Suffolk Artlink, Stitching Time
The needles are out for an art and craft project offering people a chance to sit and stitch in one of Suffolk’s best known historic houses.
Stitching Time is a partnership project between Suffolk Artlink’s Culture Club and Colchester and Ipswich Museums. Free artist-led sessions are being held in the Wolsey Gallery at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, where members of the public are invited to come along and share traditional knitting, stitching and sewing skills.
The sessions are taking place once a month from now until January and are open to anybody who enjoys creative textiles or would like to try. As well as the opportunity to work with professional artists, the sessions provide a chance to chat over tea and cake.
Inspired by ideas from the past and by the Museums’ collections, the group will craft a new piece of artwork from old materials. Additional outreach sessions are also taking place with groups of mostly older people at other venues in Ipswich and Colchester. The aim is to have the project all sewn up in time to link to a forthcoming exhibition of needlecraft at Hollytrees Museum in Colchester next March.
The next Stitching Time open sessions will be held at Christchurch Mansion on Friday 12th December and Friday 23rd January, 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Culture Club works with delivery partners to provide creative activities for older people in Suffolk.
For more details please contact
Ruth Gillan, Colchester and Ipswich Museums: 01206 506936
[email protected]
or Gabby Cox, Suffolk Artlink: 01986 873955
[email protected].
