Easter Egg - Part One

 I am starting an Easter egg stitching project.  I am stitching this egg onto white fabric.  The egg features a ribbon at the top, decorative lines and some flowers at the base.  There are a lot of opportunities for color:

I am settling in on this color scheme - light and dark greens, pinks, blues and purples.  I have a yellow for the flower centers and of course white for the egg :)

I used perle cotton for the egg outline.  I am stitching the ribbon in the light purple cotton floss, this is such a pretty color!
To fill the ribbon, I am using lines of split stitch.  I used the back stitch in green to add a decorative line to the egg.  I like the look that two shades of green give this:

Here is a close up of the split stitching:

I will post some more pictures as I progress!