by Vanessa Rolf | Nov 15, 2017 | Workshops
The second Making Common Ground session welcomed a few new faces to the group. We continued stitching, introducing some new textiles reference points. One person had dug out a lovely book of stitch techniques to bring along. The conversation again was really...
by Alice Kettle | Nov 7, 2017 | Workshops
Workshop sewing trees with machine embroidery....
by Vanessa Rolf | Nov 6, 2017 | Workshops
On Friday mornings in November I am inviting people to join me to stitch a giant patchwork map as part of the Stitching Stories programme of events. We had our first session last Friday and the stitching was beautiful, but it was the richness of the conversation that...
by Vanessa Rolf | Oct 24, 2017 | Workshops
During the half term holiday we hosted a map making workshop for children to explore the ideas within the Stitching Stories exhibition of passage, journey, home and displacement. We provided them with a pre-folded blank map to fill using stamps, stickers, collage,...