this eucalyptus design is our club pattern for september, inspired by the fresh bundles i like to hang in our showers. (trader joe's is my go-to, they last a long time and look great fresh or dried!)

there are three soothing shades of green for the majority of this design, and once i started stitching, i noticed it was a little tricky to differentiate between the three colors of pattern lines.
so, as you can see here, i'm using my favorite water-soluble pen to mark all of the dark green leaves. (i drew a blue line inside each. i'll be stitching over all the blue marks, but if i wasn't, the lines easily wash away with a spritz of water.)

once the dark green leaves are all stitched, it will be simple to tell the other two greens apart.

i'm using satin stitch [ 2 strands ] here, and varying the direction of stitching for each leaf.

 since i'm using satin for all the leaves (and trying to vary the direction of the stitching each time i start a new leaf), there isn't much to say, so here's a few photos instead:

✨i'll be updating this post as i make more stitching progress... stay tuned! ✨