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”
Tag Archives: Wire Crochet
Early Build Days
Thank You to everyone who patiently reads through my progress reports as I am creating all posts with my smartphone. I suspect there are formatting issues I’d be twitching to fix if I had my laptop! This has been a busy build week with many parts and pieces looking like other objects on their wayContinue reading “Early Build Days”
Day 2 – Settling into the Residency House
A rainy day here in tropical Cairns, perfect for unpacking and settling into the Residency House: That huge 20Kg box of supplies I’ve carried all over the Pacific Ocean is finally unpacked, permanently. The strong dishpack box held up surprisingly well through multiple flights on multiple airlines until it got wet in the rainContinue reading “Day 2 – Settling into the Residency House”
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”
Heavy Metal Crochet Work – Tip #1
16 Gauge Colored Copper Wire moving into 20 Gauge. Heavy Metal start to the Spur Mahogany tree trunk. Using a USK/10.5 crochet hook, 6.5MM. Wire Crochet Tip #1 – Take several breaks as you work the wire to reduce the chance of stress injuries!
Purple Fade: Weather Vessel Update 1
It’s been almost a month since I created the experiment, Weather Vessel, to watch the effects the outdoors would have on various colored wire crochet work. I had high hopes the color would last for at least 6 months or so before there was fading. Unfortunately, some changes are quite noticeable already! The DarkContinue reading “Purple Fade: Weather Vessel Update 1”
Weather Vessel
Crochet work involves a lot of sitting, which leads to thinking, which inevitably leads to trouble. The deep shattering realization that there are no pink butterflies eventually brought me around to what will I do when I have finished the Butterfly Flight Prep installation piece? This trouble had me creating this multicolored vessel as stepContinue reading “Weather Vessel”