A gift inspired by the recipient's affection for the excellent picture book Miss Rumphius and for lupines themselves. Worked mostly in stem, fishbone, lazy daisy, and Quaker stitches, with some French knots and straight stitches thrown in for good measure, in DMC 6-strand cotton embroidery floss, on cream linen.
I'm working on a small-but-bigger-than-this lupine project. And when I messed around on this scrap of linen to figure out style, stitch, and color plans, it ended up so pretty that now I want to figure out something to do with it!
Choosing stitches and threads to represent particular succulent varieties was a delight. So much green! Now this garden lives in the home of a family member who keeps lots of live succulents thriving too.
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