This block has been the biggest challenge I have given myself since I began crazy quilting. Stumpwork itself is by far the most challenging of crazy quilting techniques, and I would never have guessed that two years after I began to crazy quilt, I would be tackling this type of embroidery. The first photo is Gerry's block with Arlene, Karrin and my contribution. The next photo is my work which tells a story, a true story about a sick bee. Sometime in the 1980s, my mum was out in the country picking wild blackberries and spotted a bee in obvious distress resting on a leaf. She watched it for a while and then placed a blossom next to it on the leaf hoping it could gain a little nourishment. A little later mum said it was able to fly off, but before it went very far, it made a u-turn, flew back and landed on mum's hand as a gesture of appreciation, it rested for a moment and then flew off. 
Real blackberry fruit and blossoms.
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