zinnia wip - update

Here is a progress report on my zinnia project.

I have completed all the stitching:

And with no disasters!

Since my last zinnia post, I decided to use the back stitch on the sides of the pot rim:

And to add Scroll stitch along the top of the pot rim.  For the pot sides and base, I used the back stitch.  The little motif on the pot is a heart.   I decided to outline the heart using french knots:

I also used french knots for the flower center.  I am so pleased with the result! I have a fun project planned for this stitching which I will post about in a bit.

Speaking of zinnias, these beauties were from my garden and I can't wait until it is time to plant some this year. 

Zinnias are really easy to start from seed and they make very nice cut flowers too!

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.

Etsy shop updated!

I have updated my Etsy shop, the Zinnia embroidery pattern packet is now for sale! I hope you will take a look! Here is a picture of a towel I completed using the pattern.

Zinnia tea towel

Here is my latest work in progress. This is going to be a tea towel! The zinnia pattern is one that i designed and drew after growing zinnias from seed this last summer. I am looking forward to completing this...i need to decide what color to do the flower pots and what trim to add to the towel.

The pattern is going to be available in

my new etsy shop!