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Heartlands - Logierait

BY THE HEARTLANDS STITCHERS

Logierait Butterfly Project Journey Stone
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TELLING THE STORY OF THE HEARTLANDS PANEL

This journey stone illustrates the multi-award-winning Logierait Primary School Butterfly Project started in 2015 as a way to increase the numbers of butterflies and moths due to habitat loss.

Within five years, 1000+ had been reared and released. In the Butterfly House more than 7 species now breed and the school also grows the food plants needed for them. In 2019 they featured at the RHS with their Pocket Garden made from recycled materials, being a fairy garden with butterflies as transport.

Nairn, Wilma and Stefania created the panel. Nairn is 6 and a pupil at the school. He says:

I really like my school because it is small and everyone is friends. Mr Barr does the butterfly project with us and last year I brought a caterpillar home with the leaves that they like. Every week I would take it back to school until eventually it became a butterfly. My interests are football and swimming. I also like Diary of a Wimpy Kid books and my favourite music is Michael Jackson and because he has good dance moves.

Wilma has short story published in a book about life in Highland Scotland which tells of living a comfortable life in a nice house but being unhappy and ending up in a rough council area until going back to College, and later getting job.

My story is basically saying, you can have all the material things in life but at the end of the day for me, it was the friends I made, the people I met and could help that made a big change in my life. I also found myself returning to the church and the faith I had abandoned a long time before.

Stefania relocated from Romania with her children and is a student:

I enjoyed doing embroidery for this project it was relaxing and brought me joy.

She was taught to sew at school and by both grandmothers, and is now teaching her daughter

Nairn, of the Heartlands Stitchers
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Wilma and Nairn, and his brother, of the Heartlands Stitchers
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Stefania, of the Heartlands Stitchers
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Many thanks to the Heartland Stitchers, and to Nairn, Wilma and Stefania, for sharing with us this incredible story behind their panel, created as part of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands.

READ MORE STORIES FROM THE TAPESTRY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS

Prior to the beginning of the stitching of each tapestry panel, each stitcher of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands was tasked with telling their interpretation of the 'Spirit of the Highlands and Islands' within a blank outline of a stone. The possibilities were truly endless - is it represented in the land? The people? A historical site? A favourite memory?

In any case, each journey stone represents the connection between each individual stitcher, their story, and their own sense, or 'spirit', of place. Discover more of the stories behind the journey stones of the Tapestry of the Highlands and Islands here.