Jane's Leafy Adventure: Part Two

Brenda Hart's Large Ribbons Stitch

After stitching the partial flower's leaves, I moved to the two leaves under the cluster of fruit.  These rather oval leaves have the toffee colored vein down the middle but one has a a feature none of the other leaves have--a patch of peach at the tip where it connects to the stem.  I tent stitched that area using the same peach colored thread used on the peach.  I also tent stitched the vein with Rainbow Linen.

I'd already settled on Brenda Hart's Large Ribbons Stitch (page 62 in her Favorite Stitches) for the bulk of the leaves.  You've already seen my test stitching of this near the large flower (see June 25's Let's Talk Green blog entry).  Large Ribbons is very similar to the stitch used on the flowers but it is larger in scale and doesn't have the skipped spots between stitch elements.  It also looks less rounded.

Check the photo above to see how I stitched the two leaves as a single area, letting the stitch flow from one leaf to the other and dividing each leaf into a dark half (where I used the medium green thread) and a light half (where I used the yellow-green overdyed thread).

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