Feather Stitch
A large family of stitches with many variations.
Single, double, triple, straight, slanted, interlaced.
They can be used for borders, outlines, fillings of shapes.
Try exaggerating the stitches and/or using different weights of threads
Fly Stitch
Sometimes called tied stitch or the Y stitch. Can be used in borders and fillings. Also they can represent plant forms
To download a copy of instructions, click here: Feather and Fly stitch
Here is some more inspiration for you. Margaret Preece has stitched several samples. In this one, the background is painted and the border is stitched in fly stitch using a shiny variegated Brazilian thread. The ferns and pink leaves are feather and the gold metallic flower stems and the green bar angled across the picture are closed single feather. All the flowers are fly stitch. See how different they look! The greenery in the lower left of the picture is stitched in double feather stitch using a ribbon like thread.