- Like the right petal, the left petal naturally divides itself in two. Here's the top of it :-)
- There is a shadow under that little flap. The book said to use the darkest colour but it stood out too much. I used a dark red instead, and it seems to work ok.
- I've got some tension problems - below the right petal and to the right of the right bud. I hope they don't stay once I've blocked the embroidery
- The bottom half of the right petal (the last one I did) looked funny to me with the mixture of light green, dark green, pink and cream. I realized that it was because they were long stitches, whereas the rest of the petal had quite short stitches as an effect of blending the colours so much.
- I'd needed to put a line up the edges of the top petal, because it was merging with the right petal and I've added one on the left to match.
- For the bottom half of the left petal, which I'm about to do, I actually took the design and marked out the different sections in pencil on the page. Those markings were already on the embroidery itself, but I found a couple of extra, including a shading that I hadn't noticed and a bit of a change in shapes.
I think adding in this left petal is really making the iris look like more harmonized and is a big step, because it brings the centre into the design, instead of one red petal and a brown centre.
Any comments on why I have the tension problem most welcome.
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