Paper bees

 

The thread that I used to create the bee colours and the printing ink were my only non garden resources that I used for the project.  

I was determined to use my textured home-made wisteria paper.  The fuzzy thread texture was created by stitching a layered herringbone stitch in two colours and then cutting through the centre.  My concern here though was the neatness of the image and I decided to stitch along the outlines of the print to emphasize it.  

The paper was more holey than I had realised and this caused some threading problems which I addressed by adding patches to the back of the bees. 

I liked the soft texture that the close embroidered thread offered.  It gave a tactile effect that invited touch.