How do I make fabric roses?

How should I breed roses to make a certain color?

• I don't know if breed is the correct term but here's my question. I would like to breed blue roses, I know sounds kind of ridiculous. I know that you can't make blue because its a primary color. I swear to Bob my friend has light purple roses but I asked myself. If there can be purple roses, wouldn't blue roses & red roses have to be cross bred ? Then, I found myself in a predicament. -___- I figured if there's a purple rose, how did it become purple?There must be some type of blue rose or indigo? Anyways, how would I breed blue roses &nd with what types of roses?

• Answer:

  When roses first bloom in the spring, it's time to begin breeding them. Cross pollinating produces hybrids that can combine the best traits of both parents while minimizing the worst. Select two roses for the parents. One will supply the pollen, the other the seeds. Collect pollen in the early morning or evening, when the air is still. Find a bud that is unfurling but not yet open. Cut off a 2-inch stem. Gently pull off all the petals and sepals, which are the green leaves at the base. Invert and insert the yellow stamens and pollen sacs into an old film canister or cup. Dry at room temperature for 12 to 24 hours Collect seed, find a just-opening bud on the seed parent. Hold it carefully by the sepals or base of the bloom. Remove the petals leaving the sepals. Cut off the tall stamens with nail scissors. Remove the pollen sacs. Cut a circle around the short stigmas in the center of the flower. Check stigmas after 12 hours. They will produce a clear sticky fluid within 12 to 24 hours. Cross Pollinate : Record all pollination in a notebook, the date, seed parent first x pollen parent second, a.m. or p.m. Dust the sticky stigmas with the pollen twice a day for two days, using the stem as a handle. Get all the pollen out of the cup with a cotton swab, using a clean swab each time. Write the pollen parent and the date in indelible ink on a label and tape it to the peduncle, the stem below the bud. Harvest hips when the peduncle turns brown and dries out in about three months. Put hips in ziplock bags clearly marked with the cross code in indelible ink. Store in a refrigerator. Collect seeds from the same cross by cutting hips open with a sharp knife. Clean the pulp from the seeds. Prevent mold by dipping seeds in a solution of 1/2 tsp. of 50 percent captan to 1 pint water. Store in the marked baggie wrapped in a paper towel moistened with the captan solution. Keep in the coldest part of a refrigerator.Plant seeds in December in Southern California; indoors in colder zones. Expect only 25 percent to germinate. If any seedlings display unusual colors or shapes, consult a rose society, or nursery about commercial production