"In the Garden" At last I think it's done

It has only taken six weeks to finish Rice's Hoodie. You may remember that she sent me a sweatshirt that she dyed this delicious lime green (OK the photo makes it look yellow, but I assure you it's lime) I would have kept it but 1. I said I would work on it and then send it back to her and 2. I can't get my fat butt, sorry, ample frame into it. oh heck, to bad for me. Well anyway my usual way of working is to just dive in and say to a piece "speak to me" and usually does, but this time after getting an initial idea, which I posted earlier, thinking that what I would do would be to machine embroider vines down the front, over the shoulder then up the hood portion. After that stamp leaves with Lumiere paint and then hand embroider flowers here and there to finish it. Well I scraped that idea because the machine embroidery would distort the fabric, IMHO. I put it away for a week. took it out and thought about it some more, put it back, you get the idea. Well I finally got around to it and hand embroidered the vines, then added some beaded vines. It's a must there has to be beads, it screamed for beads. Then I found this batik fabric that ran the colors of the rainbow with lime and orange, red, yellow, purple, and more green which is used to fashion leaves. After scrounging in the laundry room for some used dryer sheets that I used as backing so that I could simply turn them inside out after stitching I was on a roll. Added bronze floss down the center of each leaf and sewed them on using itty bitty primary colored buttons to anchor them. Then I had a skinny friend try it on. The *&#@ thing won't fit me. Then put it way again. Off I went and made the cuff bracelet for a little diversion. Then back to the task at hand. Made a little voodoo doll pin, after all it's for Rice (that's another story) which is pined on the place where I cut out the emblem that use to be there. Added some silk ribbon leaves and ties just because I felt like it and three more ribbon ties on the sleeve opposite the side with the vines for balance. I've promised myself that I will mail it back to her on Monday. Otherwise I know I'll pull it out and do more stuff to it, but I have to leave room for her to Journal on it or she may send it off to someone else to add their touch to it.