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Do I EVER love the stitches I tried this week!  I flipped through a bunch of embroidery books and chose the Herringbone Stitch.  You make it by doing a sort of backstitch, except that each stitch you take is apart from the last.  See?

Check this out.  If you draw or imagine a leaf outline, you can fill it in with close Herringbone Stitches!  I love that woven look, and prefer it to a satin stitched leaf.  Isn't it cool!?

Then I played around with altering the stitches:  a low, elongated stitch, and then a free form stitch I often see as grass in embroidered pieces.  It's all done with that same back-stitch motion as the first Herringbone example.

I love everything in this next photo.  I took a second variegated thread color and added to some of the existing stitch samples.

Did you look closely at the double Herringbone?  What a great effect when you weave it.

I was asked if I would keep all my samples & put them in a reference book.  You bet!  If you are stitching along with me, you can do the same.  Before I know it, I'll have a great collection I think.

Happy stitching!