PARTICIPANTS J - L 

In alphabetical order by first or group name

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Updated 17 November 2009

NOW WITH BIGGER PHOTOS!

All the catalogued pieces from J - L are now on this page. There are one or two pieces which we received at the last minute that we don't yet have photos of. If you're wondering where your piece is, please drop us a line here.

Knitted traffic cone

Jane Smith, Nottingham, England

Knitted scarf, 78” X 10”

Janet Soutar, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Knitted scarf, 78” X 10”

Jenny Jacques, Dunoon, Scotland

To all who are organising this please may I congratulate you on your dedication to show others that we are doing something different for welcoming people back to Scotland, and also the tremendous task afterwards.

I go to the Dunoon knitting club which has around 10 – 15 regular members. I have been knitting since a small child, and will be 60 next January!! I hope that my strip will help! I have 12 grandchildren ranging from 17 to 3. 9 girls and 3 boys, so am knitting their Christmas presents for this year.

I wish you all the best.

Crochet scarf, 78” x 10”  

Knitted scarf, 78" x 10"

Jessica Darago, Arlington, VA, USA

Skye visitor, (slightly) Scottish-American, wrote novel about the Skye clearances and mill like New Lanark – where this wool is from.

Crocheted rectangle, 35 x 36 cm

Rectangles  

Joan Macrae, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Joan gave us a real shot in the arm about this project. She lives in Kyleakin and popped in to see us in the Village Hall on Worldwide Knit in Public Day. She hadn’t knitted for around 40 years, since her children were very young, and now felt she never would, due to failing eyesight. She stayed for a wee while and had a cup of tea with us. Later in the day, she reappeared, having decided she would give it a go after all! We were so delighted, but even more so when she came by Rag Tag n Textile on another day to pick up even more wool. Since that day, we’ve seen quite a lot of Joan. To my mind, she’s one of our biggest success stories!

Knitted scarf, 200 x 26 cm

Joan Murphy, London, England

These scarves have been knitted by a lady called Joan Murphy, who lives in Croydon an dwho has Alzheimers. She loves to knit as it keeps her busy. Her daughter has been throwing them away, until I received them. I hope that you can put them to good use on the bridge - Liz Goumas, carer

11 small scarves

Joanna Braggins, Ceres, Fife, Scotland

From East Coast to West Coast - I chose the wool (cotton braid) - wiggley - to reflect the waves - ripples on the sand.  I used big needles, 20 mm, so I got the effect of a net. The small stones with holes, which are supposed to bring good luck(!), came from Covehive Beach in Suffolk. I used blue ribbon to show tonality of water. The shells are worn down limpets from a lovely beach near Rhue House, Arisaig. My friend Keren brought home the bits of plastic from a beach in Sardinia. There were piles of mosaiced plastic lying washed up on the beach from ocean debris. I am very happy with my finished article as I don't knit very often.

Knitted and embellished scarf

Joey Graham, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Knitted rectangle from our pattern 

Judith Morley, Leighton Buzzard, England

Happy Holidays on Skye.

Knitted scarf, 200 x 30 cm

Judith Korving-Sansing, Breda, The Netherlands

Dear Ladies (and Lords) of the Skye bridge It has been my pleasure to knit a small piece to keep the bridge warm this autumn. I made a pattern especially for it.

The outer border represents my country flag: red, white, and blue. Inside the red, white and blue border is my province's flat: Noord Brabant's red and white checker board. The inner border is the red gingham which is so typical for my province. The shield in the centre of the piece belongs to my city, Breda.

By making this "local" piece, I'm bringing the place to live in to the place that I love.

This year, I had the pleasure of showing the country so close to my heart to my darling husband of almost 3 years. We still don't live on the same continent, so being able to show hiim the area that caught my heart 10 years ago was something special. We may be living in the Netherlands or Texas but, one day, one day, we'll find our own patch right there, somewhere close to the Skye Bridge. We'll just have to argue on which side of it to settle...

I've enclosed some pictures of our time on Skye, the Lochalsh and Applecross areas. Regrettably, we weren't able to meet the team but, rest assured, some of this was actually knit right there (almost) in view of the bridge. We loved our stay, I hope the bridge will love my piece just as much.

2 knitted rectangles

Judy Kerr, Harwich, England

I’m English but my husband is of Scottish (and Irish) ancestry. I’ve been to Scotland only once. A road trip – Stirling, Fort William, Inverness, Perth, Edinburgh – with side trip to Arbroath to buy a Jack Russell puppy we named “Whisky” (well, he was Black & White, LOL). I loved Scotland and want to go back and see more!

When I told DH I was going to crochet something to help cover the Skye Bridge (he didn’t bat an eye, by the way; he’s used to me), he said, “Can you do a Kerr tartan?” Now there was an idea…

I would have liked it to be more than just one repeat of the pattern but that was all I could fit into the size required.

Crocheted rectangle, 19” x 16”

Judy Love, Scarborough, Western Australia

Knitted scarf, 154 x 35 cm   

June Scroggin, Tuczon, Arizona, USA

I wrote a blog post about the project: http://junie-moon.blogspot.com. Thank you for the opportunity to be part of Scotland’s celebrations.

I wanted to participate in Scotland’s Homecoming 2009 activities to celebrate all that Scotland has contributed to the world as well as in loving memory of my mother, Edna Grey Southerland Rapp (May 6, 1930–August 1, 2004)—who was very proud of being a direct descendent of Clan Sutherland.

Knitted scarf, Cascade Yarns Bollicine in the color Dolly (#908), 100% merino wool, 78" x 14"  

Katherine Jackson, Edinburgh, Scotland

I’ve lived in Scotland for 11 years having originated south of the border.

The colours I chose remind me of the swirling mist you get all the time in the hills (except, oddly enough, when I went to Skye, when the sun shone, and the sky was blue).

Worked on this during Wimbledon 2009: supporting a Scottish player, of course!

Wishing you the best of luck with the project.

Knitted scarf, 200 x 23 cm 

Kathy Curran, Newport on Tay, Scotland

Enclosed some crochet stuff for the Bridge Project.

Hope I’m not too late. Been having trouble with arthritis in my hands!! I hope you will manage to use them.

I look forward to seeing pictures of the bridge on TV or online.

Best of luck with everything.

Crocheted rectangles, various sizes 

Katie MacEwan Kean, Lochalsh, Scotland

Katie is Fiona's daughter, aged 11!

Knitted rectangle and 4 strands scarf knitted on giant needles

Kinnaird Kaleidoscope Knitting Group, Fraserburgh, Scotland

Kinnaird Kaleidoscope Knitting Group knitted a host of fishermen's poles cosies around the Kinnaird lighthouse in summer 09 and offered us some of them for the bridge. Janette unpicked and washed half a dozen of them for us.

6 x knitted fishermen's poles cosies

Kirsty Dick, Cambridge, England

3 knitted rectangles - stocking stitch, garter stitch, moss stitch

Kirsty Stewart, Edinburgh, Scotland

I’ve only started knitting this year, although I’ve known the basics since I was a child. In fact, it was my childhood in Uist which prompted me to join in. I used to travel through Skye a couple of times every year although it was in the days of the Kyle – Kyleakin ferry. As a student, I went to Uist as aften as possible but by then the Bridge had been built. My knitting is not very accomplished and the pattern I made up as I went along but I hope it helps. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished article and reading stories undoubtedly more interesting than my own.

PS I picked the colours of Aberdeen Football Club as they’re striking and the team is popular with Gaels :-)

Knitted scarf, 200 x 26 cm

Kyle Girls Brigade, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland

Knitted rectangles and shapes, various sizes

Kyle Youth Cafe, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland

Various knitted rectangles sewn into a panel and embellished

Kyleakin Primary School, Isle of Skye, Scotland

We tried our best!

4 knitted rectangles

Laura Hughes, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England

When we were courting my boyfriend took me to the Isle of Skye, before the bridge was built. We are still together and Skye holds many wonderful memories for me."

Crocheted scarf, 200 x 26 cm 

Laurie Fuller, Lochalsh, Scotland

This got her back to knitting for the first time since she was a child!

Knitted rectangle with appliqued knitted saltire 

Lenge Hong, New York, USA

My mother was born in Glasgow and moved to the States as a child, where she met my dad, who’s from China. She and my grandmother raised me to love and feel at home in Scotland, and I’ve spent a good amount of time there -though not as much as I’d like. I only found out about the Stitches on the Bridge project a couple of weeks ago, so I didn’t have time for anything bigger than the minimum 20 x 26 cm swatch. But it’s purple, my mom’s favourite color, and since I couldn’t make it “home” for 2009, at least this little square will represent us…

Knitted Stitches pattern rectangle, 20 x 26 cm 

2 x knitted rectangles

Linda Gibson, Paisley, Scotland

Knitted scarf, 200 x 41 cm 

Liz Ogilvie, Isle of Skye, Scotland

The idea of covering the Skye Bridge with knitting appealed to me straight away. And as someone who can’t sit down at home without picking up the knitting needles, it seemed that at last there might be a place for the various stripes that have resulted.  They’re mostly shades of blue, grey and green, which seemed to be a wee bit like the Skye landscape, so it was almost as if the knitting was “coming home”!

Knitted scarf, 200 x 41 cm 

Loch Court Knitting Group, Aberdeen, Scotland

The A group of ladies from 65 to 85, who meet weekly at the Aberdeen's Loch Court sheltered housing complex, working with community arts officer, Margaret Stewart, knitted a 14 foot long Aberdeen scarf for Stitches. They had their photo taken with Dons striker Tommy Wright at Aberdeen Football Club's ground at Pittodrie Stadium.

The scarf was stolen from the Skye Bridge on the last night but thankfully found in Kyle about a week later!

Knitted scarf, 14 feet long!

Rectangles and 2 scarves - Margaret and Blanche sewing their long purple scarf into a panel with other pieces

Louise N Percy, London, England

4 x knitted scarves, 116 x 25cm, 130 x 26cm, 82 x 23cm, 128 x 11cm 

Lucy Bailey, Builth Wells, Wales

24th October [Under the Stitches day] is also 350.org's Day of Climate Action, so I thought this would be an opportunity to knit a 350 banner out of recycled carrier bag "plarn" to raise awareness about clmiate change. Many thanks to friends and family who provided carrier bags for me to "recycle" for them!