The Minister

Our group meet in the top room of Pultneytown Parish Church. It is a wonderful room for close work as the light is good. Its small enough to warm up quickly and the facilities are extremely well kept. Over the past 3 months our Minister Stuart Farmes has been popping up to see our progress and has been a source of encouragement. This week we got a needle in his hand and he put a stitch in our panel.

This panel has its own history and its own story to add to the scene we are depicting. We've had visitors from Australia, America and now our own Minister has added a stitch.

Dolly has more fleece on her. She has so many French Knots Celia lost count of them.

Joan has been watching the Hen Harrier's from her sitting room window and now we have our own on the panel. This is the female which has a distinctive plumage. They have 'red' status on the RSPB site as there are endangered.

We couldn't possibly have a panel from Caithness without a boat. Its such an important part of the heritage it would be impossible to discount it. In the latter 1800's Wick was one of the biggest herring ports in the world and the coastline of Caithness has numerous harbours.  This was a typical boat of the 1850s which Dorothy stitched.

The group all working on the panel at the same time.