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“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” 
― Vincent van Gogh

I did complete all four pages for Stitching friend's challenge in January, although the deadline is March, while I was free of other commitments it was good having the time to work on them. The last page was for Heather she had chosen NZ trees for her book and I wanted to stitch the flower from one that possibly others would not have thought of, hoping she might get a nice variety in her book. I decided on the tree fuchsia.  I have always enjoyed finding these tiny blooms in the bush. This time the technique I decided to stitch was silk shading and I am quite pleased with my effort on the leaves however after that....think its more like needle painting  as I added extra stitches to complete the flower and buds.  It was not as easy to mount the piece on the required background maybe I should have thought of this and made another choice.

 

 

 here is the result of my research and the  design stage

The design transferred to the silk fabric ,

 and a start on the silk shading of the leaf

February is now here and the list of what I would like to stitch is far too long. decisions!  decisions !

 I will let you know later what I decide.