I got the inspiration for this from here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/andredekesel/17867650988
As all the insects in this series it is 5” by 5” in size, woven on my Mirrix Chloe loom at dent 12, using Faro wool yarn.
I am attaching two photos. One of them is the final one. The other one is before I made a few corrections: I did not like how much black I original wove, and so I ripped it out using a stitch ripper I got as part of an embroidery kit. I moved the sections above the ones I wanted to rip further up and then ripped paying special attention to not damaging the warp threads (risky!). Then I replaced the large black section above the purple with a dark grey. I did not replace some of the black lines further up, resulting in a lighter overall effect.
Them I added a few lighter embroidered lines to the leaf edge and middle and to the sides of legs to increase contrast in sections where the colors were previously too close in value and hard to differentiate.
Overall I really like the effect of these corrections!