No unpicking required

Finally I have managed to sew a leaf for the Autumn panel that did not require any of the stitches to be unpicked:

I suspect what helped is that although there are a variety of colours they are all roughly the same shade so there were fewer awkward transitions. Again there are seven colours of thread included in this motif, not including the black outline. The three leaves together look quite good:

There is a nice contrast in shape and colour that works well. The plan has always been to do five coloured leaves in total and gold ones in the background. However, when I started thinking about where the gold leaves should fit I started wondering. I tried making some outlines:

I am not really convinced. So I am carrying on with the next coloured leaf and thinking about the gold ones in the background. The may need to be much smaller than I had thought.