Dream Irises - Year Round

My Dream Iris would bloom year round.  Since this is not possible, I 
crafted Irises from pipe cleaners.  You can make any color combo that 
pipe cleaners come in.  I used straight and bump pipe cleaners to 
create each flower.  Two per stalk 'appear' to be real iris bloomes.  
I took my craft to a cub scout meeting and had ten year old boys 
creat their moms a bloom for Mothers Day.  Well to my surprise Iries 
come in some new color combos that only a child could dream of.
  You need six straight and six bump pipe cleaners per bloom.  you 
craft each Standard and fall seperately.  Then assemble the flower.   

CRAFT SIX petals as follows:
Take one straight pipe cleaner and bend it 4-5 inches from an end.  
Now bend the Bump pipe cleaner in half.  Twist the bump pipe cleaner 
over the straight pipe cleaner, where you made the bends.  Hold your 
craft so the Bump cleaners are up and the Straight are down.  Bend 
the bumps cleaners in half, back to the twisted connection.  Twist 
the end of each bump cleaner to the straight cleaner.  With the bump 
cleaners looking like bunny ears and the straight cleaners hanging 
down.  Take one side of the straight pipe cleaner and align it along 
side of the bump cleaner, to the tip of the bunny ear.  Join the 
straight pipe cleaner to the bump cleaner, with one twist throught 
the point of the bunny ear.  Do the same to the second straight and 
bump pipe cleaner.  You now have two seperate bunny ears with 
antenna, one long and one short.  Twist the antenna together to 
finish the petal. Turn your craft so the straight cleaner is down, 
you are looking at One standard or fall. Fluff and shape each petal 
to a spoon effect.  Make six all the same.  Then secure three as 
standards and three as falls.  I used tree branches as stalks, you 
can place your bloom on any straight stick of choice.  Two blooms per 
stalk and cover the stalk with green pipe cleaners or florist tape.  
Place the in a tall vase and you can have Iris Blooms year round.  
  My vase has an all Black Iris stalk, and a Yellow Rimed White 
Iris.  Then an Iris with Whit Standards and Purple Falls.  All three 
stalks have two blooms.  It has fooled several friends thinking they 
are real flowers.        


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