September TIF ideas

Sharon B's September Take It Further Challenge topic this month is lists. I don't seem to do lists except for groceries. I used to do a list to keep track of things I want to look up on the internet. It makes me think that I don't have enough to do, but that's not right... To translate this into an image, I thought I could stitch some writing like milk, eggs, laundry soap, then stitch across the letters to show that they have been crossed off the list, but this just didn't inspire me. The colour swatch also wasn't speaking to me, but the journal page spread Sharon used made me think of castles and crusades, and that led me to...

Lists - the arena, sometimes within the castle walls, where jousting takes place.

Since moving to Cathar Country in the South of France, near Carcassonne, I've wanted to do something inspired by the area. This pic is taken from my tourist guide, along with a pic of a knight jousting that I cut out. This one may take me a while - current thinking is to do the castle as fabric collage and FME, then the knights using Bayeau Tapestry stitching...