A friend of mine gave me two Atlas cocoons this summer. I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to hatch – and had stuck the aquarium at the back of a shelf, and had nearly forgotten about them. But tonight, wow. She’s SO BIG!!
If you get out to the State Fair, and want to check out my cool premium-winning entries in Creative Arts – the skeins are in Case #40, and the ribbon is in Case #28. They’re both on the back wall – #40 is just to the right of the butter sculpture, #28 is about halfway […]
I put two pieces in the State Fair of Texas – a set of reeled silk skeins, and a tablet-woven silk ribbon. Each of them took a blue ribbon in its category. This is the first time I’ve entered a State Fair; I’m very pleased and excited!
It must have been the moonlight. Either that, or this one moth has some amazingly powerful hoo-hoo juice…
Well, I have learned a LOT about Eri silk! I finally got a chance to play with the cocoons, and am fairly pleased with the results – although I’ve had a few “learning experience” type things that I don’t plan to repeat.
My Eri moths FINALLY started hatching today!
I went out the back door to shake a towel that I’d gotten some debris on… and saw this amazing beautiful argiope spider. She just showed up here… how, I have no idea – she must have just hiked it in.
This exotic-looking face greeted me this evening – I was kind of surprised to see him, because I thought the cocoon would overwinter! It’s an exquisitely beautiful moth, Eupackardia calleta. Click here to see the history of it. The first impression is that it’s just black, but there’s a lot going on color-wise with its […]
My proposal for a tablet weaving class in March of ’05 in San Antonio was accepted – and they’ve even found a gluten-intolerant person to put me up with! I’m very excited about this. It’s so cool to be teaching this stuff; it’s a technique that I really enjoy, but it’s a little on the […]