I worked this stitch in three different ways. This is a photo of the back of the work. Two ways produced the right leaf and the last produced the left image
I don't think the front of the work looks any different. The difference in the stitching is related to maintaining the slant. In the final analysis the stitch is formed by a succession of pairs of slanted stitches. If you start the stitch at the center stem and cross over for the next stitch horizontally you end up using a lot of extra thread and you constantly have to stretch the thread to keep your work flat. I decided to move from one pair of stitches to the next along the exterior edges. I need to work on keeping the slant. If you get a good slant on the first stitch , I think you can try to maintain it by laying the needle along the previous slant to get a good parallel stitch for the next pair of stitches. I have fifteen more leaves with which to practice.
Update: My efforts at stitching down the outside edges just does not have the same look as the extra horizontal threads in the back so I am reverting to the other method and I am stitching down the center stem. I still cannot get the slanting I need. More practice is needed to effect a better result.
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