In the Clearing - Final - "The Park"

This didn't take much to finish.
Yes, I changed the name again.
It reminded me of the park across from my childhood home. In reality it isn't wasn't that expansive but to a child it felt that way. (And of course there were no deer in the middle of the city.)

All that was necessary to do this morning was to add the ground. I released the dark trees to have them sit over the piece. While it's difficult to see in the photo, they now are separated from the rest not only by their colour but their position.
A little "sketching" to fasten and to add "shrubbery" and this piece is finished.
I'm yet undecided on the edge finish but I'm thinking it will handle a proper binding in keeping with the heavy vertical of the trees.

( I still think the deer/wolves or the Velociraptors would have been fun!!!!😀 )

In The Clearing - Day 6

Before I added more of the large trees I wanted to pay homage to the beech. It hangs on to its leaves till spring and often gives a shot of colour in midwinter forests. I wanted it tucked in and behind the large trees.

Rather than thread work, I carefully cut and applied slivers of cloth, and then attached leaves individually. Slow work but I think it was effective.

Then the last of the giants, and the trees were done.

In the Clearing - Day 5

Four hours of trees.
What can I say?

I love trees.

Land Before Time - Day 4 and Time to Rename This = In the Clearing

I wanted to settle the animal component once and for all. Why include them at all?
It adds a "life" component and also provides a focus, a story, as hubby would say.
I agreed the stag and wolf combination was a little aggressive so I went searching some more.
( But Hey! Remember the original was Velociraptors! )

By cutting and pasting I assembled a peaceful vignette, a fawn and doe.

Transferred over to fusible backed material, they are in place. I had concerns for the fragile nature of their legs so I caged them with netting as a protection.

There is a lot more to be done here, but to move forward I needed to locate them.

I also did some work on the crown, filling it out with finer branches. This is thread work. And I added some under-story trees. There will be more to this mid ground work but it's a short day today.

Land Before Time - Day 3 (Finally remembered the name of the movie)

The background is complete.
It took another 6+ hours of tiny stitching.

Tomorrow,......... some wildlife?
This was what I was thinking.......

Maybe, too much.