Maker: Jean Arnott

Panel number: 446

Maker’s name: Jean Arnott

Petition sheet number: Did not sign 1893 petition

Person honouring: Alma Edith Marshall

Relationship to makers: Maternal grandmother

Alma Marshall [born Wescombe] was widowed and left to run a farm and raise two daughters. Although she made her living in what was then a man’s world she just got on with things, never drawing attention to herself. For 60 years she ran the farm – battling rabbits, floods, depression, and the dry weather in North Otago.

Panel materials: White cotton sheet. DMC stranded cotton 676 Yellow DMC Pearl threads: pink, yellow, and mauve Silko 40 Mercerised cotton (D.24, mauve and white). Crochet motif done by Alma in Coats Crochet Cotton. Laminated paper for date. Photos printed on cotton fabric (labelled underneath). All from my own stash.