French knots and more french knots

Progress on my Jacobean Crewelwork for the RSN certificate has been slow, mainly due to work and other family commitments (like a little girl's birthday I've been baking and icing cakes for :-)).  During the relatively few opportunities I have had to stitch- I've mostly been spending on french knots. A solid filling for two petals, and as a highlight in some open buttonholes on two others.

I've really enjoyed these two petals- the colours seemed to flow easily and the knots were quite soothing and meditative to stitch- good job as the solid filling took MUCH longer than I expected.

Here's an overview of where I'm up to now- I've actually finished the first couched outline and have the other couched petal outline to do.  

But first I have to decide on the seeding I'm going to use in a couple of the fillings.  Its a long story, but I had to take two petals worth out and start again.  Part of the mistake was the colour choice.  At least with some idea of how the tulip is turning out, I should be able to make a better choice of colour combinations.  

Speaking of colour choices I have to decide whether to stitch my "white" hart in a very pale blue, with a gold crown, or the palest gold, with a darker gold crown.  Originally, I was going to go with pale blue, but I'm having second thoughts.  Decisions decisions!