Prayer Flag -Bloom

Bloom is linen with a strip of eco dyed habotai silk.  I used India Flint's hapa-zome technique (flower pounding) on the silk strip and just attached the strip to the prayer flag.  The flower was a pink dianthus, and I think I used vinegar as a post mordant.  At any rate, the pink became mostly lavenders and purples.

I used this one to practice the Cretan stitch.  After embroidering the word "bloom"--it just couldn't support any more embellishment, stitching or otherwise.

                                                                                                         

I don't like the next prayer flag.  I was working on this flag with nothing in mind and then decided to add the herringbone stitch (last week's TAST stitch) -- but I wasn't pleased with the addition, a kind of trellis made mostly of herringbone stitches.

The words "bloom" and "cultivate" kind of go together, but I also wish I had not used the floral images twice.
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I've just read some comments about Cultivate over at Tuesday Stitchers, and although I had decided to just give up on it, I may return to it keeping in mind the suggestions!  :)
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Another Chloe-ism:

Ren: What did you learn in school today?
Chloe: We learned that dinosaurs are extinct.
Ren: And what does that mean?
Chloe: It means I can't have one.

I've written about Ren's daughters Chloe and Alison on this post.  Chloe is just so quotable.
She cracks me up!