black

I've added a strip along the bottom, adding 'weight' to the whole; the strip actually started life on the right part of this cloth and was cut away for the hand-dyed linen; I felt the piece was too vague, was falling apart, I wasn't happy with the way it was developing and decided to use black thread, to add contrast; I'm wary of using black - having learned as a painter there is no true black in nature it's all about colours juxtaposed, deluding the eye....
I started with  the cut out circles, representing to me the villages we walked through/around on our evening walks in Normandy and continued echoing rows of stitches.
 anyway, I really like it's effect here and I'm going to continue with black and add white as well, not exactly sure what shapes, but there has to be more definition