Beginning whitework

Well, after a bit of a false start, my whitework is actually underway.

It is pretty hard to see the design on this photograph, but it is a horse trotting.

All that I have done so far is to start on the borders - a bit of drawn thread and hemstitching, and then started to fill in the background to the horse with some pulled thread stitches. So far I have used chained border and three sided stitch. There is a photograph below of the tiny bit that I have done.

The idea is to use a whole variety of stitches to make up the background. Should be fun!