Embroidered Collage

All I completed for this week's Take a Stitch Challenge - Detached Chain Stitch was a bit on my counted thread sampler.  I especially like my little flower bush on the left.  I do hope to do something off the grid in surface embroidery soon.  I really want to try it as a couching stitch and see how it looks nestled in each other, although I suppose I could do both of these on the quaker cloth below, instead....

I've been feeling artistically muddled most of the week.  Between completing Jasper (I'll post as soon as I have a sunny day to take pictures in) and realizing that my four-sided figures for TAST turned out funny, I've been doing a lot of staring into space and scribbling words down.  I do think I at least know which Footstep I'll be going for next, so that's good, but I'm afraid to say anything before I actually start it in case I change my mind!