A New Year, a New Project.

The group decided to use up some of the materials we had in our cupboard. They were divided out and then the group decided to have the theme of 'Inspired by Caithness'.

Sorting out the materials.

Joan painting her bondaweb.

Celia's 'hoosey', Dorothy's field of silver and Ella's wee bag

Shirley's couching sampler.

Ella and Ann wind wee skeins of silk. They were doing this for most of the morning!

Louise's embroidery of Morven and the Flow Country.

Messy Fun

Anne has been encouraging us all to wet felt. As the group is easily swayed by pretty colours and messy fun we had a go and made some corsages for Christmas.

Catherine opted for the less messy 'needle felting' version.

Here are some finished objects the group has been working on.

 This is Shirley's take on Caithness Flagstones.

 This is an embroidered cover for a notebook by Louise.

 Dorothy has made some Harris Tweed cushions.

 Catherine has made a beautiful quilt from Tweed.

 Celia wished us all a Merry Christmas. The tree was from the lutrador sandwich she made cut up and stitched over.

Joan has a habit of finding her scissors around her house and puts them into her bag for safe keeping. At last count she had 6 pairs. The group is okay for scissors if Joan has her Mary Poppins bag.

We are in Print

The Great Scottish Tapestry books came. We ordered ours through the Book Depository.

 

It was very satisfying having our hard work in print and the book is very professionally written and published. It was a nice book to sit down with a cup of tea and ponder through. 

Whilst we expected some more information on the stitchers and some photos there was a small list of our names and where in Caithness we were based. The photos do not do the panels justice so we recommend all readers of the blog to go visit the tapestry if they can. It is so far confirmed that it is going to be exhibited in Aberdeen, New Lanark and the Scottish Parliament in 2014 with more dates to be announced. Also noted on the Scottish Parliament in their 'Highlights of 2013' was the opening of the tapestry exhibition. We were proud of this fact.