I think it's great. It gave me a reason to learn to make leaves! I made a few, and would like to make a few more before sending them to her. I'll be sure to check it out once there. It also inspired me to make a few types of flowers, just for the heck of it. Perhaps I can attatch them to future projects. The leaves were fun to make, after I figured it all out.

hi! sorry i missed this.. haven't been online much lately. too busy workin on my tree! but it looks like you found my website :)

i'm definitely still in need of help making leaves. i've moved on to the construction of the tree, which is turning out to be very time consuming indeed, so i'm in need of help on the leaf-creation side of things more than ever.

i'm also hosting a crochet-a-leaf workshop on june 27.. might be kind of unnecessary for those in this tribe, since you already know how to crochet, but please stop by if you'd like to! details are on my website.

thanks for the interest!!

hi again all! creating a moop-free sculpture has been a huge, huge focus of the design of this piece. check out this blog entry from the projects' early days: treeundone.livejournal.com/3672.html my contact at burning man suggested that i try this this experiment. i attached the leaves to the branch in several different ways, and none of them came off the branch at 70mph winds.

all the leaves are wound into 'twigs'. example here: picasaweb.google.com/pokiedo...9476370t

the tail of the first leaf of the twig is twisted into wire, then tied to the second leaf's tail, and then both tails are twisted in the wire, then the third, etc. each leaf ends up being tied to the wired in at least two places. the wire then gets wound around the actual branches of the tree.

acrylic yarn is very strong, and if people tug at their leaf too hard, it is more likely that they will pull off a branch of the tree before the yarn breaks. a stoned girl at precompression proved this for me. i had an example branch nailed on the wall at precom, and invited people to unravel some leaves. being stoned or maybe just out of it, one gal pulled out her leaf and then just kept pulling.. yanking, and tugging *really* hard. i got up from my seat and went over to stop her, but before i could the whole branch came flying off the wall. it was funny!

anyways... i'm not saying this because i'm trying to convince you to make me leaves! ha ha.. no no! i just really want the burner community to be comfortable with my project. i'd hate to be the sculpture that sets off everyone's red-moop-flags in their heads, so i'm taking every effort to cover my bases, moop-wise, and to get the word out that i'm doing everything i can do to prevent one piece of yarn from hitting the ground :)