I iced the cake for my friend J first thing Thursday morning.
I originally wanted to put a very large Free Standing Lace (FSL) Poinsettia on the top. However, when I did a trial stitch out, the poinsettia was tiny. Unsurprisingly, the designer wasn't able to do an enlarged design for me this close to Christmas, so I spent some time looking for alternatives. I'd decided that an FSL snowflake would work well, but all the ones I could find were far too small. Eventually I found one, bought it, and stitched it out. The stitch time (excluding me changing threads etc) was 80 minutes, it was a very elaborate design. Thank goodness I did the stitching on Monday, which gave the washed out design plenty of time to dry before it was needed on Thursday morning.
