Christmas craft parties (Continued from Page 94) A second benefit is therapeutic.'Even the least talented novice can go home from a few hours of relaxed socializing and have an attrative craft to display. Then, added to that victory is the fact that the item cost a fraction of the usual ready made market value because costly • lefovers where avoided. Recently, a craft session such as this was held by Mrs. Kenneth Rutt, Edgefield PROFIT/ GROff WITH QUALITY JEEP ORDER SMALL GRAINS NOW FOR FALL SEEDING barley wheat Barsoy Rapidan Voibar Henry Monroe Abe Arthur Arthur 71 Potomac Red Coat Coker 747 McNair 4823 All Grains are Certified & Treated. CALL m-H^eHamu.caiPOMnN Located at Rt. 322 & Reservoir Roads Honey Brook. Pa. Phone (215) 273-3546 Oh, you say you haven’t got the results back yet on those forage samples you sent to the that other lab? You say it’s been two weeks, and you wouldn’t be surprised if it took two more weeks? 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Send your 3 - 4 oz. sample with a check in the proper amount today to: NEW JERSEY FEED LABORATORY, INC. Farms, Quarryville R 3, in which herb wreathes and twine wreaths were demonstrated. The following were the instructions given to the three women present: HERB WREATHES The herb wreath may be used as a door wreath or as a centerpiece with a candle inserted in the center for a candle ring. The wreath is very delicate in appearance with a base of statice. The accent is provided by small clusters of strawflowers P.0.80x 357- Dept. B Trenton, NJ 08603 info or mailers, call 609-392-88181 surrounded by bay leaves. Additional texture and color is developed by using cin namon sticks, small pine cones, and tiny dried flowers. The selection of a complimentary bow and accent flowers placed at the bow knot provide the finishing touches. The list of items needed to make the herb wreath in clude: -10 inch straw wreath purchased at craft store - approximately one-half bunch of nice statice (white, star-shaped dried flower) purchased at craft store or florist -Yarrow -Strawflowers -Small pine cones Clover shaped strawflowers -One and one-half to two yards of one-half inch wide burlap ribbon -White glue -Sturdy floral wire {green) -Wire cutters -Cinnamon sticks -Bay leaves (whole) -Approximate cost - $5. Pint step: make the bow from the ribbon. Be sure to hold the ribbon so that the shiny side is not facing out. Create a bow with three or four loops to a side, leaving one end of ribbon long enough to wrap around loops to form the knot. Before wrapping the long end, loop a six-inch long piece of wire over the knot section of the bow and twist wires together at back of bow. Wrap long ribbon over wire by going between the two ends of wire then up over the top of the knot, down the WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, MR. DAIRYMAN? < •» > •r- * The third step to making a braid wreath is attaching the braids to a wire frame with a slip stitch. front and finally end at the back. Twist wire ends around end of ribbon. Pull bows out to pleasing arrangement. Twist wire to hold in place. Step two: make a hanger. To do this use a six-inch length of wire. Push each end of a loop of wire through th«r straw wreath. Try to push the wire through the back of the wreath deep enough to hold firmly, one fourth of an inch deep. Pull wires through leaving a loop above the wreath and twist the two ends securely together. Step three: apply the baseofstatice. To do this, take the bunch of statice and clip off branches leaving short stems on each bunch. Dip stems into glue and place on the straw wreath with the stems lying in the same direction. Fill top and side areas as you go around the wreath. Cover so that straw ■ tancaster Farming/ Saturday, October 29,1977—97' is not easily visible but not so dense that additional or naments cannot be placed. Step four: place the bow on wreath. Use wire ends and glue. Step five: add color. Snip stems from strawflowers, dip into glue, and cluster the smallest ones over the wreath (perhaps five or six groups). Add small pine "‘7kediif*tx4iU f WEAVERI I SiAs = SBfco I W” R.D. 4 MYERSTOWN, PA. 17067 CALL COLLECT 717-166-5701 cones lying in the same direction and cinnamon sticks also lying in the same direction. Color design will tend to swirl or draw eye around the wreath. Place bay leaves next to and around the clusters of flowers to create effect of real flower leaves around a (Continued on Page 100)
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