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Feminist crafters, how about we make a MN banner to march behind?

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 07/03/2011 10:26

don't you think?

a big cloth one with beanpoles (and tassles at the corners, in manner of old trade union banners) carried by 2 people.

ideally it would be appliqued but could be painted instead.

I think we should do this because:

  1. trade union style banners are a fabulous craft tradition that should be continued
  2. doing one for Mumsnet would bring together old and new in a way that I think would make people look twice
  3. lovely banners increase the visual appeal of a march and thus encourage people to look again and hopefully see the slogany ones
  4. there were so many of us at MWR, probably 40-50 including children, surely a contingent that size needs a banner?

wdyt?

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LadyBiscuit · 11/03/2011 11:32

Are we going to be able to fit it all on ssm if we stick to the dimensions you gave earlier for the letters/logo? Cutting out a letter from fabric and some bits of card is about the extent of my embroidery/haberdashery skills!

UmYeahLikeTotally · 11/03/2011 11:27

I'd love to contribute :)
I don't mind about which letters/doing a few of them if needed.

UmYeahLikeTotally · 11/03/2011 11:27

I'd love to contribute :)
I don't mind about which letters/doing a few of them if needed.

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 11/03/2011 11:09

Now that there will definitely be a slogan, that will be a job for someone too, though it's not clear yet how many letters there will be and hence what's the best way to do it (eg if it's Deeds and Words we might applique, if it's We wash ourselves in the blood of the patriarchy another method might be better.)

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LadyBiscuit · 11/03/2011 11:06

steamedtreacle - I am not going to make any templates until next week because I'm in birthday hell. Do you want to choose a letter from one of the ones that there are multiples of?

I think they are M, N, I, E, T and S from memory :)

steamedtreaclesponge · 11/03/2011 10:51

I can help! I love doing crafty things and would be more than happy to do a letter or two...

Sorry, am coming a bit late to this thread as have been ill and offline all week Sad

RumpelstiltskinsHat · 10/03/2011 21:04

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StewieGriffinsMom · 10/03/2011 20:39

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bucaneve · 10/03/2011 17:37

Aw thanks Stayfrosty :)

LadyBiscuit · 10/03/2011 16:03

I'm sure stayfrosty would be happy to give one up :o

This is better as it means no one has more than two letters to do. I will add in different names if more people want to make a letter. I'm sure it won't be the end of the world if the templates aren't identical

-m - ENGELBERT
-u - dittany
-m - ENGELBERT
-s - stayfrosty
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-e - GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-t - Flamingo
-f - BoF
-e - GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-m - LadyBiscuit
-i - SCALLOPS
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-i - SCALLOPS
-s - stayfrosty
-t - Flamingo
-s - Bucaneve

StayFrosty · 10/03/2011 16:02

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bucaneve · 10/03/2011 15:58

Hi, could I possibly take a letter off of someone who has several? Pretty please. Maybe an S off of stayfrosty who seems stuck with the most smiles winningly :)

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 10/03/2011 14:31

You can put your sloganeering brain to work, Elephants here

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 10/03/2011 14:28

You are all brilliant.

I can't wait to see how it all comes together, and carry it at RTN :)

LadyBiscuit · 10/03/2011 14:25

Good thinking seth. I will take back one of the Ms from Engelbert as I would like to see the banner with some of my (crappy) handiwork on it.

I emailed MN for font details and they have asked for a photo of the finished oeuvre :)

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 10/03/2011 14:23

we could provisionally leave it like that but if anyone else would like to do it they could just go ahead and take a letter over from someone who has several.

have ordered Bondaweb (local shop had sold out).

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LadyBiscuit · 10/03/2011 14:20

What do people think of my idea that you take all of each letter? So then the list would look like this:

-m - ENGELBERT
-u - dittany
-m - ENGELBERT
-s - stayfrosty
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-e - GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-t - Flamingo
-f - BoF
-e - GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-m - ENGELBERT
-i - SCALLOPS
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-i - SCALLOPS
-s - stayfrosty
-t - Flamingo
-s - stayfrosty

Or is that going to be too much for people? I seem to have cunningly cut myself out of the list if we do that though :o

EngelbertFustianMcSlinkydog · 10/03/2011 12:54

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HandDivedScallopsrgreat · 10/03/2011 12:51

I'll do an i - it will probably be a bit easier for patchwork.

-m-ENGELBERT
-u - dittany
-m - LADYBISCUIT
-s - stayfrosty
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-e- GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-t - Flamingo
-f - BoF
-e
-m
-i - SCALLOPS
-n
-i
-s
-t
-s

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 10/03/2011 12:37

Flamingo and BoF had fallen off.

-m-ENGELBERT
-u - dittany
-m - LADYBISCUIT
-s - stayfrosty
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-e- GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-t - Flamingo
-f - BoF
-e
-m
-i
-n
-i
-s
-t
-s

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GhostInTheBackOfYourHead · 10/03/2011 12:25

I will take the Es...it's been a while Grin

-m-ENGELBERT
-u - dittany
-m - LADYBISCUIT
-s - stayfrosty
-n - RumpelstiltskinsHat
-e- GhostInTheBackOfYourHead
-t
-f
-e
-m
-i
-n
-i
-s
-t
-s

StewieGriffinsMom · 10/03/2011 09:14

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 10/03/2011 08:51

I think slogan needs further discussion; it might be good to have a proper discussion involving non-crafty MN feminists about it, just to make sure we end up with the best possible; does someone want to start a thread? We might want to use the slogan for other purposes so it needs thinking about quite hard.

the layout I have in mind has quite a lot of spare vertical space so it can be slotted in easily.

what I am thinking is, it can be appliqued or embroidered (or even painted) onto a scroll which can itself be appliqued onto the main banner. The best way of doing it might depend on how long the slogan is - it might be anything from 2 words to a dozen.

meanwhile we can proceed with the rest of the job and then rejig the layout at the end depending on what we end up with.

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LadyBiscuit · 09/03/2011 22:00

There is no way I can get any templates done by Saturday - it's DS's birthday on Monday and he's having a party on Saturday and we have a big family gathering on Sunday, both of which I have shedloads of stuff to do for. Talking of which, I really should get to bed!

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sethstarkaddersmackerel · 09/03/2011 22:00

We need to be done in time for Reclaim the Night in November Grin

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