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Anoplocnemis curvipes, a species of sap-sucking insect native to sub-saharan Africa. Considered a major agricultural pest.

Photo: Bart Wursten

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Cape Crow (Corvus capensis) © Bart Wursten

It hatches from black, common, dry, gruff, open, other, rasping, slender, slim, small, typical, variable, and wide eggs.

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Hi everyone, I’d like to introduce Festival. My “to make” queue is very long, but my Mum requested a travelling companion to take on a trip to India, and of course, mum comes first.

Festival is ready to go!

He’s kind of a mashup of some of my favourite animals. So that makes him a Tricerapangolopant.

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Triceratops (photo by Colby Stopa on flickr).

Pangolin in the Democratic Republic of Congo (photo by Bart Wursten on flickr).

Elephants painted for the Elephant Festival in Jaipur (photo by Anne Roberts on flickr).

I love the colourful decoration on the elephants at the Jaipur festival! I wanted to try and recreate something of that joyfulness and vibrancy but my embroidery skills are laughable. I can get a French knot right about 1 time in 3, and when I have to switch to a point tapestry needle (instead of a rounded end) to work through tough bits of crochet I stab myself about every 5 minutes when I’m not losing the needle. All the same, I had to get my partner to give me approval to stop decorating Festival so I could send him off in time.

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“Hi, I’m Festival!”

“Sometimes I blow my own trumpet.” (Mouth and 2nd part of trunk tip made separately and stitched on.)

Scales done with crocodile stitch. (See previous blog post for info.) They were made as separate piece and sewn on.

View underneath. His legs were stitched on after adding the scales. Not sure whether it would have been better before.

All the white embroidery is glow in the dark. (Gotta have some glow at a festival.)

I messed up the very last grey scale by his neck, but it’s mostly hidden.

The scales can be made smaller, but they start to lose their definition. So we stuck with regular size.

A better look at his swishy tail.

Mum, her friend, and Festival will be travelling to India on Friday. Have a lovely time, all! Send us some pics. x

– Zola

P.S. Find out how to do crocodile stitch here.

Festival The Tricerapangolophant Hi everyone, I'd like to introduce Festival. My "to make" queue is very long, but my Mum requested a travelling companion to take on a trip to India, and of course, mum comes first.

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Bart Wursten