Playing with fabric

While the flowers in my head are marinating I decided to try working on the background for them. Found a nice piece of shibori-dyed fabric and am now stamping it. I have piles of little rocks stamped onto the background. I'm thinking this will be a good base fabric for some thistles. We'll see. I tried piecing a small section of cloth to extend the length of this piece -- they're okay separately, but they don't look too hot put together -- so some other solution will present itself as the need arises.