Fishy goings on at Buckie's Cluny Square thanks to craft group
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THERE is a decidedly nautical theme to be found in Buckie's Cluny Square and other parts of town dues to a local community group.
Thanks to the hard work of Crafty Roots – the crafter section of Buckie's Roots – four colourful panels plus a post box topper are bringing their own rays of sunshine to the centre of Buckie.
Inspired by the theme Buckie by the Sea, this is the third year Crafty Roots have been brightening up the town with the panels.
Cluny Square is home to two of the panels – entitled Beautiful Sea Life and The Rainbow of Fish – with a panel called Oh, Happy Rays in the library and a fourth one named A Sparkling Shoal at Cluny Fish on Low Street. Just along the road at Eat Mair Fish the post box topper, called Sid and Friends, can be seen.
Creating the panels, which are made of knitted items, was a real community effort, said Sandra Simpson from Crafty Roots.
"It took the community as a whole to make it happen.
"Buckie Community Shop took in the wool – we had a lot of donated wool – and the patterns, while we got curtains from a charity shop to use as the backing for the panels.
"The fish and the other creatures were knitted by the community. We had so much we had to do an extra panel to get it all in.
"The local Rainbows knitted the pebbles.
"Once we had all the things in we put it all together.
"This year was the first time we've done a post box topper and it's proved very popular.
"People have been so interested in what we were going to do for this year's theme and it's turned out amazing. It's been really fun doing it and the creatures in the panels have taken on a life of their own.
"This has been good for the local bairns, too, everyone has taken part.
"We'll swap round the panel on the noticeboard in the square with the one in the library so it doesn't get too damaged by the sun."
Crafty Roots first display featured four panels in Cluny Square during the pandemic, with the following year seeing the focus fall on a Rabbie Burns-inspired craft bomb centred around the noticeboard in Cluny Square.
Another project taking wing is none other than Steven Seagull, a knitted gull whose travels and adventures will feature on the group's Facebook page. His wanderings began in a right royal fashion – quite literally – when he accompanied Buckie's Roots chairwoman Meg Jamieson and other group members to meet the King at a royal garden party held recently at Holyrood in Edinburgh.
To follow Steven's travels this summer, and for other Buckie's Roots news, follow the group's Facebook page.
