Homemakers
By JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Reporter
BAIR - “One of the pur
poses of these meetings is to
train leaders of the
homemakers groups in the
county. They take their
newly acquired skill and
teach it to a meetmg of their
members. That m turn helps
them to be more at ease in
learning how to speak in
front of groups,” says A.
Joan Lamberson, York
County Extension Service
home economist.
Mrs. Lamberson
organized the leader
training program on floral
design held on September 21
at the county 4-H center near
Bair. Teacher of the
can create flowers from ribbon
seminar, the first of several
scheduled during upcoming
months, was Mrs. Russel
Fuhrman, 324 Lexington
Street, York.
Mrs. Fuhrman has worked
with flower arrangmg for the
past 25 years, spending 15 of
those years operating a
florist shop. She now
specializes in teaching and
has instructed the adult
evening classes at the York
County Vocational-Techni
cal School for three years.
“I’ve had no real
professional training,”
emphasizes Mrs. Fuhrman.
“Actually, I just sort of ‘fell’
into floral design.”
About 35 homemaker
leaders attended the four
hour seminar, bringing with
them a variety of fresh
flowers and equipment for
on-the-spot arranging ex
perience.
Mrs. Fuhrman first taught
the method of creating a
spray of flowers made from
satin ribbon. For variety in
texture and colors of the
finished product, the flowers
can also be constructed
using dehcate fabrics, such
as organdy or dotted swiss.
Leaves for the floral spray
are made in the same
fashion, using green colored
ribbon or material.
Each petal is fashioned
from a square of ribbon. For
her demonstration, Mrs.
Fuhrman chose unmber 9
Lancaster Farming, Saturda
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Fig. A
;V;
Fig. B
ribbon, which is about four
inches wide. Fold the square
into a triangle (Fig. A.), then
again into another triangle
(Fig. B.). With the rough
edges at the bottom, loosely
pleat the bottom of the
triangle (Fig C.). .Bolding
the bunched ribbon firmly
between your fingers, wrap
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Fig. C
Fig. D
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