Chevron stitches - Tast2012 week 6

Pictures are not as good as I would like to have them - the red colour of my fabric must be the cause or the dull weather which we are having -
I simply can't get them sharp. See first my doodling with thread and needle

end of doodling on the old linen sheet 

My fabric is of a brilliant orange brown colour

here is the best what I could get  

The center ornament reminded me of the bridges

to Key West, Florida, USA,

before I added the silk ribbon stitches



This is - or should be - raised chevron stitch
The enlargement is so merciless



I inserted buttonhole stitches into the upper

horizontal stitches - and made another row to

produce a tiny lace -

again the enlargement reveals each irregularity! 

 This was taken with another camera and comes nearer to the original