises would all be touching each other and tightly woven in together. More like a wreath I guess. Used to LOVE doing that.
WTF?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia
^ That's the kind of daisy chain I'd like to make :monster:
Wikipedia rules.
Anyway I used to try to make them but I would always screw up making the hole in the stem. My thumbnail would just shred it all up. It would take ages to make a chain of three and then I'd just quit.
I'm going to join forces with Psychotic, hunt you down, and forcibly dye your hair actual ginger. :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by RyeYour 'fro looks so... ginger. :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harle-Quin
Zomgosh Amy, I made one on Sunday when me and Daniel went sun bathing in the park. :heart:
INSTRUCTIONS FO' THE POOR, DEPRIVED PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM :eek:
:save: Pick daisies either one at a time or in a big bunch, all with long stemsI LURVE DAISY CHAINS they're great :bigsmile:
:save: Using your thumbnail, carefully split a part of the stem. If you chop it to bits, that's what the long stems are for! Just try again using tiny incisions
:save: Gently pull the incision wider until you can make it into a neat little gap
:save: Thread your next daisy through the gap by the STEM and pull it through until it's stopped by the head
:save: Rinse 'n repeat!
:save: When you reach the end, I prefer to thread the first daisy thorugh the stem of the final daisy by the head, but some people like to tie them. I personally think it a bit clumsy and doesn't look so nice. If you've made a choker/bracelet/belt/ring/etc. where you're wrapping it round whatever multiple times, do so before tying it off.
I used to make them in elementary school everyday almost! I have a memory of me and some friends trying to make the longest chain possible! :love: