It’s been 5 years since the original idea of creating a wire crochet butterfly installation crossed my mind. Part of a brainstorming session with my friend Tracy in San Diego about the “Rites of Passage” theme for a festival the next year. Thus began the crochet chapter of my life. A couple tips from SarahContinue reading “Collaboration”
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Butterfly Rainforest – More Progress to Report
Happily, there is a lot of progress to report today! Still living and posting through my smart phone so apologies for typos and formatting issues that are likely to happen. I’ve also blown through the wifi data plan here at the house so thankfully my SIM card plan has unlimited data on the weekends! Yay!Continue reading “Butterfly Rainforest – More Progress to Report”
A Creative Type with Patience
Does one’s art bring out traits otherwise hidden or unattainable in other areas of our lives? Each day as I work in the Cairns Botanic Gardens Visitor’s Centre I hear the word patience in regards to my work. Never would I ever describe myself as a patient person. But those who stop to see meContinue reading “A Creative Type with Patience”
Uninterrupted Work
It has been such a luxury to have days and days in a row of uninterrupted time to just work on my Butterfly Rainforest! Each day brings such a huge amount of progress it leaves me so much to look forward the next day. While the photos don’t look like I’ve made much progress, actualContinue reading “Uninterrupted Work”
Rainforest Butterfly: Flight Prep – Lots of Progress
Great progress has been made on various designs and the size of other pieces: Pink Flowered Evodia Tree base 12″of 22 Gauge Green Colored Copper Wire The original plan I had in mind to create the pink poofs of flowers for the pink flowered evodia, the preferred tree of the Ulysses Butterfly, was not the bestContinue reading “Rainforest Butterfly: Flight Prep – Lots of Progress”
Calabao Construction
The Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants website has been extremely helpful for obtaining scientific accuracy in my creation of the crocheted Calabao. The Calabao is a preferred food plant for the larvae of the Green Spotted Triangle Butterfly. Prototypes, mistakes, and final designs for the Calabao flower emerging from the ends. Each flower is approximately 40Continue reading “Calabao Construction”
Knit Artist Saki Chikaraishi
Part of the Cosmic Girls Exhibition in the Marunouchi House across from Tokyo Station is a fun knit & crochet exhibition by Saki Chikaraishi. Check out this huge Earth installation piece complete with satellites orbiting: A satellite complete with it’s solar panel. Wire holds the shape of this item as it orbits the large knitContinue reading “Knit Artist Saki Chikaraishi”