somethings keeping me busy

In a continuation of my honours work around tea, the activity and its associated paraphenalia here is a section of a piece I'm working on at the moment, its a represetation of  a busy tea shop in Lytham St Annes (although it could be a tea shop or cafe anywhere) and of all of the conversations going on around me. Some of the conversations were obviously emotionally charged whilst others very low key and laid back. I am only on the second stage of this piece.

The overall size is 45 x 62 cm this section being 7 x 9 cm. The digitally printed cotton is a combination of two of my sketches and I am embellishing areas of the surface pattern to represent the various conversations overheard on my visit. I won't be posting the while piece here until I've finished working on it.
so far I've used cotton and silk embroidery threads with ink but have plans for the application of other naturals and organza with probably a further injection of colour with either dyes or paints...watch this space!