Another new Project

Just as the Treasure Trove Project is drawing to its conclusion, we have been invited to collaborate on another community project. Left Coast are inviting contributors for the food and memory event at the Winter Gardens in October.
We have been invited to work with Harriett Riddell on creating a memory tablecloth for the event.
Harriett is a performance textile artist and specialises in machine stitched portraits of people done whilst she is out and about.  Her work is stunning and you can see more here:
http://institchyou.co.uk/

We have had a couple of meetings now and Harriett produced a great portrait of Seonaid:

The work is intended to reflect food memories of our older residents and these will be worked into vintage linens. Harriett has been busy visiting care homes and interviewing residents whilst stitching portraits.

On Saturday we immersed ourselves in vintage linens and began to formulate our ideas

Many thanks to Sheena who seems to have a bottomless supply of beautiful tablecloths in her stash!

If you would like to keep updated on this project we have set up a new Facebook Group as a focus for our ideas and progress:

www.facebook.com/groups/1450807055225300