Oak leaves – the first green on the leaves

The first two greens, actually. The ends of a couple of the lobes of each leaf in the design fold over, and I stitched them first, using Madeira stranded cotton no. 1409 (which I’ve just realised I didn’t take a photo of last time, but never mind. It’s a pale green):

Starting to fill in the oak leaves

I’ve going the stitch the main body of the leaves using three different shades of green. To start with, I’m going round the edge of each of them in long and short stitch using two strands of no. 1410. Here’s the first leaf:

First oak leaf

And the second:

Second oak leaf

And the third:

Third oak leaf

Next, I’ll start to introduce some shading.