Floral Stitches X

Believe it or not, I've now completed 10 of the 12 flower samplers in Dropcloth's Floral Stitches subscription series.

Each little flower is 4" in diameter, and you use the colors and stitches of your own choosing. For this entire series, I've used Wonderfil perle cotton #8, most often with a double-strand. More and more, I'm using a trio or more of threads in each flower color. IE. for the yellows in this one, I used three solid threads and two variegated, using them pretty randomly as I stitched along. I did purposefully use a lighter variegated one for the outside edge of the flower, and I really like that accent.

It may be hard to tell, but I used seven different stitches in this little sampler - chain, straight, running, lazy daisy, woven chain, couching, and brick. I really enjoy deciding what to use as I go along.

So just two little samplers to go! It'll be great to see them all together in a few months.

P.S. If you follow Dropcloth on IG, you may have just seen one of my little samplers in Rebecca's recent post!