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A really late-season thread-waisted wasp, Ammophila sp., on wildflowers in my Colorado Springs neighborhood. October 5, 2018.
In this picture, I use a knitting needle size US1 to make the loops at the beginning.
I started with scrap thread that was about 30 to 32 inches in length.
Making rings might be a good use for any the scrap you might have!
Beta illustration for the cover of an A4 folder which will containing material for an upcoming perfomance under the title "upside down thread" by the art team "CMD"
At an auction I found a big bag full of colour coordinated sewing threads. Of course, I had to get them because of the wonderful colour combos!
Carol Ann Carter
Bundle Painting
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Mixed media construction
On loan from The Art of Emprise, Emprise Bank
I'm attempting to re-visit a photograph I did almost twenty years ago when I first got into large format photography.
Well before my time, Ansel Adams photographed scissors and thread. Inspired by his photo, and desperate for a subject to learn to focus with, I photographed my grandmother's sewing shears using a Bender 4x5 camera and a Fujinon 150mm lens (a "normal lens" for a 4x5, roughly equivalent to a 50mm on a 35mm camera).
I've never been 100% happy with the composition, though I found I liked mine better than the one Adams did. (A good sign! You're supposed to like your own work!)
After posting the original 4x5 negative scan on 1x.com, I posted it for critique and received a good deal of useful feedback. This set is my first attempt at using the feedback to make a better photo.
The Wiss scissors are the same ones I used before: my grandmother's shears. The left handed Ghingers are mine.
I have a couple more I made during this session I may upload, but these are the ones that showed any real promise. These are all digital photos, though if I find a really good combination I may re-visit it with 4x5 film.
If you have any feedback on these, please let me know: What would you do differently? Why? What do you like or dislike about the subject, composition, lighting, etc? And most important: Would you hang a large print of this on your own wall?
Trying to achieve the smallest possible macro shot with my point and shoot!
This is a shot at needle eyes one threaded with very fine cotton and one with woollen yarn!
Hand held
ANSH Scavenger#1 - The smallest possible macro shot with the equipment you have now
1. Holy Scrap Quilt, Batman!, 2. Critter Charms, 3. Embroidery thread egg, 4. Old Wooden Spools of Thread, 5. ✄ ✄ ✄ How€ver to nOt loSe tHe thRead of a cOnversaTioN ☺☺☺, 6. Sewing thread hues, 7. Eye of a needle, 8. Implements of Construction, 9. Kimono Girl, sewing caddy., 10. Mini sewing room, 11. flickr.com/photos/95365982@N00/470093007/, 12. Termeh, 13. Scissors14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
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Threads of Thought Lesson 14 Watercolor shapes & stencils. I made a bunch of shapes on copy paper. The girls selected theirs and I traced on a lightbox to watercolor paper. It was really thick so I cut them out. I also did some faces on the very small pieces. The eldest did watercolor and splatters on hers. On the back we did watercolor pencils. I did some acrylic paint shapes and they wrote their words on those. We used letter tape to close the stencils (I did not use an xacto knife with two little ones bumping around). We hung them from embroidery hoops and put beads on the bottom for weights to make our Threads of Though mobiles.