Green leaf

To go with the flower and continue practicing coloured shading I tried sewing a leaf. Unfortunately it didn't really work very well.

The central stem is 2 threads while the rest is done with 1 so it ends up standing out too much.
The way it was shaded attempted to show the way leafs curve but I didn't get the pattern right.
And the colours are too bright. In trying to make the lightest colour show against the fabric I ended up selecting a group of thread shades that were a bit too like primary colours.

On the other hand what doing this piece emphasised was how difficult it is to keep the pattern going properly where you are only sewing very small sections of a certain type of thread then moving on. The picture below shows one length of the darkest thread complete and I have started the next colour but discovered that I had made a mistake at one point and got the pattern wrong.

Where the two colour meet you can just see that a diagonal square is formed because I had missed out a stitch of darker green when I was breaking the pattern up. I had to unpick a lot of what I had done to fix it. In future I will use shorted lengths of thread when there will be little fiddly sections but I will also try stopping one thread before the end, parking it, and catching up with the next before moving on (a technique I have seen referenced but never tried so I'm not quite sure how it works).