Do you enjoy knitting or sewing? ATLAS needs your help to make Silver Darlings!

What is this project about?
ATLAS are inviting you to knit or make a Silver Darling for a shoal of fish to welcome the Celeste into Portree Harbour on the 10th September as part of the Bàta Brèagha / Bonnie Boat event for the Year of Scotland’s Islands. Silver Darlings will then be sold or auctioned in aid of the local RNLI. Each fish will be on exhibition but it is entirely up to the maker whether to put their fish up for auction.

Want to know how to knit a fish?
See instructions below or drop in and collect a pattern from Isle of Skye Crafts, Over the Rainbow, Quay Brae, Portree, the Skye Baking Company, Dunvegan Rd, Portree or from Cuillin FM & Skye.co.uk or http://hi-arts.co.uk/projects/atlas/bonnie-boat/

Hand your finished fish into:
Isle of Skye Crafts, Over the Rainbow, Quay Brae, Portree or Isle of Skye Baking Company, Old Skye Woollen Mill, Dunvegan Rd, Portree or post to P.O. Box 6318, Portree, Isle of Skye, IV51 0AF.

Fish Exchange:

KNITTING PATTERN & FISHING RULES

Fishing Rules:

• Silver, cream, pale grey, sequins, beads and bling permitted!!! (lace, crochet, knit, embroidery, quilt, felt )
• Your Herring should not be more than 30cm in length (small fish and fat fish allowed)
• Materials : Try and use what you have got or recycle if you can
• Have as much fun as possible

How to Knit a Fish:

• Cast on 16 stitches
• Decrease on every row until you have 6 stitches
• Increase on every row until you have 20 stitches
• Knit length you require for your fish body
• Decrease on every row until you have 1 stitch remaining
• Cast off
• Knit another side, stitch both together and stuff!!

For more information contact Deirdre at d.stitched@btopenworld.com
Web: http://hi-arts.co.uk/projects/atlas/bonnie-boat/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/atlasartpeopleplace
Website: www.deirdre-nelson.com
Blog: www.dstitch.blogspot.com
Facebook: The Fish Exchange
For photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61760086@N06/show/

ABOUT ATLAS
ATLAS was established in 2010 to generate innovative and ambitious visual arts projects in Skye and Lochalsh. ATLAS is a platform for the creation of projects which are not fixed by, or to, a permanent gallery space. ATLAS aspires to generate vibrant contemporary art practice in the context of Skye and Lochalsh through high quality projects, incorporating educational work and involvement from the community in a variety of forms, and placing this work within a local, national and international context. ATLAS is funded by Creative Scotland and supported by HI-Arts. To learn more about ATLAS’s work go to http://www.atlasarts.org.uk/