I'm currently working on the Flower Basket Shawl and have a lifeline question. Basically, it comes down to this: unwaxed dental floss is darned near impossible to find where I am. And I have a feeling I might have left the floss I was using at relatives the last time I worked on the shawl. (And it was the last pack at the store where I found it.)
I've been putting off continuing on the shawl until I find more. Except I was looking through the latest Knit Picks catalog and there they suggested using
waxed dental floss. Oh, the possibilities! Wal-Mart, Walgreens, Target, the supermarket, they all have waxed dental floss. (That said, the minty flavored waxed options still far outnumbers plain waxed, but I draw the line at my lace being minty fresh.)
Only I'm not certain where I got it in my head that unwaxed was better. But it kinda makes sense to me, though that doesn't mean it's right. Has anyone here used waxed dental floss for lifelines? Or what else have you used? (I'm considering heavy duty sewing thread as another option.)