I wa lucky enough to be given a bunch of wintersweet branches from my Mum's tree the other day, along with the buddleia flowers from yesterday's post. This wintersweet is a bit like the European spring plant 'forsythia' but the flowers are a paler yellow and they smell really beautiful. (I mistakenly wrote once that some forsythia I found in Norway was wintersweet.) These flowers are nearly on their way out, so I thought I should capture them while they were still on the kitchen table, with this little embroidery. It's free-form, on grey Japanese linen. I think wintersweet must be my favourite winter plant.