Neat Idea

I like herringbone stitch a lot, although I always have trouble keeping it consistently sized whenever I use it for my embroidery. I tend to get mixed up with the over/under pattern if I think too much about my thread placement, and my stitches always seem to start small and then grow larger on their own.

I want to improve, so I went looking for some new ideas for the stitch that wouldn't require me to stitch straight, and found a tutorial where it was used as leaf filler. I decided to try that out on the linen quilt.

I first drew a shape outline in disappearing fabric marker before I began stitching it, which is how I got the nicely aligned edges with each leaf.

I'm still occasionally mixing up my over/under pattern by fiddling with the thread placement (and probably thinking too much), but otherwise it turned out nicely.