First stumpwork piece - Azami from Junji Ito’s comic Uzumaki

2 hoops plus a teensy bit of stumpwork for the eye - making this was really fun! I thought working in only black and white would be pretty easy, but it was oddly challenging trying to capture Junji Ito’s frenetic, slashing line art style and make it look purposeful instead of messy.

Separating the spiral and the face into two hoops probably wasn’t worth it in terms of the final effect, but it was a fun experiment.