Wild Poppies Stage Two

I'm very pleased with my experiment to embroider the poppies flower panel by colors. The second stage of the cross stitching - adding the greenery, is ready in no time, now I have to fill in the vast gaps with the background and then some back-stitching.

Pictures of the garden poppies from the garden in front of our building, taken in May. They are spectacular, but like their wild cousins, last only a couple of days.

Wild Poppies

I started the third wild flowers cross stitch panel - Wild Poppies by John Clayton.
This time I decided to shake things up by stitching first only the flowers, then the greenery and last the background. Since I always draw grade lines  on my canvass, stitching here and there is not difficult and made the whole project much more interesting. I'm done with the flowers in only a couple of days and I'm really enjoying it all so far ...

All pictures of live poppies were taken during our trips to Bosnek and Osogovo.