Another ring in my Culver City neighborhood! It’s on the first California poppy to bloom in my ‘water-wise’ front garden in spring 2014. In this case, the yarn bomb preceded the poppy, as it had been the prototype of my current ring series: acrylic yarn crocheted in a straight piece and sewn onto a circle of up-cycled coat-hanger wire (bent into shape by my husband). The ‘jewel’ is embroidered with a sparkly, light-weight plastic cord.

—Frances