Puetchan Cemetery

I am working on my Scotland Quilted series again and have started my Puetchan Cemetery piece. It is waiting for borders and then some detailed stitching and quilting. Puetchan is such a distinctive structure on the main road to Campbeltown! The tower ediface is part of the McAlister plot. McAlisters are the Lairds in the area, seated in Glen Barr Abbey. I wanted this piece to be misty and not too clear, kind of a Mists of Time look. Still working on that!--The project so far....

I shall post the original photo when I have downsized it so it is not so enormous. A number of my husband's relatives are buried here so it is a very meaningful spot to us!

Yes, Sir, Yes, Sir, three blackfaced sheepses! 

                                                     One of the photos I am working from.

New project

I have stared at my photos of Patchen Cemetery on the wild west coast of Kintyre for a long time , trying to decide what to do with them. Patchen is an ancient cemetery right on the sea cliff with the North Atlantic at its feet. It is said that some of the unmarked lumps in the back corner of the cemetery are graves of drowned sailors whose bodies washed ashore following storms . Some graves are new but many have barely legible inscriptions and a number of souls related to my husband's family are buried there. Standing in front of those gravestones transports us back to the day when his ancestors would have stood on that same spot mourning the loss of a loved one. Being inside the enclosure at Patchen is like being inside a time machine! The big towers that face the highway are part of the enclosure where generations of MacAlisters, the local lairds, are buried.

Some or all of these pictures will form the basis of my next project- The Patchen Quilt!