I have planned three pieces of work to plop into those frames (I will get the goddesses framed).  This was the starting point for the first piece.

Nice I was happy with it.  Then over the past few evenings I have taken it up to the house and done an hour or so of hand stitching on it.

The piece now has a very different feel because of the strong “journey line” through the centre and I don’t want the leaves to cover up my stitching.

So - there will be no leaves.  I have tried a variety of other “inclusions” on top of the stitching - but none of them speak to me.  So I am contemplating just leaving it as it is and letting the stitching speak for itself.

This is quite strange - as I don’t usually do things in quite such an abstract way ….do I?

Please excuse the colour of the mount board - it is in fact cream - although the rest of the colours are not to bad - I think I forgot to set the “white point” on the camera.

Close up details.

Um -  the focus is not the best it could be, the chiffon and organza layers appear slightly glarey under the flash  of the camera