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The heart is perhaps the most difficult part, but a child who has
learned in kindergarten to weave with paper will be able to do it
without much trouble. Cut from watercolour paper two pieces in the shape
shown in Fig. 92. The paper should be doubled and the fold laid against
the straight edge at the bottom of the pattern. The size does not
matter very much, though if the heart is to hold anything the pieces
should measure four inches and a quarter from the doubled edge to the
top of the rounded end and two and five-eighths inches across. Rule with
pencil a light line across each piece at two and five-eighths inches
from the straight end. Five lines are also ruled in the other direction,
the first one seven-sixteenths of an inch from one side of each piece of
paper and the others the same distance apart (see Fig. 92). Cut along
these lines with sharp, strong scissors from the double straight edge to
the ruled line near the top of each piece. The lower part of both
pieces will thus be cut into doubled strips. Now take a piece in each
hand, rounded end down, and weave the lower strip of the piece in your
right hand through the strips in the left-hand piece. As the strips are
double, the weaving must be done rather differently than with single
strips of paper. The strip with which you are weaving goes around the
first strip in the left-hand piece, through the next one, around the
next, and so on (see Fig. 93). When it comes to the end it is pushed
down a little way and the next strip on the right is woven above it,
only that this one passes through the strips that the first one passed
around, and around those that the first one passed through. Weave one
after another until all six of the strips in the right-hand piece are
woven in with those on the left--when it should open to form a
heart-shaped bag, as shown in Fig. 94.
[Illustration: FIG. 94]
Colour the heart on both sides with vermilion watercolour paint and it
will then be ready for the silk top. Cut from scarlet China silk a strip
five inches wide by half a yard long. Sew the ends together, hem the top
and make a casing for the ribbon drawstring, as described in the
directions for the beaded silk bag in chapter V. The lower edge is
gathered to fit the inside of the top of the heart and pasted into it on
a straight line, running just below the openings, around both sides of
the heart. If the paste is not very sticky you may need to take a tiny
stitch here and there with scarlet sewing silk, tacking the silk top
more securely to the heart. It will then be ready to line with a lace
paper doily or some waxed paper, and fill with bonbons.
_A Frog Jumping Jack_
=Materials Required:= A small sheet of 4-ply bristol board,
A box of watercolour paints,
A ball of fine white string,
Pen and ink,
A pair of sharp scissors,
A large, sharp-pointed worsted needle.
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