Postcard: July 22

Beetles wear the prettiest outfits.

I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week and saw their show Sleeping Beauties. I was taken by all the embroidery and beading on the garments, and I have spent the last week fixated on beetles (not the first time after my Beetle Magic sweater a few years ago). But when I tried to gather embroidery thread for stitching, I realized that there are so many colors of beetles, and each is made up of so many colors, that I have spent free time with week staring at beetle photos and trying to pick out the actual colors. Here are two of my favorite so far.

I don’t actually have a plan for what happens with these colors, but something will occur to me sooner or later. So far I have been looking for these colors in my embroidery floss and my spinning fibers. Let me know if you have gorgeously colorful insects that you admire. I am always looking for new specimens for my collection.

If you are curious, here are a few of the garments that inspired me.

Sleeping Beauties: Insect edition

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