Working on Joy

I've been working on a piece to represent the word "joy" for Textile Abstractions, the challenge group I'm a part of, and I'm trying something new.  I decided to create a piece based on a side view photograph of my youngest daughter with her head thrown back in laughter.  Now, not only have I never tried to create a face like this before, but I'm also constructing her out of colors I typically don't use.

This is taking me forever.  I confess that I'm dreading making her ear... all those in and outs that still end up looking rather odd, even if it looks like an ear.  Still, I'm going to persevere because I like the direction this is going.   I've placed the face on this blue fabric so you can see her better; I'm actually going to be using this color for the next layer of dark hair.  The "official" background fabric -- well, the jury's still out on that one.