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Finished up my top this afternoon. Phew! Now for the quilting. I'm thinking straight vertical lines.
What species of spider makes this web?? I call them zig-zag spiders because of the patterns in the web.
We get a number of these spiders in our yard every year. They love making their webs outside of obscure objects where they can easily hide. The web is exceedingly sticky; the spider is a uniform dark grey.
I have never managed to get a decent picture of the actual spider; when I drop a fly on the web, the spider quickly scrambles out, grabs the prey, and races back out of sight. They are roughly the size of common backyard wolf spiders, and are a very plain dark-grey color, but I've never been able to get a more detailed look than that!
Later note: based on BugGuide.net notes, I believe the spider is Badumna longinqua (Brown House Spider). If so, it is not exactly aptly named; she requires direct sun for her nesting sites... I've never seen one indoors.
Alexander Wu, piano, Francisco Roldán, guitar, Danny Mallon, percussion and Hilliard Green, bass
Alexander Wu, piano, Francisco Roldán, guitar, Danny Mallon, percussion and Hilliard Green, bass
I was on my morning walk with Humppa today and came across another dog owner from the neighbourhood. While the dogs were having their own sniffversation, we got to talking.
The lady told me that there are really wild skidmarks just around a corner -- a car had apparently gone completely out of control and been all over the place.
So I go up the hill and to the corner and see this wild path the car had taken.
Well, it was slippery but these tracks were strange -- they were all over the place but orderly, and, they was no real signs of skidding. Then I realized that there was a repeatable pattern -- the tire marks swerved every time there was a mail box at the side of the road.
The "skidder" had been the newspaper delivery guy driving through the early morning snow in a zigzag pattern to drop the paper into every mailbox.
Hooray for powers of deduction.
All done! Top fabrics from canadianquiltshop.com, backing is an Ikea duvet cover. Binding is Painter's Canvas in Lime.
This hollowed out globe ornament was turned from English holly, redwood burl, and gaboon ebony. I created the zigzag effect using the same method used in the pepper mill and salad bowls previously shown.
ZigZag flower pot by Spanish designers Ana Mir and Emili Padró of Emiliana Design Studio. The pieces making up the ZigZag collection are inspired in angular geometrical lines. The volumetric play of sombre profiles, together with the generous size of the pieces, gives them an almost totemic appearance.
The particular use of materials like rope, porcelain or aluminium rods, applied to crafts techniques used in their manufacture also provides a differentiating added value to the collection.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.