MiniFlorals

The first of the mini-florals are finished and ready to be put into shadow boxes and hung in the restaurant. I feel so productive!

First, I added a center vein on each of the large leaves with some hand-dyed #5 Perle Cotton. The tendrils are done with chenille and some thick/thin wool yarn. I then outlined each leaf and petal using a buttonhole stitch and #12 Perle Cotton, except on the pink flower which I used something more like #8.

I tried a number of things on the background - sorbello stitch, seed stitch, beads ... and ripped them all out. A plain background it is! I fused strips of hand-dyed fabric around the edges and then finished it off with seed beads.

Done!