IT has been 40 months in the making and now a group of ladies and festival organisers are celebrating after an embroidery was revealed.

It has been lovingly stitched by Kings and Headbourne Worthy residents as part of the Worthys Festival. It was recently installed in a special frame in the entrance to Kings Worthy Primary School.

The designers, Jill Bentley and Jackie Langfeld, worked with volunteers to make the piece. They are: Lynne Archer, Joan Bancroft, Michelle Dennison-Hall, Eleanor Hamblin, Joan Jarrett, Shirley Lovell, Jenny Martin, Natalie Newman, Clare Smith, Claire Welland, Margaret Woodley and Alison Woolford.

The panels reflect life in the Worthys through history, including the church, school, women’s institute, and various events from floods in 2014 to the Olympic torch relay.

Chair of the festival steering group, Jane Rutter, said it will be a “useful and interesting” teaching aid for the school.

“It is also a delightful and valuable piece of artwork in its own right, and the festival is proud to have supported the ladies who worked so hard to produce it by contributing the cost of the frame,” she said.

Two mothers, Claire Welland and Joan Jarrett, have started an after-school needlework club and their first challenge is to create a heading for the embroidery, entitled Worthys Festival Embroidery 2011-2015.

Now the people behind the embroidery are creating a quilt which will be raffled off at this year’s festival for a local charity, which has not yet been decided.