Some final steps...

and my PROCESS piece will be ready for quilting.  I added some hand embroidery to represent wheat.

I want to add some dimensional work so I attempted to create cedar branches with stitchery.  I photocopied a branch I picked from a local cedar tree so that I had a sample of how the branch should look.

I free motioned the cedar boughs onto a wash away stabilizer called "Wash 'n Gone".

Now that three boughs are stitched, I need to wash away the stabilizer.  In order to keep the branches from becoming a jumbled mess of thread, I have had to pin each of the needles to a styrofoam board.  I used left over meat trays from the butcher.

I'll add some more embroidery after I see how the boughs look.  Whew! Almost there.