Varigated thread

 always looks so pretty, always tempts me and yet often I have no idea what to do with it, there was a time that the result would be embroidered knots.

However, at the time I bought the knot work tree  I also bought a sampler. The pattern is set for completion in a single colour.

I thought that it might fit in the top of my new box.  The design is 300 by 300. An although the box is not exactly square it feels right.

So I am stitching  one over one on linen. Starting in the left bottom corner.