Embroidered Collage

I made this roughly 8"x8" piece in late 2004 as a contribution to a fabric book and sent it off, receiving a nifty little art doll as a thank you in return.  I can see so clearly here the seeds of the work that I am pursuing now.  There are layers of media and scale, repetition and variation, and stitching plays an important role.  It has inspired me to wonder if I would like to do some works on ungessoed canvas, putting in the primary color layer with fabric paints and crayons and pens, building up on it with paper, fabric, and stitch, then stretching it over the wooden bars.  It would still be mixed media, but its appearance would lean more towards fiber art.