The Scottish Parliament

The Great Scottish Tapestry has been exhibited in the Scottish Parliament.
Celia, Dorothy, Catherine, Shirley and Valerie went down to the preview day for the stitchers on 2nd September.

Ella and Louise went on different days. Joan is waiting until it tours closer to home.

Louise took the family and whilst the whole event was overwhelming for them they were delighted to see the Caithness panel and tell other visitors that they too had taken part in its making.
Louise got talking to other visitors and was stood in front of the panel for 45 minutes telling everyone with great pride of her groups part in the Tapestry.

The group felt the whole tapestry together was amazing, overwhelming, artistic and beautifully stitched.  We also had to deal with the fact that our panel has been handed to the people of Scotland and is not ours any more. We felt that our panels quality was equal to the rest of the panel and we were really proud to be part of Scotlands History.

The exhibition has attracted over 300,000 visitors and it is going on tour around Scotland and then is going back to the Scottish Parliament in 2014 for 3 months. Louise would recommend taking 2 hours to look at it all and breaking for lunch in the very reasonable cafe in the Parliament and also go have a look in the debating chamber if you can as the Parliament building is very artistic and design elements are hidden around every corner.

Our textile artist group will carry on with the theme of Caithness Inspired work until Christmas. It is nice to be able to be free to paint, cut, stick materials again but seeing the panel again made us miss it.