The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-21
MAKING FLOWERS
OF SILK FOR HATS
Is New Way to Earn Christ
mas Money.

There is a new way for the needle
woman to earn her Christmas money, or
if that is not her desire, to make some
dainty gifts for her friends.
Milliners all over the country are con-
stantly seeking new flowers; art needle
! work stores are always on the lookout
| for clever ideas and new ways of doing
| handwork.
Now We have flowers and foliage made
of silk, linen or cotton thread in the
simple buttonhole stitch, which is, OF
course, familiar to every woman who
uses her needle to any extent.
The work offers a wide scope for in
genuity and skill; realistic effects can be
| obtained by the employment of close but
tonhole stitches in vari-coIored threads.
The leaves and petals of flowers are
worked out in exactly the same method
as thread lace is executed. The flowers
are made OF silk, cotton, linen, or crewel
woods on a pattern of paper or thin
glazed chintz or paper muslin.
As linen or merceriZed cotton threads
are easier to work with than silk, 1t will
be best for the beginner to use one or
the other.
The ivy leaf is a gJed model to choose
at first, for it can be worked using only
two shades Of green-dark for the leaf
and lighter shade for the veins
Draw with pencil the shape of the leaf
on stiff paper or chintz and tack a piece
of the finest milliner's wire, covered with
green thread. all around the edge, fol-
lowing the line of the design. leaving two
strands of the wire the desired length
of q stem.
Cover the wire with a row OF button
holing in dark-green thread and, begin
q n
across the point and back until you have
filled in the entire surface OF the wire
frame. Mark the veins with a lighter
shade of silk by the simple outline stitch
and wrap the wire stems closely with
the darker silk. Rip of the pattern and
the leaf is finished.
All sizes and shapes of leaves are
treated in the same manner. The daisy
is pretty and easy flower to begin on.
After drawing the outline of the flower
on paper, run white wire around the
edge, buttonhole and fill in with white
thread or silk, as you did the leaf. In
the center work a ring OF yellow thread
and fill il in with French knots on the
buttonholing. A stem is fastened on
underneath, and long leaves are applied
to this.
Make Each Petal Separately.
In working roses make each petal sep
arately, graduating them in size, so you
will have small ones for the center and
broad petals for the outer edge.
When you have enough twelve or
fourteen are plenty, fasten them to-
gether with fine wire and join to a heavy
wire stem that is wrapped with green.
Five shaded petals are correct for pam
sizes, with a yellow center. The chrysan-
themum is made by joining forty or fifty
petals, to a long. thick stem. The wire
edge on all the flowers and leaves makes
it possible to bend them into any desired
shape or to put little kinks in the edges |
that closely resemble the natural flowers |
Chrysanthemum petals are curled over |
like those in nature.
Mistletoe is made by buttonholing with |
dark green silk or metal thread and at |
the junction of two leaves on a stem ap-
plying a pearl bead to represent the |
berry. Holly can be reproduced in the
same manner, using a cluster of red
beads fastened to fine wires These flow
ers make beautiful and unusual corsage
and hair ornaments.
A spray OF mistletone or a wreath of
ivy leaves with little clusters Of red
berries makes a wonderfully pretty Golf
fure adornment.