And Then Came Fall

I took a complete detour on that last piece.  I was a little nervous about the trees, and found myself quite smitten by some of the Cranberry Flats photos from last week.  They are very 'fall'.  The grass is yellow and leaves are orange and ochre.  One photo in particular was fairly boring, but I figured it would be pretty enough to stitch.  So... away I went!

Free motion stitching... in this piece, it seemed to go on forever.  There are silvery bushed below the horizon, and trees along the top.  W was surprised that the more I looked, the more colors I saw.  There grasses were yellow, wheat, ochre, lime, peach, rust...  and it was the same in the tree tops.

This suddenly became much less boring than I had anticipated!  I also feel less afraid of trees and will be confident to go back to the commission.  Here it is so far... 

I've begun hand stitching.  See the rusty leaves in the bushes?  In the original scene there were loads of colorful rose bushes - tufts of low shrubby wild roses all over the foreground, full of fruit with very colorful autunm leaves!  I'm excited with how full of texture this will be when it's done.  Can you see the texture develop in this next photo?  ...something about the way the light hits it...

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