DON'T YOU THINK DAISIES ARE THE FRIENDLIEST FLOWER?

The title of this post is one of Meg's lines in "You've Got Mail". It's in the scene when Tom comes to visit with a bouquet of daisies and she has a cold and he wants her to forgive him for putting her out of business and she says "Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?". Man, I love that damn movie.

I knew I would enjoy this piece, but I completely underestimated just how much I would do so. I am just loving every single stitch and every single motif and every single minute I'm spending with this one! Woo Hoo! Now, y'all know how much I already love our girl Laura J. Perin...but I have to say that this one ROCKS!
The good news is that there are more flowers in this series to stitch! I can see it now....a black sleigh style day bed in my guest room covered in a white eyelet comforter and tons of these pillows. Wouldn't that just be lovely? I do have several pillows on the guest bed now, but they seem to be scattered about willy nilly. Methinks we need to have a THEME.

Hmmmm. Wonder how I can stop making french knots that look like little niplets?:

OK, OK, I didn't use the called-for ribbon floss on this one. I used Sparkle Rays for the petals instead:

I DID use the ribbon floss here, but realized later that it was supposed to be #5 perle cotton. For the Rhodes stitches in the middle, I used my beloved Flair:

Here I tried not to carry my thread on the back...I don't think it shows through, so I must have done something right:

So that's the progress thus far. I am truly hoping that I can finish this one up before the weekend is over so that I might jump into the Lily of the Valley Collage. I think I have all of the borders already completed on that one, so it might be a quickie!