The first is to make a cloth shell-paste four layers of cotton cloth evenly together, and then paste various colors of silk cloth on the base cloth to make a flat and solid cloth shell; Next, make petals. Generally speaking, regardless of the size, the petals of Jingxi hydrangea are 12 petals and one ball.

Second, embroider leaves. This step is the most important. Generally, the smaller the hydrangea pattern, the simpler it is, and the larger the hydrangea pattern, the more complex and vivid it is. According to legend, there is a saying that "except for the middle four petals, the rest require that the upper four petals must pick birds and the lower four petals must be animals". For the hydrangea pattern with a diameter less than 6 cm, every woman in the old street can basically draw it herself. But if the diameter is more than 8 cm, such as 12 cm, 20 cm or even 1 m or 2 m, what patterns should be embroidered and how to match the colors on the patterns should be drawn by people who are good at drawing first, and then copied by others after matching the colors.

Step 3, make the triangular shuttle ball valve body. In the past, the fillers in hydrangea were mostly mung beans, millet, cottonseed or chaff, which made hydrangea have a certain weight and were suitable for throwing. At the same time, it also means throwing seeds of friendship and love at each other, or indicating that love is as long as mung beans. I don't know when the hydrangeas on Jiuzhou Old Street were planted with old cotton. Later, because it was unsanitary and easy to get wet, it was filled with sawdust that was not easy to absorb water.

The last step is to sew the concentrated triangular shuttle valve body into a ball from tip to tip, and decorate it with small ornaments such as beads and ribbons, and a delicate hydrangea is made.