A dozen flowers... 2nd of the bunch

Here is the second in this flower series. Again it is a Camellia flower, but this time I have changed it up a bit from the classic look. I've stitched the centres as French Knots. The sample ball was stitched in Perle 8 so there are A LOT of knots there. The colour changes are quite bold and I wondered if a more gradual change would be better so in the S10 version I did very subtle colour gradation... a little too subtle. I can barely see the difference.

Below there is the picture of the diamond pattern obi.

Did you miss the last post about this series? Check out the links in the archive. All these posts are titled 'A dozen flowers'.