I thought about doing those "petals" in long and short stitch gradually blending the different shades of blue crewel wool , but that isn't the way it's painted .
The painting shows the lovely shades of blue swirling about like little clouds .
I decided the best way to get the painterly effect on those petals was to work them in Colonial Knots .
I think I can replicate that effect .... oh well .. let's see what happens !
It is much harder than I thought choosing not only the blues but the whites too .
It seems that Appletons do lots of different shades of white crewel wool ....and guess what .... I don't have the brilliant white shade that I need ! It needs to be a very bright white . The one in the picture above is too dull .
So I,ll have to leave the white areas until I can get my hands on some !
I also stitched a bit of the dark blue Acanthus leaf shape in the right hand corner .
It,s been a gardening day for me today , the weather has been so nice , but I made time to do a little more of it this evening .
It's looking lovely!
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