Stitchers turn heads

During a public stitching event at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin embroiderers Jeanette Trotman (left) and Judy Mason display a stitched panel devoted to the founding of New Zealand's first regional Automobile Association, in Otago. Photo: Peter McI
During a public stitching event at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin embroiderers Jeanette Trotman (left) and Judy Mason display a stitched panel devoted to the founding of New Zealand's first regional Automobile Association, in Otago. Photo: Peter McIntosh.
Several Toitu Otago Museum visitors, including overseas tourists, paid close attention yesterday to Dunedin embroiderers working on a stitched panel for a national ''History of Stitch'' project.

Since last year, members of the Otago Embroiderers' Guild have held about 20 awareness-raising stitching sessions at the museum, working on panels for the ''New Zealand: A History in Stitch'' project.

Nine of the panels have been completed by embroiderers' guilds throughout the country, including one in Dunedin, on the founding of Otago.

Jeanette Trotman and Judy Mason yesterday worked on a stitched panel devoted to the founding of New Zealand's first regional Automobile Association, in Otago in 1903.

Mrs Trotman said ''a great feeling of camaraderie'' had grown among the embroiderers involved in the project, and many visitors were also ''very interested'' in it.

The Tapestry Trust of New Zealand was founded in Dunedin in 2010 and is creating about 100 panels depicting New Zealand's history.

Mrs Trotman is the trust secretary, a fabric artist and past-president of the Otago Embroiderers' Guild.

john.gibb@odt.co.nz

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