A new wip and some fat quarters:

I transferred this zinnia pattern onto fabric and I am going to stitch it up in these bright colors:

So far, I have stitched the flower stem using the portuguese stem stitch and the leaves in satin stitch:

For the flower petals, I first thought I would stitch each petal in long and short stitch and use two colors of floss.  This pink and the red.  But I didn't really like the pink added into my color combination.  So then I decided to outline each petal with back stitch and fill each petal with some sort of filling stitch but I didn't really like the way that was looking:

So I outlined each petal using back stitch.  I still need to add the french knots to the flower center:

Now onto the flower pot.  I am using the scroll stitch to give swirly edges to the pot rim:

I love this blue color:

I think I will do the scroll stitch on the top edge of the rim as well. 

I will post more pictures as I finish this project.  I also wanted to share a picture of some floss that I just bought as well as these two beautiful fabrics.  Each is a fat quarter.  I really like the colors on these.