Leafy

I like herringbone stitch a lot, but it's never liked me much. I always have trouble keeping it consistently sized whenever I use it for my embroidery. I tend to get mixed up with the over/under thread pattern as well because it's easy these days for me to get confused.

I want to improve, so I went looking for some new ideas, and found a tutorial where the stitch was used instead of satin stitch as leaf filler. I decided to try that out on the linen quilt.

I first drew a shape outline in disappearing fabric marker before I began stitching it, which is how I got the nicely aligned edges with each leaf.

I'm still occasionally mixing up my over/under pattern by fiddling with the thread placement (and probably thinking too much), but otherwise it turned out nicely.