Mother Nature's Toy-Shop

ver embroidered dainty designs in colors on white linen, and do you love it all? If you do, yo

ly drawn and colored than the greatest artist could do them. Your part is to group and arrange them on a sheet of paper so that

flowers won't stay in place. Your sleeve may wipe them all off, or a puff of air blow them away, so a method has been i

one. This is the long-stemmed, viny kind, and its name is alsike clover. Fig. 15 shows what the alsike clover looks like, and you will see that its le

Clover. Deep rose co

ght design of

was a deep-rose color, and the original design when finished looked like a piece of embroid

s of upright

keep it from being what we call monotonous. Now look at D, E, and F, Fig. 17. These are tracings of the sprays of clover before they were grouped together to form the design Fig. 16. The spray on the left, marked D, is just as it grew and as it

nning desig

give it the extra leaves shown at its right because, without them, it was not symme

rts of runn

he stem near the bottom edge, then the sprays D and F were placed on the right and left of the centre one and tried first in one position, then in another, until it was dec

rge Red Clo

of the clover-blossom, a drop on the under part of each leaf, and on the under part of the stem at the lower end. Then the spray was laid in the middle of the paper just where it was at first, and pressed down to make i

of leaves and bu

ts of leaf a

o which was given its bud that curves in to almost touch the bud on the other spray. Paste

ntly admired it was placed between papers under several heavy books to press, that it might be

s. You can enjoy your fresh designs for a while and then press them. Do not make the mistake of covering the entire un

n be coaxed to curve by drawing it between your fingers, and leaves and sprays can be cut away o

n be used for a border. The little arrows on Fi

lover for Fig. 21. Fig. 22 shows how the parts of Fig. 21 are put together. These drawing