A Bug's Life

Are you likely to finish the "dancers" lace?

If you aren't (and I know what it's like: for me, the minute I take a knitting project off the needles they're on--because I need those particular needles for something else--and slide the half-done piece onto waste yarn, I know realistically that I'm not going to come back to it however good my intentions), why not seize it as the first diving-into-the-sea-of-design project? Fix it on fabric as you described, but permanently and on something big and good to work on, then extend the dancers using different techniques and materials, making it the centre of some wonderful experiment. Add macrame. Add fibre optics (those lamps are way cool: I want to knit something like that--now!).

Your lace teacher would hate this, of course.