For starching--I only did a doily, so maybe it wouldn't scale up--I mixed "a bit" of starch with "some" cold water & zapped the mixture in the microwave.
Mixing in cold water works immensely better than trying dry starch in hot water, that I do have experience attempting. Ann in CT _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume