Wednesday, February 11, 2026

An army of goldwork frogs and a single robin

Last fall I took a class from Maria Clara Warschuer. It was a goldwork robin and was so much fun to do that I looked up her pattern for her frog in Inspirations magazine (#124). It is called Rana and worked in shades of green. I decided that since I love to look at poison arrow frogs becuase of the wonderful colors, I would create my own colorful batch of frogs. I went to my stash of colored purls and bullions to see what I had. Turns out that I have more than enough colors to make a huge army of frogs - who can resist purchasing assortments of colors from time to time. I ended up chooseing six colors. Each frog takes 2 colors - one for the body and one for the back. I used Clara's design for the back of the blue frog but played with other designs for the other five. I put pin backs on them so I can wear a cluster on a jacket.