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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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WORSTED FLOWERS. 



Godet's Ladys Booh is publishing patterns and direc- 

 tions for making boquets of worsted flowers, and we have 

 had a few of the prettier ones engraved, thinking that 

 they might interest the lady readers of the Genesee Fai-mer. 



CONVOLVULUS. 



Cut a circle in pasteboard exactly sixteen inches in di- 

 ameter. Make with a punch a small hole exactly in the 

 centre. Make twelve marks on the edge of the card, at 

 precisely even distances one from the other, and pass 

 twelve pieces of wire through the hole, over the edge of 

 the card, and through the hole again, at exactly the places 

 marked. You have thus twelve sides of wire, perfectly 

 regular. Fasten these wires firmly together, and cut at 

 the ends. 



Take yellow zephyr, attach an end to the wires at the 

 hole in the card, pass this worsted round each wire once, 

 back, and round the nest, till 

 you make the circle. Make 

 eight rows in this way. Fasten 

 on white worsted by slipping it 

 under one of the yellow rounds, 

 and make six circles of white ; 

 then fasten on pale pink, make 

 three rows, then three of a 

 deeper piuk, three still deeper, 

 two again of the second shade, 

 and then two of the lightest. 

 Fasten off the zephyr, take the 

 wire, and bend it to form a bow or cup-like flower, like 

 the annexed engraving. 



Take six light green pistils*, and, passing them through 

 the base of the flower, attach them to a wire nine inches 

 long; then finish by twisting green zephyr round this 

 wire to form the stem. 



Blue or violet may be used instead of pink, if preferred, 

 or the boquet can contain one of each color. 



ANEMONE. 



Procure a mould two inches long and two inches wide 

 at the broadest part; or, if you prefer it, cut one of 

 smooth card. It should be 

 exactly the form of a half 

 circle at the top, but be sloped 

 nearly to a point at the base, 

 to form the shape of the petal 

 of an anemone. 



Take two pieces, twelve 

 inches long, of brass wire, ex- 

 treme 1 }- slender, and with it 

 encircle the mould. 



Take pink zephyr and wind 

 it smoothly around the wire, 



♦Stamens and pistils are usually purchased ready-made, but if 

 you prefer it you can make them quite easily with an exceedingly 

 slender wife, and Borne colored wax. Separate a piece of zephyr 

 worsted into as many threads as possible, and with these wind 

 the wire, and put the wax on the end, imitating nature as closely 

 as possible. 



to form the edge of the petal ; then carry the zeph 

 lengthwise from one side of the wire to the other, win 

 iug it over the wire each time it passes backward and f< 

 ward, until the mould is entirely covered. Then remo 

 the mould and twist the wire ends firmly together at t 

 base. Make four of these petals exactly alike. Fasten 

 a stem nine inches long, three large green stamens. P 

 the four petals round these stamens, fastening th( 

 lightly together. Twist green worsted around the ste 



RANUNCULUS. 



The ranunculus has seven petals of a bright red. T 

 mould for these should be one inch and a half wide, a 

 ' the petal formed like those 

 the anemone. 



The heart of the flower is 

 a deep maroon color. Mak 

 circle of wire, and pass 1 

 maroon worsted across it ut 

 it is entirely and smootl 

 covered; then on the edges 

 this make small bunches 

 loops of green worsted, a 

 between these place small j 

 low pistils. Fasten, out 

 sight, a stem, by putting four wires at regular distan 

 on the circle which forms the heart, and twisting th 

 together in the centre. Then sew the petals, as seen 

 the picture, to the maroon colored circle. Cover the st 

 with green zephyr. 



SUMMER FASHIONS. 



The fashions for this season are but little changed fr 

 last year. In bonnets, the same styles prevail — wl 

 crape and black lace, with bright colored flowers, i 

 sometimes a band of ribbon, the same color as the fli 

 ers, is put across the bonnet and forms the strings. 1 

 flowers are not put on the front as before, but just ab 

 the cape, near the crown : or if they do commence 

 the front, they run back to the crown. Children's r. 

 are a little altered. For boys, the crowns are rather h 

 and bell-shaped. A white straw, with rather droop 

 brim, trimmed with black velvet, and a knot of lilies 

 the valley, makes an exquisite hat for a young girl. 



Black and white checks, with sacques of the same i 

 terial, are favorite street dresses. Standing linen coll 

 and very narrow cuffs to match are much worn. '. 

 fancy neck-ties still continue in favor. Garribaldi shi 

 made like those worn with Zouave jackets, are now in 

 of various materials, silk, muslin, maaseilles, flam 

 etc., and worn with any skirts — scarlet silk or flam 

 braided with black, are quite stylish. 



Mantillas are made pointed in the back and with lo 

 square tabs, either fitting to the neck or as scarfs, and 

 trimmed with ruffles. Barege shawls, like the dn 

 trimmed with ruches or bound with ribbon, will be in 

 worn this summer, and short black silk sacques with 

 little trimming, made like the cloth ones, will take 

 place of the long sacques and heavy mantillas that h 

 made a warm day in summer such a terror to all fashi 

 ably dressed women for two or three years past. 



