Anyway, her books inspired me to make a set of four handkerchiefs for my husband. This is one of them, which I then used in a shadowbox for my bathroom (with his shaving brush and pocketwatch). One was buried with him, and go figure, I never took a picture of it (silly me). I can't remember which one that was. One was a rocket, one was wheat, and one was cattails with dragonflies. The willow tree has always been my favorite, though (probably why I know where it is and not the others!)
It was hard to get close-ups of the tree. I deleted a lot of them. I can't even really tell what stitch I used on the trunk - it looks almost like a braid. I'm guessing it was a chain stitch of some sort, since I really, really love chain stitch. :-)
I got off work at something like 6:30 in the morning, and Ian didn't get off work until around 8 most mornings because he always stayed late. So, I would just sit up there in the ICU breakroom (I worked in the lab, he was an ICU nurse) and embroider while he finished up. It was very domestic. :-)