The patchwork quilt has been found! I wrote about it in January on
this blog, with a very grainy photograph reproduced from a newspaper, and now
I’ve got the real thing. My storyteller
friend Claire Hewitt, who was with me when I first saw it at Kinloch Rannoch
primary school prompted its rediscovery when she was on a journey around
Highland Perthshire, doing the eighty odd miles of the Etape in eight days and
collecting stories on the way. She
found a good few stories, and she found the quilt. The Etape is a timed cycle race on closed roads that the keen
cyclists put their heads down and do in a few hours, but Claire decided keep
her head up and take her time, and I’m very glad she did. She went into Kinloch Rannoch school and had
them telling stories, then took out some red and white squares for the kids to
sign in homage to the quilt we thought was lost. But thankfully it was still in the school and Claire and I have
now got it. We’re looking for a good
home but it needs somewhere that can show it and help gather and tell its many
stories.
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
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