ornament is showy and pretty; it is also very quickly made. Fold through the middle a piece of bright orange tissue-paper six inches square. This will give you an oblong. Fold again through the middle crosswise, and you will have a smaller square. Bring the two opposite corners of the square together and fold like [Fig. 204]; then cut off the point curving the edge, as shown by the dotted line. The folded part of the triangle is at the diagonal in [Fig. 204], the edges at the bottom. Now cut slits in your triangle like [Fig. 205]. Open it, and you will have [Fig. 206]. Make two fringed circles like [Fig. 206], lay one on top of the other, pinch the centre in a point, twist it, and draw the fringed ends together ([Fig. 207]). Make a writing-paper lighter for the stem, cover the point of the ornament with paste, insert it in the large end of the lighter, and press together with your fingers until it holds tight. The result will be like [Fig. 208]. In fastening the chrysanthemum ornament on the tree, stand it upright and run a pin through the stem into one of the small branches.
| Fig. 207—Pinch the centre into a point. | Fig. 208—The chrysanthemum ornament |
Strings of
Colored Paper Disks
Fig. 209—The colored paper disks.
looped from branch to branch, take the place of colored glass balls, and add materially to the beauty of the tree.
[Fig. 209] shows how these strings are made. Red, gold, yellow, orange, green, blue, and white make pretty disks, and show off well on the tree.
Cut your disks perfectly round, and in pairs; for they must be the same on both sides, G, H ([Fig. 209]). You can make the disks on some strings all of one size; on others they may graduate down to quite small ones at the ends. When the disks are cut out, lay one down, bottom side up, H ([Fig. 209]). Cover this with paste, then lay a white cotton string across the disk, directly through the middle. Allow about six inches of the string to extend beyond the disk, and let each string be one yard long. Before the paste has time to dry, press the mate of the disk, G ([Fig. 209]), on top of H, over the string, taking care to have the edges even. Go through this process with each disk. Paste them on the string one inch apart, and leave six inches of string at the last end.