I made this piece a while back, never got around to posting it. It is 10 cm in diameter, 4 inch. This was a totally unplanned piece, I started with basting the butterfly (a scrap of printed fabric) on my background fabric and embroidered the pink bush under it, and some grass, and then I wanted a tree. To fill up the space between I decided on a sunset.
The tree is lines of whipped backstitch in a fingering weight wool, this gives a lovely rough and matte effect. I then decided that the butterfly was too flat, and seemed to be behind the pink bush instead of in the foreground, so I fussy cut another of the same butterfly and made a patch with some backing fabric and a lot of overcasting.
I really love the end result, I think the piece has a nice variety in textures and a certain depth. I am still really happy with how the sky turned out, that was a lot of work but totally worth it











