Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-01-25

Making Germantown Fiowefs'
| Contributed by Mrs. j. ]. Murphy, South
Paris.)
The wool flowers that look 20 chic up
on the fur and velvet hats this season
are of Germantown yarn, and are very
easily made. The woven and combed
ones are much prettier than those made
on blckram, and take about the same
amount of yarn.
TO MAKE THE LILY
Get one spool of No. 80 annealed wire,
which costs Eve cents ut any hardware
store. Cut seven pieces IL inches long,
and three pieces inches long. Six OF
the pieces are for petals and ono for the
green leaf. The three shorter pieces are
| for the center and stick.ups. Get two
skeins of Germantown yarn, one white
and the other leaf green.
To make the petals, take each wire
separately, double In the middle. max
ing a loop in the end. Double the
white yarn one inch through the loop,
holding the wire and yarn in left band
tightly. Cross the right hand wire from
you to the left and the left hand wire to-
ward you to the right. With the thumb
and forefnger nail of right hand grip the
cross in the wire and give one twist to-
ward you. This holds it very firmly.
Then you can wind yarn around the
forefnger of left hand once between the
wires and cross the wires back and twist
az before. Repeat this, and after wind
ing around the finger few times, slip
off the loops of yarn from your finger
and keep on winding and weaving until
you have woven one and one-half inches,
one thi cad at time, then twist the wire
close to the yarn to hold it firm, cut
yarn of, leaving about five inches to
wind the stem, then cut the yarn loops
in center. Hold one side firm while you
comb the other. After combiDg each
side OF the wire weave, so it looks like
cotton batting, comb from stem end TO
point of petal, as this will partly cover
| the wire weave. Turn the petal over,
place on pattern of lily petal, and cut
the wool close to the pattern. This makes
one petal. Weave, comb and cut, all pet
ais alike.
For center, wind yellow yarn around
your thumb seven or eight times, insert
one OF the fve-inch wires and twist II
tight. Cut the loops and comb out
fluffy, and trim 1t even like the center of
a flower.
The stick-ups are made by inserting
the yellow yarn double in loop ends OF
the wire, then twisting the wire tight to
hold it from slipping while combing,
and wind with the yarn to end Of wire.
Cut the loops of yarn, comb out smooth
and cut the shape OF fan.
To assemble: Place the stick-ups one
each side Of center, place the six petals
around the center, the combed side to-
ward the center. With piece of wire
| bind to position. With leaf green yarn
wind the stem, beginning over the bind
| ing wire and winding down about two
inches. Then twist In the green leaf,
which Is made with the last Pinch
wire and leaf green yarn woven to.
gether just as the petals were, only
longer, about two aud one-half inches,
and cut In shape of lily leaf. After
combipg then finish winding to end of
stem, and fasten with darning needle.
For combipg you should use sharp
steel comb such as cotton weavers use,
called pick-Out comb.
These wooden flowers are original, and
/ color the yellow centers with yellow
crepe paper in boiling water with tea
spoon Of salt added to set the color.
You can make any kind Of flower
weaving the same way as the lily, and
cutting to the shape you desire. The
rose. jonquil, thistle, narcissus, Japan
lily, Easter lily and fleur-de-lis are all
very pretty in their natural color and
form.