Happy New year. Last year I was away with TW's Fairies: viewtopic.php?t=32310 having completed the full set of 6 Fairies I ending the year with work on Rosewood Manor's "and then a forest grew" This is what the original looked like:
Mine will have a more appropriate quote in the middle
The first Sunday of a new year and I continue working sideways on my ever growing forest:
You may just be able to see the branches on the right are dipping down again, this is an indication of where the middle is
Not surprised -- it's a big responsibility. It has to be worthy of both the subject and the stitching. It needs to be about the same length of text, clearly. I would suggest looking for good quotes about trees, or nature in general, and perhaps you'll find something as all-encompassing as the original?
One of the sayings I used with the Tree of Life SAL was "Wisdom is a tree of life for those who take hold of her" - might that be the sort of thing you would like?
I am still looking for something suitable. I have tried scribbling down something the best I have so far is:
The rays of the rising sun form the tree of life,
It spreads its long arms like branches,
giving nourishment to all living things.
The branches embrace us leading us on our way,
to the sunset and the peace of the night to come.
I have not looked to see if it fits, the original was about 36 words...
Of course the problems do not stop there as I now have to find a suitable alphabet to use.
It would have been too easy for the publishers to include it in the pattern. They do provide one for the name block but it is too small. Looking closely at the central font I thought it was 8 stitches high but a few are 9 high, and the widths go up to 7 stitches for an m and down to 2 for an i
If you chart out the letters you do have from the original quote, then I bet it won't take too long to figure out how any extra ones might look. (Bet you thought of that...!)
That is all of the trees and animals completed. The last part is to add the words and lettering in three places.
Then there is the recovery of all of the threads back onto the bobbins . At least that is something I can (Safely ?) I can do with a glass of wine in my hand.
