Wow was this hard work!
I have been looking at a lot of pieces which have a beautiful texture to the surface lately and wanted to add some of this to my work.
I stitched into the backing piece with long shaded stitches similar to the knits I have been experimenting with and then added some extremely fiddly french knots to the paper pieces which are added on top.
I really like the subtlety of the marks, especially the knots as they add a nice texture to the piece and reconnect me with my textile background. I think this piece needs more work, its extremely delicate work, trying not to get the yarn tangled into the cut pieces and being careful not to puncture the paper too close together else it will tear.
I also don’t like that you can see the holes in the paper (shown in the image above on the left) from the long stitches. The yarn needs to be thicker, or a different technique used to avoid this.
Bryoney Fawn 