A Rusted Lanscape

This might well be the final piece on my "rust" theme. I feel the time has come to move on to the other ideas I have spinning around in my head. This one was created by needlefelting layers of scrim to a background of dyed wadding. There are three broad 'layers' which give the appearance of a landscape. I added some contrasting colours at the bottom to act as the interest in the foreground - with some buttons and french knots for more effect. Initially I was just going to hand stitch along the lines where the scrim changed but once this was done, I decided to add some lines of machine quilting. Then came the dilemma of how to mount it! My original plan was to just hang it as it was, just putting a backing on to it. A friend suggested that I mount it on another piece of fabric so that it had a frame. I tried this with several different colours but just didn't like the affect. So I went with my original plan and just hand stitched a backing fabric, leaving the ends of the scrim free to give an uneven edge.