Fig. [115].—Second triangle.
Fig. [116].—Third triangle.
Your eye will soon become sufficiently accurate to enable you to gauge the distance from A to B, and you can then cut from C to B without measuring.
| Fig. [117].—Fold once more. | Fig. [118].—Cut from C to B, curving the edge. | Fig. [119].—The circle still in its folds. |
Before Beginning Your Flower
take up the natural one and examine it carefully. You will notice that it has a great many petals crowded closely together and that their edges are pointed like a saw. You will also see that the green calyx is wrapped snugly around the lower part of the flower and that it, too, has a pointed edge.
| Fig. [120].—The circle opened. | Fig. [121].—The petals. |
Now hold the pink off at arm's length. The separateness of the petals disappears and you see them only as a mass; the points on the edges are not noticeable except as they give the flower a crimped appearance, and the edge of the calyx looks almost straight. It is this last appearance or the impression of the flower that you are to produce rather than its many and separate little parts. So now to work.