Joan finished stitching her jumper and her face and hands so we now give her a name. She is named after a teacher from long ago who was stern but kindly.
Dorothy stitched in a few French knots to her headband. She also had given her a rollmop herring as her hair net bun to signify how important the herring industry was to Caithness.
Louise stitched the books on the table in long and short stitch using two colours to give a shading and imitate writing. She looked up books from that time on Google images and there were books with these colours. Louise also stitched the slates in satin stitch and stem stitch.
She took some photos of some Caithness slates to get an idea of the colours. It took her 5 hours to stitch the books and the slates and then outline the table.
Joan stitched the girls dresses and sleeves. She used couched trellis,
closed finer couched trellis and bokhara stitch which was to signify the
fishing nets from the fishing industry. It took Joan about 7 hours of
stitching time to achieve this. She said it was again relaxing and quite
therapeutic and it was having the effect on her akin to stroking a cat
or a dog.
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