Forest Floor - Part 2

I found this photo while googling and it captured the feeling I wanted for my challenge piece.  It looks like it was taken by ephenA (I'm not sure of blog protocol, but I wanted to be sure the actual photographer got credit).

I think I did pretty well at matching the yarn to the photo and the clay mixes to the yarn.  I'm pretty happy with it, anyway.  Next step, smashed ikat...

...and the final cane:

Phew!  I'm beat--on to the beads tomorrow....