The Making of Lachesis

I decided to make my Fate the middle Aspect: sophisticated yet simple.  I started with a poor condition Sundance (as most custom ponies begin-poor condition Sundances seem to proliferate), and tried a new silver spray paint on her.  Luckily, the paint clung well, but it tended to pool at the pony's nose (I hung her from a tree to dry, nose down).  I was going to start over with another pony, but I wanted the shy Sundance pose, and the only other one I had like that was an Applejack (which I destroyed by using the ever sticky Testors enamel paint).  I stuck with my original "victim" and gave her some gold eyes with tiny Swarovski crystals inside.

I intended to make Fate's symbol in Twice as Fancy form, with spider webs covering her body, but when I finished the one web, I liked it and glued in a craft store spider, completing the effect.   Lachesis is the only one of my custom ponies with a single side symbol.  If I ever get a crummy condition Sweetheart Sister pose pony, I might make the younger Aspect of Fate, in which case I will put the same spider symbol on the pony's nose, and if I make Atropos, her symbol will be on the rear, the opposite side as Lachesis'.

This pony's hair was the most difficult part of her creation.  It was my first encounter with RIT dye, and not an entirely good one, at that.  I tried to make Lachesis' hair midnight black (although that would not have been in keeping with Niobe's hair from the book, it would have gone well with the symbol coloration), but ended up with a terrible mess!  The black dye, when dried, made the hair stiff and difficult to comb.  When I did comb it, flecks of dye combed out of the hair onto the comb and ended up all over my hands.  I desperately tried to rinse the hair to make it more pliable, but ended up with a stream of black dye oozing off the hair.  I left the pony sitting in a bowl, drying, each time I attempted to rinse the dye.  Finally, I decided to rinse it until it stopped coming out, and when I did so, the hair came out the deep reddish brown that it is now.  It is soft and silky, and easily combed.