Flowers - finished

I'm finished.  I took out the little bit of coloured flowers and kept it all green at the bottom.  I also  took Sharon's B's suggestion of using buttons for the flower centres. I was lucky that I had three the same size in the right colours.

More progress - flowers

I've finished the petals on this 5 1/2" x 4 1/2"  piece of embroidery for the Sumptuous Surfaces course.  This is our final week and I'm trying to finish on time!  I have some long green leaves to add, the raised stem stitch border to complete, and to decide the centres of the flowers.  I also need to make up my mind about what to do along the bottom - just green foliage or green with some small flowers.  I'm leaning towards just green.

Sumptuous Surfaces

We got to use colour for the second project in Sharon B's Sumptuous surfaces.    

I chose an analogous colour scheme and picked these threads. 

It's not easy for me to draw a design out of my head, but I kept it simple and was satisfied with this.  It's about 6" x 8" and it's on the same linen as I used for the rabbit.

Now I'm having fun!  The edge is going to be a raised chain. I'm filling in the petals very heavily, with any stitch I can think of!

Sumptuous Surfaces

I've been taking Sharon B's Sumptuous Surfaces on-line course.  This little stone bunny rabbit is the subject of my first project which we were to work in monotone.

Here he is with suitable sumptuous surroundings!