OK. The man leaving St Ives with all the "bagage" (wives, sacks, kittens, what have you) seems to be a clear winner since it offers the most versatility....
Jo has "married" that idea with the 7-continents one: .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Size and Shape Seven panels, each 70cm square, each in a 3.5cm deep frame.
Greetings,
I've enjoyed reading all the ideas but kept out of it until now. This is indeed a discussion on 'lace' but just a different phase than we usually are involved in. Designing is an important part of lacemaking. The patterns have to start somewhere. This can move to it's special discussion area in a little while.
I tried to convert the CM figures above to inches, and came up with 28 inches square. That's huge. Is this really the size suggested? Or is there a typo in there somewhere?
The size requirements need to be checked carefully. That's alot of lace if there are to be seven or more panels. And when framed, will be quite heavy to move or ship. I think the panels should be smaller than 28" square, maybe 18-20?
Or even rectangular -- so they are wider than tall (easier to put in lots of cats.)
2) Images.
Each panel could have, centered, a (rough) outline of a continent. .........
The wives would be centered on each continent, filling most of it.........
In a corner of each panel, outside the continent's outline, we could have a *small* figure of a man.............
Cats, sacks and veils (of the dance) and/or fragments thereof could be fitted in the remaining space within each panel, .............
. If we wanted to go ahead and include the "beyond seven mountains, forests, rivers" and the "seven sisters" (roses) ideas, the rivers (the main river of each continent?) could be placed behind the wives, with a tree or a leaf (for the forest), an outline of a mountain, and a rose in the remaining space *within* the continent, with the wife. A partial spiderweb could also be fitted in, either outside or inside each continent...
Hold on a moment! Think carefully. I've been known to do many strange projects in my day, but I learned a few things from them. Don't make it too complicated or it will get bogged down and not get done. There's been many great ideas presented (and I hope several people will take some of them and produce great entries in the 'Seven' contest) but they *cannot* ALL be put into one project. St Ives/continents/mountains/forests/sisters/etc all in a heap would be confusing.
I think it will result in a better product to stick closely to the St Ives theme, with reference to the world-wide aspect of our group.
Don't forget the sign to St Ives! Perhaps the man and his sign could go on the front cover and the text of the rhyme could be inside the front cover. Perhaps on the back cover, we could have a lace representation of St Ives - a very pretty Cornish village
The first panel should have a sign pointing right "To St Ives". The last panel with the village should have a sign the says "St Ives". It's probably not necessary to write out the rhyme because it's fairly well known.
It would fit the theme to have just seven panels, but for displaying, 8 would be better. I like the idea of them hinged on alternate edges like a big zigzag. They could be displayed in a zigzag, a square, a straight line, a circle.
Instead of trying to fit the continents into each panel, how about a world map on the first panel, with the 'To St Ives' sign -- and of course a cat scampering ahead of the group. (Perhaps a spider web and spider up in one corner.) There is a pattern already available of a world map. I've seen it somewhere. The name of Arachne could be incorporated.
Panel 2 would have the man facing left (all figures are facing left -- going away from St Ives unless a wife has stopped and turned around to pick up a dropped sack), with one wife following him. Cats around their feet.
Panels 3-7 would have the other six wives, one or two on a panel, with sacks and cats everywhere. The wives' costumes could represent areas around the world if desired.
Panel 8 would have the village of St Ives with it's sign, and cats.
The panels would take 8 people to make the background and main figure of each. This would be a major commitment. The sacks and cats could be made separately and appliqued on. There could be a hundred people making a cat or sack. The more cats, the better. They could be in, around, under and over all parts of the picture - climbing trees, running, sitting, jumping at a butterfly, --whatever.
Now I've thrown my two bits worth into the fray, let's hear from some more. If we do this, perhaps we should start looking for cat patterns?
Happy lacing, Alice in Oregon -- where it is damp out, and will continue so all week.
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