Touch me Thursday #1: Night blooming Jimson Weed

Day 172:
Yep you have traveled back in time to yesterday.  I was so busy whining about being hot and sick of Summer on Wednesday and Thursday that I did not get to starting my first experimental stitching project until the night time.  I have been wanting to explore texture with stitching for a while now, something free flowing and organic.  Where I don't worry so much about the stitches themselves as how I want them to feel or look like they should feel.

Every week I will pick something I observe and try to recreate it in stitches...this time it was the smoothness of these giant night blooming flowers that I have so missed this Summer.  The plants are only just starting to peek up above the ground after being stunted by the heavy fire smoke a few months ago.

 I think I could have interpreted this better by working longer to shorter stitches filling all the way from top to bottom and working my way left than what I did which was work the stitches in rows starting at the top.   But I do like that the white glows and I think it captures the soft smoothness of the flower.  These trumpets are over 6" in length and incredibly delicate.  I outlined the flower in a thicker white, then filled in with regular DMC white.  I will try to get the numbers of the thread colors I use when I can, right now I am using  up leftover colors I have and they are without their packaging.
Sorry about the crap picture I had no idea white on dark fabric would be so hard to photograph :(.

Until next time....what will you create today?