I see your pins.  Does this mean you are auditioning backgrounds?  What happens with a less intense brown, more the doe skin of the hills? Does it wash out the triptych, or let it shine?  I want to sit and read in the scene on the right!  Is there any transparancy through the individual pieces, or are they backed?  If transparent to some degree, I could see them hung in a window, backlit they might glow even more.  I have more questions than crtique!

Yes, I am still auditioning backgrounds.  I have thought about painting a stretched canvas -- maybe in lighter browns.  Thanks for reminding me.  All three pieces are backed with heavy pellon -- it holds up to all that stitching.  The sun does shine through them.  Interesting idea ...  Thanks - you have given me lots to think about.  Right now I think I will paint a canvas and try them on something lighter.

Oh!  The canvas thing!  I looked at some of those works recently and considered trying my Swan Triptych on them. Thanks for reminding me!  :?}

Hi Deborah,  What did you decide for the background color?  This is really awesome.....especially standing across the room and viewing it......send another photo when you have them on your canvas.  Peggy

This is the new background preview.  I hope it shows up as a dark sage green suede.  It is really nice fabric.  Also, I enlarged the stretcher bars.  It is now 20x24.  I think they needed more room.  They look crooked ...  I'm wondering if they need fabric borders instead of the zigzagged edges.

Love the way you put the 3 together for this landscape. Good idea!  I think the borders around each piece look good as they are.

Oh!  Don't change the zig zag edging! The little color pop is 'just right'.

Thanks to all of you for commenting and helping me make a better picture.  I was fretting again this morning about the zig zagged edging, so Lindy's comment was very timely and soothed my nagging thoughts!  This piece is now hanging, wire and all, so I think it is done. 

The background fabric looks wonderful!!!  And I really do like the 3 panels, makes it a very interesting piece.  I hope this is going into the Kerrville show.