landscape lines and bees that like shiny

on this allotment there is obviously something that the bees are attracted to

perhaps it is the shiny gilding flakes

or that clump of orange woolly bush on the landscape

this is quite a close up shot of the gilding flakes on hand dyed silk

it hardly resembles silk at such close range ... but has a lovely sheen in "real life"

when layering up my base initially I used some paper from a magazine

that had a bee and a hive and these words by Albert Enstein

 

"in the middle of difficulty ... lies opportunity"

I had no preconception of how this little piece would turn out

I just added stitch and things as it felt right

 

as it turned out I like the landscape lines of stitch

with the three rows of running stitches ... matching the bee

 

I didn't plan it ... I noticed it afterwards

at the bottom I used daisy stitches in bronze metallic

to enhance the tones in the chiffons, silks and gilding flakes

 

stitches can be added to either enhance or disguise areas of work

tomorrow - a sunny corner ... the sunflower allotment
Friday ... materials for the tutorial
Saturday ... the tutorial