a la grub:
making tags
and
sending packages:
downtown
at sunset
after
a lecture
at the
smithsonian:
these were
trials for
the wall of yarn.
not sure
how
i feel about it...
they are
real insects
i sewed onto
the knitted
squares:
i also studied
all weekend
but
that's
no fun
to photo
graph.
xo
'til monday.
16 comments:
Hey---is one of those sewn insects a sprucewood beetle??
What was the lecture?
I love your beautiful and whimsical tags.
r.
...and your lettering would make a great computer font.
r.
real insects???????!!!!!!!!!
I love the tags!
what a cute package you are putting together....
love the insects!
love the incorporated insects, very cool. especially the contrast between the green wool and the orangey beetles (i may be a forestry librarian but i'm no entomologist!) do you know this work? http://www.textilemuseum.ca/exhibitions_terriblebeauty.html
oops, that link should be
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/exhibitions_terriblebeauty.html
~ it's a different
longhorn beetle
~ it was a lecture
by EO Wilson...
~ thanks for the
compliments
on the tags!
~ wow amy,
i love the link!
Yum waffles. And yum to that bright green yarn, I love it. I am also loving your lovely tags. You were a busy bee this weekend!
Okay, REAL insects?!? AAAAUUUUUUUuuuuuggggghhhhh (that is the sound of me running away. Please pick up my yarn and needles and post them to me at the other side of the room).
LOVE your bugs on the green and also your tags.
i am glad i hadn't read your blog in a few days so i was thoroughly surprised by your packages!! hee!!
bugs + green yarn!!! *sigh* so wonderful.
that pic of the sky sorta looks like a mushroom cloud...it scared me for a minute!
From breakfast to beetles - love it all!
cheers, gracia
HEY! It's a sprucewood beetle!! Eero told me you guys collected these when you visited. They make me quiver, even when they're sewn into lovely squares.
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