When I was a kid in Ohio our backyard was full of violets and I could never get them to braid either. We had some sort of small yellow flower too that I had more success with -- I always called them buttercups but I don't know if they technically were -- and so sometimes I'd stick a violet or two into the braid I was making with those, but even with those, my results never really matched my mental images. Your thread-assisted version works much better!
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When I was a kid in Ohio our backyard was full of violets and I could never get them to braid either. We had some sort of small yellow flower too that I had more success with -- I always called them buttercups but I don't know if they technically were -- and so sometimes I'd stick a violet or two into the braid I was making with those, but even with those, my results never really matched my mental images. Your thread-assisted version works much better!