. Godey's lady's book . which, fasten off in the usualway. Sew a wire quite round the leaf, and alsobits of double up each of the divisions at theback of the leaf. The stitches must be takendeep enough to cover the holes left by the in-creasing. Buds.—For the pink ones take five or six bitsof the different shades of the pink wool, doublethem over a bit of wire, double the wire andtwist it very tight; bring the ends of the wooldown, and fasten them round the wire, abouta quarter of an inch long, or less, according to the size required ; twist some ; split green woolround the stem, and for the l
. Godey's lady's book . which, fasten off in the usualway. Sew a wire quite round the leaf, and alsobits of double up each of the divisions at theback of the leaf. The stitches must be takendeep enough to cover the holes left by the in-creasing. Buds.—For the pink ones take five or six bitsof the different shades of the pink wool, doublethem over a bit of wire, double the wire andtwist it very tight; bring the ends of the wooldown, and fasten them round the wire, abouta quarter of an inch long, or less, according to the size required ; twist some ; split green woolround the stem, and for the larger buds makea few long herring-bone stitches in whole greenwool to form a little calyx. The green buds are made in the same way,but rather smaller. They must be mounted ona piece of bonnet wire the length required fora branch. All the flowers placed at the top, the budsaltogether round the stem, a little lower down,and the leaves still lower. Cover all the stemswith green wool split. « • » • >
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