Season to Season Fall Block

This is my Fall block.
This is a swap that I am participating in the CQ4Newbies group.

On the left I did the vine with an outline stitch then added some silk ribbon roses which is called the Sweetheart rose.
I then added three different leaves that I played around with and they are the Bullion Tipped Lazy Daisy detached chain, Lazy Daisey chained leaf and the Ribbon stitch leaf.

On the brown patch I did a stem stitch and added some lazy daisy leaves and also added the leaf embellishments. I also added the motif, which I wasn't quite sure what it was, I thought it was a sun, but it looks good as a sunflower.

The tree I did chain stitches and the leaves are lazy daisy stitch, and I added the coloured beads, beneath the tree I did the flowers with straight stitches and lazy daisy stitch.

Lastly I did some straight stitches with French knots on the seam then embroidered the word Fall 2009 and added the larger leaf embellishments.

Blue Colour RR, Ocean Blue

Here is my block before I sent it off.

In the group that I am in, CQForNewbies, a colour RR swap has started, and the colour is Blue.

The group that I am in is Ocean Blue.

If I remember correctly, there is about 36 ladies that joined in the swap. We have been broken up into 6 groups, and the hostess running this swap was saying that this is the largest group ever she had done.

This is my first RR swap, and I am kinda nervous. Especially knowing that I am going to be working on other blocks, wondering if my stitches maybe ugly, crooked, not enough or maybe to much ... geez the list goes on.

I received my first block and all I did at first was look at it, trying to figure out what the heck I am going to do.