Fractals to color

These aren't true fractals, but approximations because there are limits to what can be drawn and still colored. The top one is a Apollonian Gasket. Since it starts on a triad, a color wheel seemed obvious. The bottom one is the very well known Sierpinski Sieve. Since it's a triangle, it tessellates naturally, so that's what I did with my colored version. Here are blanks to color. I'm considering putting the Apollonian Gasket color wheel on a shirt at Cafe Press or Zazzle.
Click on the images for larger versions.

I made all my Amazon Kindle e-booklets available for borrowing if you're a Prime member. Just go to Amazon and search for Shala Kerrigan. There is one on yeast bread making, one on how to make brick stitch earrings, one of knitting or beading alphabet patterns and one that's just a few of The Amazing Turnip Girl's favorite recipes with her tips.

Pretty Cauliflower Fractals

This weekend we went to one of the local farmer's markets and the hardware store. At the market we found these gorgeous fractal cauliflowers. Click on images to see larger versions.

Resized, but otherwise unretouched. They are just that gorgeous. Then I did retouch some, increased the contrast, greyscaled then added color layers.

Here's a box I made with one of the psychedelic recolored versions.

At the hardware store, I needed bolt cutters for my thick copper wire. So I picked up a pair of bolt cutters. Turnip Girl made herself a very pretty scarf on big needles, and wanted to make herself a pair of big hardwood needles so we also got her some oak dowels 3/8 inch. Then we found out that 1/4 inch copper couplers fit perfectly on them. So she got those for the ends. She'll be making herself a pair of needles this week.

This is the scarf she made, the glove/mitts were made by Shelane Adu who was selling at the market. I swear, that snow cone is NOT poison and that she actually really enjoyed it. It was lime and mango, and she ate the whole thing. 

The shirt is from Threadless.

Fractals

I love fractals. I recently posted a project on BellaOnline.com for a pair of seed bead fractal earrings.
One of my favorites is a Sierpinski sieve. There is also a square version called a Sierpinski carpet.
Anyway.. on to the printable. I drew the carpet first,then built the box out of the carpet tiles, so it's an off size to most of my templates. I hope you like it.


As usual, with the printable, click on the images for the full sized version.

Seed Bead Fractal Earrings

Made with size 15 seed beads. You can find a tutorial for making them here.
Along with this happy little animation.


They were inspired by watching the Nova episode "Hunting the Hidden Dimension" for the second time last night with my husband. I love Nova. He *really* loves Nova. It's probably our favorite show. You can watch the episode here if you're interested.
The Elegant Universe was one we recorded when it first came out, E was about 7 I think? She watched it over and over. She just loved it.