Each flower is topped by a French knot. I decided to stitch the knots first in order to determine placement for the flowers.
Placement of and colour choices for these flowers took more work and concentration than I expected. I had to pay close attention to what I was doing and the flowers ended up taking quite a while to stitch.
After stitching the majority of the flowers I added a few more here and there just as you would if you were drawing, a different kind of thread painting.
Because of this skipping around, the back of the work is not a pretty sight! If you don't like messy backs I suggest you skip this photo. It's absolutely atrocious, but I find it amusing. I had to do a lot of thread travelling, much more than I normally would, but stopping and starting the threads is a little difficult because the ground fabric is somewhat unyielding. I'm trying to stop and start threads only when I have to. Also, there's more stitching to come so I'm not worried about the long threads coming loose. These travellers will be heavily stitched over.By the way, I'm not one of those people who cares about the back of the work. (This is true in a general sense; there are exceptions such as table linens.) I usually maintain a fairly neat back, but as long as the front looks good and is not affected by anything on the reverse, I really don't care what's going on on the back.
I finished the leaves on the tree and have started on the little orange flowers to the left. It's coming together nicely. I really like the palette and the pink flowers have started the process of anchoring down the long green threads so that makes me happy.
It should be finished very soon.
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