I took the photo of a valley filled with bare winter trees on a recent walk. I've always loved the sight of naked trees reaching their branches up to the sky, but it's a rare sight here in NZ because so many of our native trees stay green all year long. Those bare branches inspired some embroidery with white silk thread that has the impression of a print, but when you look closely, each tree is slightly different.
While I was working on those stitches, I remembered a similar project in my copy of Lena Corwin's beautiful book, Printing By Hand. She shows how to make a simple stencil on a wall and I've often thought that branch print would look great in our kitchen. Another project to add to the list.
