I am addicted to these little stitched squares! This most recent bunch has turned out very well, I like all of them. I am still amazed at how scraps can be transformed into little treasures.
In this set of four, I played with making stitch flowers by filling in petal shapes with combinations of stitches, and then tried out a monochrome color palette:
More trials with monochrome, and then I jumped back into multicolor mayhem:
These little squares are a great way to audition color combinations. Think of them as preliminary sketches for larger pieces. I absolutely love the layers of textures that I combined in the square on the lower left here:
I wonder if the square I make for a given day reflects my mood at the time. I’ll have to pay more attention to that.