C'mon, Nan... Give!

OK, OK, OK -- it ain't easy to see what the images from that yarn painting are supposed to be.. and the larger the magnification the more obscure they are. I appreciate notes from Bernard Cornwell, Susan Higginbotham and Helen Hollick expressing pleasure to have been included in the "painting" but I suspect they were being generous.

So here are detailed explanations of the images nd the books they represent.

Hopefully you can see the numbers... there is an extra 6 - ignore it.

1.  This is a black king chesspiece, honoring the chess theme of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond sries and intended to represent the final volume, Checkmate.

2.  A white pawn,, for Dunnett's Pawn in Frankincense.

3.  A lemon flying through the air.  In The Toss of a Lemon, the father asks the midwife to throw a lemon out the window at the precise moment of his children's births so he can create an astrology chart.

4.  Two images from Margaret George's Helen of Troy: in the foreground, a sacred snake biting its own tale, and behind it the Trojan horse.

5.  A red and white rose to honor both families in Susan Higginbotham's Wars of the Roses novel, The Stolen Crown.

6.  A Russian orthodox church dome in honor of Lymond's stay in Ivan the Terrible's empire in Dunnett's The Ringed Castle.

7.  Jesamiah Acorne's lethal blue hair ribbon in Helen Hollick's pirate adventures starting with Sea Witch.

8.  A globe  representing the search for Prester John's kingdom in Umberto Eco's Baudolino.

9.  My own novel in progress.  a shield with an upside-down duck on it.  You will have to read the novel when it comes out to see what that was all about!

10.  A scafffold and headsma's ax, one of several from Brandy Purdy's The Boleyn Wife, published in England as The Tudor Wife by Emily Purdy.

11.  A Napoleon ic Imperial Eagle from any of the Bernard Cornwell Richard Sharpe's  Adventure Series, in particular Sharpe's Eagle.  It was this image in gold I started this yarn painting with.

12. A shoe, from one of the stories in The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

13. Three men and a woman in a canoe with affectionate reference to the main characters from Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael Gear's People of the Lakes.  They are, left to right, Black Skull, Green Spider - a contrary, sitting backwardsand holding up a mask - Pearl and Otter. 

You can see the color image on this post.

HTH.