Artist crochets tiny animals with sewing thread

Artist Lucia Dolgopolova (39) has very dexterous fingers and is about to make micro crochet a big thing. She started making tiny crochet pieces because her life was too busy with bigger projects. The Ukrainian, who lives in Russia, practised with a 0.35-mm needle, the smallest in the world, and the thinnest sewing thread she could find. After many failed attempts, she has now become a master of her art with impressive results, such as teeny tiny animals, birds and even dragons. For her smallest work, a one-millimetre owl, she even split the already very thin sewing thread in half.