Knotted Loop De Loops

 Have to admit that I struggled a bit with figuring out how to do this week's challenge and didn't like it at first.  It probably didn't help that it was past 10:00 at night the first time I tried.  I gave it a go the next evening and by looking through a couple of stitch books I eventually figured it out.  Some of my knotted loops on my first fish (on the far left) weren't done quite right but I got the hang of it and now I can say that I quite like this Knotted Loop Stitch and my little fishies.  Here's how my band sampler is looking with the last 7 TAST challenge stitches.

 A few last leaves on a poplar tree in our yard.  All the rest have long fallen but these are not ready to let go of their tenacious grip.  Everyday I look for them and for some reason it makes me glad that they're still hanging on :)

The last leaves in fall remind me of Emily Bronte's poem:

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree. 

Wishing everyone a lovely and long fall :)