I like chain stitch. I also like making pictures better than rows of stitching.
The big plant is mostly open chain stitch, tapering down to "regular" chain stitch. I was thinking of the charming horsetails plant, but the little plants look as much like asparagus spears as horsetails. They are "magic chain stitch" where you thread the needle with two colors and use them alternately.
The big plant was originally intended to have flowers, but it turned into a slightly different plant than my idea. Not a flower plant. It probably reproduces with spores.
Take a Stitch Tuesday on Pintangle: Chain Stitch
Horsetail (Equisetum) from the trip two weeks ago:
Special lizard bonus - I was hoping for a snake, and got a lizard! I was SO excited. The lizard escape technique is to dash madly for about a foot, and freeze unblinking as the hiker peers at you and takes pictures.
(We did see several snakes and a second lizard.)
2 comments:
They look like glasswort! (Salicornia.)
A *lot*.
http://domesticfuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Salicornia_virginica3.jpg
Oh, most excellent! Scientific names make things even better.
BUT - a common name including "wort" is even more satisfactory. :)
And I feel quite clever for intuiting an almost real plant.
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