You can never have enough...

[Oh_hunnihunni]

One of the brooches I played with over the weekend used some of the silk and wool pieces I inherited from my Mum. There were some really small knitted squares in there and I discovered stitching one into a crumpled mass suggested moss rather well, and even more so with some tails of a stiffer yarn left proud to suggest the flower stems (do mosses have flower stems or are those seed heads?), either way it works for me. Some of her pale silks have frayed beautifully too and looking at the piece made me think of your fluffy tui.

Amazing what we can get away with, sometimes all we need to do is just suggest with a bit of texture and let the viewer jump to the right conclusion!