Monday 28 January 2013

Week 3

We looked on in wonder at Joans finished work. She has used long and short stitch in white for the teachers top and it looks just like a fluffy warm woolly jumper. Its very tactile too and I had to stop people who wanted to 'pet it'.


 Louise had it home for the week and started on the teachers book. She used a long and short stitch for the cover and the spine and inside pages - photo to follow of it complete. The edge of the pages were in a laid couch work and she thought it looked most like the edges of pages. She said that although she was daunted by the project and was being very careful not to make any mistakes once she had started stitching she really enjoyed it. She is going to go back over the cover of the book as there are some areas not covered enough.
 This is Dorothy's sample for inserting in the bottom right corner. This is a design her grandson drew for Caithness Textile Artists 5 years ago. It depicts a herring, the sea and a needle.
Louise took photos of her kitchen door to get a pattern for the school desk as it was agreed to stem or split stitch a wood grain on it.  This idea was taken from the PrestonPans Tapestry book the group purchased.

Thursday 17 January 2013

Week 2

It has begun in earnest. Joan has been busy all week stitching in our School teachers blouse. She used a sloping long and short stitch on the arm with shading.
She was concerned about the tension so the sides will be lashed to the edges as well as the top and bottom.

Joan said "I enjoy embroidery and enjoyed stitching on the tapestry. I find it refreshing and very relaxing after spending my entire working life in health care and being around illness so to find that I can create in my 70's is marvellous"
We received a package of other colours of the wools from Dorie which was lovely to open. Dorothy has organised them all in a briefcase in numbered ziplock bags to go along with the key.

The rest of the group has decided to work on various Textile Art with a related theme of 'Inspired by Caithness' whilst the tapestry project is ongoing. Celia was thinking about the sea. Louise was photographing and then painting Caithness Flagstones.




Tuesday 8 January 2013

Day One

Caithness Textile Artists are a group of like minded crafty people who love to work with textiles. In 2012 it signed up to stitch on a panel for The Great Tapestry of Scotland.
This is our journey.

Valerie has been the instigator for our group to participate in this project. We decided it was only fair that she took the first stitch on our panel which depicts a Caithness School Room in 1851.

We have sent it home with Joan this week. This blog is to document our progress.