Embroidered Collage

This piece started out as one of the trapped fabric pieces I made during QSDS.  I had been intending to turn it into part of a larger piece, but changed my mind and finished it as a 6"x6" study instead.  This is primarily because I'm having second thoughts about how I want to compositionally organize my newer works, but I'll get into that some other time.

It didn't really need much.  I cut out and elaborated on another fish from the same brocade, then sewed it onto the square.  There still wasn't quite enough texture so I added the small fish beads and just a few simple lines of running stitch in thick thread.

I think it looks a little better in person.  You can't see the blue mesh holding down the fabric bits, but I think it's interfering with the camera just a bit.  Using various shiny fabric didn't really help in that regards either, although it adds to the effect when you're looking at the actual piece.