Ancient Landscapes splashing about the summer!
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| nesting coral from Lady Manners |
We've had workshops all over the place this month, so here is a quick collection of excitements...
We have visited
Lady Manners School - working with the Year 12 textile
students
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| Lady Manners, large drawing |
National Trust at Ilam Park for a Father's Day event
Buxton Soroptomists where we gave an after-dinner talk complete
with fossils, model trilobites and horseshoe crabs, and crochet seaweeds
creeping across the tabletops
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| Lady Manners Horseshoe Crab |
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| kelp! |
Peakabout Arts with
High Peak Community Arts: with some beautifully deocrated felted kelps
unfolding stickily across the workshop
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| Silverdale Knitting Group in action |
Silverdale Knitting Group - with comment below from our artist, Sarah Males, who led the event and then a further message from the Silverdale library team who host the knitting group (hope they don't mind me quoting their lovely comments!)
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| needle-felting ancient fish |
"A lovely afternoon at Silverdale Library
with the knitting group. We set off travelling back through time, as far back
as 360m years ago, thinking about life in shallow seas. Images of corals, sea
lilies and brachiopods living in our landscapes, long, long ago and far, far
away. Today we have fossils, clear and tangible memories of life at that time.
And our challenge? To help the reef grow, creating with crochet, fossilising
with felt and knitting new creatures to populate this ancient landscape.
Hooks and needles, stitching and
stabbing (needle felt!) and a busy room all combined to produce twisting coral
shapes and felted fish, jellies and stars. Some Silverdale folks plan to visit
Buxton" Sarah
"I just wanted to extend my thanks on
behalf of the ladies who attended the session yesterday .We all had a brilliant
time! Thank you again for arranging it for us. A couple of the ladies mentioned
on the way out that they are going to drive up to Buxton for the open day! All
in all I think it was very successful and I wish that Sarah could come to us
every Friday!!" Silverdale
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