Insects — quilling designs

Unfortunately, I'm not having much time for blogging these days, although I do have new pieces to show off. In the meanwhile, I'll try to do some cleaning up and writing overview posts, which I feel may help my readers to find what they need. Today's post is about quilled insects.

When I'm looking back at all those quilled designs I have created, I see that many of them feature insects of different kinds: butterflies, dragonflies, bugs, cockroaches, firebugs, ladybugs, moths, ants, grasshoppers, bees, bumblebees and spiders (well, the spiders are not exactly insects). They are simple and complex, were used for greeting cards, wall decorations, etc. I really hope that my quilling may give you the inspiration for designs of your own, so below you'll find the list of my works that include quilled insects:

Easy-to-make quilled insects

• Very simple butterflies, ladybugs, a snail, a spider and a grasshopper on Rosh Hashanah greeting cards.
• Simple quilled bee and butterfly on a Thank you card with iris flowers.
• Cute and easy-to-make cockroach: Quilled owl on a tree branch.
• Simple moth: Dandelions and raspberries.

Moderately difficult quilled insects

• Firebug on Quilled cyclamen flowers.
• Moth and butterfly on Quilled dog-rose.
• Moth, grasshopper, ladybug: Quilled dandelions and violets.
• Moth and ant: Quilled dandelions.
• Spider and dragonfly: Quilled dragonfly and lily flower.
• Another moth: Quilled thistles and moth.
• Bumble bees on flowers.
• Blue dragonfly on nuphar flowers
• Bee and praying mantis
• Kid's quilling - dragonfly

Difficult-to-make insects

• Yelow butterfly Gonepteryx butterfly (brimestone).
• Quilled blue butterfly (Papilio ulysses).
• Quilled Monarch butterfly.
• Quilled moth on a flower in a fishbowl.
• Moth on Quilled flowers.
• Three-dimensional quilled spider.
• Quilled Swallowtail (Papilio machaon)
• 3D praying mantis

I wish you a joyous and fruitful quilling!