The other day I started the process of cross stitching the branches on the palm trees I drew on a piece of aida cloth. First, I cross stitched in the darker portions of the branches with a dark green color of coton thread.
This video illustrates how the dark and light portions of the branches looked as I continued cross stitching these on the aida cloth.
The photograph below illustrates what the cross stitched palm tree looked like after I have finished filling in all of the branches with the dark and light green colors.