A unique quilted map of Scotland will go on show in the north-east later this month.
The huge map took a group of 36 women from across Scotland – who got together through social media – about nine months to complete.
Each volunteer for the Knitting a Nation project was given an A4 rectangle outline and a suggested colour palette, but were allowed to let their imaginations do the rest.
The Buchanhaven Heritage Society in Peterhead will display the quirky map before it heads to Elgin next month, in the days leading up to the independence referendum.
Alex Geddes, chairman of the heritage society, said: “We were delighted to offer our heritage centre for such a wonderful piece of art and to hear the story behind its creation was very inspiring.”
Volunteers worked both individually and in groups over a nine month period.
Once their rectangles were complete, they were assembled into the large-scale map of Scotland, blocked, backed and framed by textile artist and knitting designer Elena Costella.
The finished patchwork, described by the group as a “kaleidoscope of impressions, memories and interpretations of women from places as far apart as Shetland and the Borders, Lewis and Aberdeen”, has been made the subject of a documentary by a European team.
It has also attracted the attention of the National Collective, a non-party-political group of artists which supports independence.