Texas Embroidery Design

I have a new embroidery design set in my shop. Texas!  

This set has so many of the iconic images of the Lone Star State.  

Here is the state shape I just finished stitching.  

I used the blue, white and red of the Texas state flag. 

After outlining the three colored sections in Back Stitch

I filled the large colored areas using long Straight Stitches vertically, diagonally and horizontally.   I filled the star with Back Stitch and I whipped the Back Stitches on all the lines where two color sections met:

I will be back with some mores stitched samples from this set!