This is one of two projects that I’m entering into our local Handweavers and Handspinners Guild. It’s called Silk Season. 100% silk, with all colors but red and black being my hand-reeled silk. I apologize for the weirdly blurry pictures; the red was driving the camera crazy.
Many of the tiny kegos have lost their hairiness and more than doubled in size. And they’re chewing their leaves into lace!
When you need to move a tiny kego from place to place, like when you give them new leaves and need to get them off of the old ones… a paintbrush is the best tool.
Wow, that was fast! I took the Bombyx mori eggs out of cold storage on the 17th. Their typical time to hatch is 10 to 14 days. Apparently, there were some who didn’t read the manual!
Yaaay! I’ve got my new silk website, WORMSPIT.COM up and running! Y’all check it out!
The brocade project I’m going to enter in the Dallas Handspinners and Handweavers Guild. It’ll be two mulberry bushes like this one (one on the other end, mirroring this) and a quote from Emily Dickinson, “A little madness ** in the Spring” with a silkworm, a moth, and a cocoon in the spot where the […]
This silk is dyed for a couple of different projects – the top row is stuff that I’m trading, along with some cocoons, to someone who is going to embroider my Oak King into a kerchief for me. The bottom row is the silk for that Oak King.
Well, it’s That Time!