Day 31: To date, I have contributed 240 photos to the Burke Herbarium (WTU) database, covering 133 taxa. The most recent addition was Cyathus striatus, also posted here on the 10th. The list keeps growing! And so I can keep a handy record, I decided to slow-stitch the name of each species onto a piece of cloth I dyed lightly with tea and lobster mushrooms. The embroidered list will be wound on a wooden sewing spool if there's room. Where pieces of fabric have to be joined, I've used lazy-daisy flowers and leaves to cover the seam. I add at least one species each day, sometimes two (to make up for the days I occasionally miss). That's about all my eyes can take when working on cloth with a thread count of 40/inch. Right now, I'm working my way through the vascular plants. Then I'll dip into fungi and lichens. I suspect my four-inch hoop isn't wide enough to add "Myriosclerotinia caricis-ampullaceae" all in one go.
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