This flower was created at the TABA demo, January 29-30, 2000, in Marble Falls, Texas.

1. Dorothy called it a Cattleya Orchid. The Orchid Patterns were traced from her actual metal sections used to make the flower. Stiegler forged a stem with square tenon. This tenon fits into holes (shown on the patterns) with same diameter as the width of the tenon. The tenon's edges and shoulder were rounded by filing. Each section was snipped out of 20 ga. sheet steel and all sharp edges filed smooth. Stiegler uses a hammer that has a sharpened peen to create lines on each section, seen at left. Sections were recessed around hole area with a ball punch creating a ball-detent, then annealed to prevent splitting around the tenon. The three bottom sepals were fitted first, then the middle petals and finally the top petal also called the lip. After laying each section over the tenon, she used a monkey tool to seat them. Then peened over the tenon creating a tight fit.