Embroidered Collage

I still need a better name before I post this to my Studio News blog as an official completion but I didn't want to wait until I came up with one to show the finished piece.  I stayed very minimal with bringing together the pieces and adding stitching.  I really wanted the detail and texture of the pulled thread piece to stand out the most. 

I stitched a piece of the unpainted fabric down, then stitched down the pulled thread portion.  I embroidered a few circles and added a spray of white beads, then stretched the fabric onto the bars.  At the Fiber Alliance meeting it was suggested that maybe a few more beads and a little more emphasis might be good, so I put in a little more beading in ocean colors and strengthened the impression of the embroidered circles with whipping and detached buttonhole.  

I know I could have gone into much greater depth with layering, perhaps used some net fabric in layers to obscure and reveal bubbles or pulled a texture surface off of the pulled thread piece by building up stitches on the canvas, perhaps embroidering on scrim first and combining the two.  Someday I hope to do those things in another project.  But I feel this simpler effect is appropriate for this work.  It pleases me as it is.