(sorry about the rather harsh lighting in that photo - I'm not sure what happened there).
I'm using three shades of Madeira stranded cotton: nos. 1908, 1910 and 1912.
As the palest shade, 1908, will be the most used of the three, I used that to outline the design in split stitch:
Next time, I'll start to fill it in.
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Oh! I love acanthus leaves most dearly. I tried to do a very similar 'stream' of leaves in a circle. Long and short stitch. I died completely - too many short, choppy stitches because of all the stitch direction changes. Looked just terrible. It's a firm UFO now. I'll be following this with utmost interest, and so glad to see someone else doing such a design.
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