I finished the sheep yesterday. I would have preferred a lighter brown wool background which would have made the legs show up a bit better.
Instead of the called-for white dots on the sheep, I opted to do chain-stitch swirls. Am happy with that choice. Colonial knots were again used for the pink flower 'buds'.
Then we had the photo shoot on the kitchen counter.
and then in their natural habitat (the kitchen table).
We were instructed not to blow the yolk and white out of the eggs - they were raw when drawn. After a few months, they'd just dry up and the yolk would rattle around inside. However stinky gases would also be created. I couldn't put them out when we had Ollie, our last cat, as he liked to bat them around and often would pitch them off the table. They really stunk when they broke - pee you!
These are most of the ones that survived.
One of my former colleagues, Shelley, did an after-school tutorial on drawing them. We had a local supplier of all the materials, Mrs Salmers, who sold her wares in her husband's barber shop in downtown Oshawa. Of course, I had to have 'all the things' and still possess all the dyes and kiskas. I found several step-by-step patterns on the Internet and still have a couple of books on the subject.
Back in the aughts (2000s) Skip, Scooter, and I visited Vegreville Alberta to see the world's second largest Ukrainian Easter egg.
It's 9m (31ft) long and 3 storeys high, weighing over 2 tons. It is a big attraction 100km due east of Edmonton along the Yellowhead Highway in Alberta.
According to Wikipedia it is made of aluminum, and composed of 1108 congruent equilateral triangles, 524 concave hexagons (3-pointed stars), 3,512 visible facets, 6,978 nuts and bolts and 177 internal struts. To me, the most remarkable feature is that it is perfectly balanced to work like a wind vane - rotating depending on the direction of the wind.
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