All my hoops are full of flowers at the moment, flowers everywhere. Mostly they are appearing as I try my best to finish work for hankie class, panels for an embroidered bag, soft layers, pretty layers. Traditional patterning is being used for the hankie class flowers, I'm connecting with my memories for that one. The other flower shown here (second image, lower left) is less traditional and has been isolated in a hoop so I can concentrate solely on that without distraction from other embroidery on that particular piece. Why? Well because I am trying to visualise another, potential piece of work, a piece of work using those techniques. An embroidery hoop is also a very useful window viewer.....