When I was a little girl in Indiana my aunt showed me how to make a doll from the flower of the Althea Rose of Sharon bush. It grew in the front yard of our farm. The petals made a lovely long dress and the doll’s head was the unopened bud of another flower. A few years ago we were visiting my husband’s family in upstate New York when I noticed the same flowers blooming all around and took advantage of the opportunity to make one again.
To make this flower doll:
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