Naughty but hopefully nice

I've been working on the second exercise of chapter ten, some more work translating doodle to stitch.  The suggestion in the course notes was to use red and gold thread on black.  But I've been a bit naughty.  Red and Gold are a bit christmassy and I wasn't really feeling that for the new year.  I've had this lovely orange and black variegated thread that I've been itching to try out so I went for that instead....

I've chosen to go with a white background so the colours really stand out......

....  looking good so far (well I think so anyway!!)