The leaves are finished, and I must say that I'm very happy with them. There wasn't much to do to finish them off, with just the central areas of the each leaf and a little detailing to do.
For the central area, I used one strand of Madeira 1411 (the medium shade) and one of 1412 (the darkest of the three). Here are the leaves on the right:
And the ones on the left:
Not quite finished - the very last thing was to add a vein up the centre of each leaf in split stitch, with two strands of 1412:
It's a bit hard to see the difference in the photo, so here's a close up:
The stems next, and I want to try something different!
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
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so beautiful!
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