National Stitch Day at the Black Country Living Museum – Saturday, 22nd June 2019
What
a great and successful day! After much preparation including cutting
out felt for chain links and felt with sari-silk for bookmarks, a group
of us met at the Black Country Museum to spread the word of our interest
in stitch. The day coincided with the ‘Windrush Event’ also being held
near the entrance to the Museum. There were 200-250 people coming from
London, Nottingham, Leicester and our local area. We not only had
children and adults visiting the Museum itself, but also from this
event. They embroidered their names on the links, which are being kept
at the Museum to be used in future events supporting the opening of the
new 1940 -1960s village in four years time, and/or they threaded
sari-silk through the felt bookmarks and embellished them with stitch
which they could take home with them.
We
were entertained with our own ‘walk-by’ fashion show of people dressed
in costume of the day as they entered the main hall. What lovely
clothes they wore. We were offered cake from a Caribbean cake shop and
listened to a steel band. Many people stopped by to chat and see what
we were doing. We spread the ‘word’.
Thank you all who attended on the day, and also to those who helped in the cutting out of felt at the Members’ Workshop.
Karina and Carole
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