Dress Update

Okay, so I intended to be finished with Vogue 8726 by now, but I ended up in Wyoming at my parent's house for two days last week and a third day was spent helping my dad take care of cancer appointments at Huntsman Cancer Center in Salt Lake.  So......I'm not as far along as I planned, but that's okay.  My dress was still waiting for me in my sewing room when I did steal away for a coupe hours of sewing time.  Since the fabric is a plain, black, linen, I determined that it needed a little something to add interest.  So I machine embroidered a black design on my black fabric.  How much interest can that add?  I'll fill you in on my thought process when I post the completed dress.  Here's what the embroidery looks like: