I like very much this embroidery. Congratulations!!
Happy Christmas an New year 2008!

Strawberries--I don't think it's a problem, since there are lots of varieties of strawberries and not all have that really obvious trefoil (the toothiness varies, too). Those are just the strawberries I'm really used to. I have a facsimile of a botanical catalog from the early 1600s and some pictures of strawberries embroidery filed away--I'll try to find/scan those (I'm about to start on a strawberry book cover for a friend, so I have been thinking about strawberries a lot lately). There's a fragment of a polychrome jacket with strawberries in the V&A (T.259-1926) which has fairly stylized leaves. The book cover you referenced here would be the other one that comes to mind (single leaf with three lobes, which I guess is more accurate than leaflets--I'm embarrassingly bad with botanical terminology for someone supposedly studying paleobotany).

Anyway, I think you've got lots of flexibility on strawberry leaves, since there's a lot of variation in the plants and the level of stylization of Elizabethan embroidery. Yours look good, especially in the context of a styled plant that's also got pinks growing out of it. I was mostly pointing out that the Elizabethan trefoils with the strawberries are (probably) strawberry leaves.

Your book cover is amazing! I envy your embroidery skills.

Er, the comment from m. would be me.