07 May 2008

Plant cell brooch

I've been browsing Etsy a lot lately, and it inspired me to craft a few projects myself. My first project was making a cross stitch brooch of a stylized plant cell (of my own design). Here are the labeled parts and organelles, with links to descriptions from Cells Alive:



A. Vacuole
B. Chloroplast
C. Nucleus
D. Endoplasmic reticulum
E. Mitochondria
F. Lysosome and Peroxisome
G. Golgi apparatus
H. Cell wall (tan) and plasma membrane (green)

2 comments:

Jessica M. Budke said...

That brooch is super cute! Cross-stitching is tons of fun, but I haven't done any in years now. Do you have a pattern for that little guy? Also the cell is a bit of an odd shape; I am going to guess that it is a spongy mesophyll cell. :)

Amy said...

Thanks Jessica. Sure, spongy mesophyll, I basically free hand drew the outline and it looks sort of like the plant cell diagram in Campbell.