Only a piece of dark-green paper six inches square is required to model two almost perfectly shaped morning-glory leaves.
[Illustration: Fig. 138.--Bring the points together.]
[Illustration: Fig. 139.--Gather along one of the creases.]
[Illustration: Fig. 140.--The morning-glory leaves.]
Fold the square twice diagonally across from corner to corner to find its centre; then begin at one corner and gather along one of the creases until you reach the centre (Fig. 139). Start again at the opposite corner, gather along the crease to the centre, then wrap and tie (Fig. 140). Pinch each leaf from underneath along the crease in the middle, to give the depression at the midrib. Straighten the leaf out a little at its widest part and you will find you have made a pair of leaves which are surprisingly natural. Wrap and tie these to the stem and make as many more as you think are needed.
is of such a different nature it hardly seems possible that it can be made on the same principle as the other flowers, yet the work is practically the same.
[Illustration: Daffodils modelled from tissue-paper.]
[Illustration: Fig. 141.--For the two extra petals.]
[Illustration: Fig. 142.--Pinch and tie in place.]
[Illustration: Fig. 144.--Cut off the ragged end.]
[Illustration: Fig. 145.--Fit each loose petal between two of the others.]
[Illustration: Fig. 143.--Bring together the fan of paper below the petal.]
Match the tint of your natural daffodil in yellow tissue-paper as nearly as possible, and then cut two squares for each flower measuring about five and one-half inches. Fold the squares crosswise and diagonally through the centre as you did for the calyx of the morning-glory (Fig. 134), and cut one square in half along one of its diagonal folds (Fig. 141). Gather the square two and a quarter inches below each corner and tie as in Fig. 137, but do not twist the points. This gives you four petals, but as the daffodil has six, you must make two more from the triangular halves of the square you have just cut. Gather each triangle across from side to side, according to the dotted line in Fig. 141, and pinch and tie in place as in Fig. 142, making sure the petal is of exactly the same size as those on the square. Bring together the fan of paper left below the petal and wrap and tie as in Fig. 143, then cut off the ragged end (Fig. 144). Draw the petals of the square together as you did the calyx, and insert the stem made of a paper lighter. Put in place the two extra petals, pushing the wrapped ends down into the heart of the flower; fit each loose petal between two of the others and tie (Fig. 145).