Leprechaun Embroidery Project - Part Two

I have an update to share on my leprechaun embroidery project .  You may remember from my last post that I was wondering about floss colors for the mushroom top {thank you for all of your helpful suggestions!}  Well...since then, I happened to come across this fabric and I found it to be very mushroom looking and a perfect color.  So I cut the top off of the mushroom pattern:

and traced it onto the wrong side of my fabric.

I cut it out of the fabric and turned it over.  Perfect!

Now I don't want to worry about the raw edges of this fabric so I am trying out just using the blanket stitch around the border.  I am spacing the stitches close enough together that hopefully, fraying edges will not be a problem!

I am going to stitch all the underneath parts before blanket stitching the mushroom top on.  I have stitched all the way to the mushroom stem and so now I am finishing the stem.  I decided to go with white floss and I am doing it in rows of split stitch - here is a little better view of the stem:

For the pot part of the pot of gold, I am back stitching in rows.  I am using black but I think I will have to make the rim of the pot a slightly different shade to set it off from the pot.  I think these gold coins are really going to look good: 

Next will be the grass - this bright green is DMC #906:

I am using the same floss color for the leprechaun's little pants, I outlined them in backstitch just because I wanted to keep track of the line but I may change that.  I need to think of a good stitch to finish these:

Now time to start thinking about hair and beard colors!