Coming up in May…
✨Network Meet Up
Friday 8 May
10am-12.30pm
Edventure, Park Hill Drive
This month we will be bringing our new rope machine to the meeting to have a play with it and test it out. Please bring along any lightweight long lengths on fabric you have to make some rope.
Everyone welcome
✨Social stitching
Makers and craft meet up
Tuesday 19 May
6.30-9.30pm
Palmer Street Bottle Shop
Everyone is welcome to join these drop ins. Come along to sit together, chat, have a drink and bring along a project you are working on. Some mending, knitting, crochet, sewing or any other project.
The coat of hopes came for a visit last Friday to our monthly meeting.
“The Coat of Hopes is a patchwork coat on an ongoing walking pilgrimage through the UK towards the end of the climate and ecological emergency.
It has been made by and worn and walked by many hundreds of people on a journey on foot of over 2000 miles so far. It carries people’s hopes for the places they live, sewn into the blanket patches of which it is made. All who encounter it are invited to wear it and take a moment to be conscious of themselves at this time”
The coat was stitch, mended and tried on by many who are now coat pilgrims!
The coat will be in Frome until Friday 4th May at Christ Church.
Visit coat of hope website for more details.
Beautiful goings on here @edventurefrome , with @everyoneneedspockets bringing the @coatofhopes to Frome. 🪡🧵
With craftsmanship and custodianship colliding in a pilgrimage to bring an end to the climate and ecological emergency we are facing. 💚
#coatofhopes #everyoneneedspockets #climate_change #hopefilledmoments
Coming up in April…
✨Social stitching
Makers and craft meet up
Tuesday 21 April
6.30-9.30pm
Palmer Street Bottle Shop
Everyone is welcome to join these drop ins. Come along to sit together, chat, have a drink and bring along a project you are working on. Some mending, knitting, crochet, sewing or any other project.
✨Network Meet Up
Friday 24 April
10am-12.30pm
Edventure, Park Hill Drive
* Please note the change of normal date. We have moved this months meeting back because of the Easter holidays and so we can bring the Coat of Hopes to our meeting
Come to our meeting and have an encounter with the coat as well as sew it.
Embodying the hopes of people across the country who have embellished and added small squares of blanket to express their hopes, remembrances and grief for their landscape in climate crisis. The coat will arrive in Frome on 17th April and leave on 11th May and will be hosted in Christchurch and St Mary’s, Innox. If anyone would like it to visit anywhere else in Frome get in contact with Wren. You are invited to try on the coat to feel the weight of its hopes and there is an accompanying song, it was created by Barbara Keal.
Bring along sewing things if you wish to add and mend the coat.
Everyone welcome
✨Mend In Public Day
Stitch It Don’t Ditch It
Saturday 25 April
11am- 12pm
Westway Shopping Centre
Come along and join us in the for an hour of collective action for Fashion Revolution Mend In Public Day. We will be meeting by the bridge in the Westway shopping centre. Get in contact with us if you would like to join us on the day and we can send you more details.
We will be at the pop up shop at the bottom of Cheap St Frome tomorrow, Saturday afternoon 2-4 hope you can come and join in the conversations and celebrate all the Green and Healthy projects done over the past five years and discuss their futures. We had a question on Wednesday: does the cotton cardigan provide nutrients to the cress? Come and find out the answer and add your own thoughts and suggestions. #flax #hemp #root #textiles @k.e.l.l.y.h.a.r.r.i.s@katekearapelen@lucy.gundry@emilycampbell_studio@greenhealthyfrome@everyoneneedspockets
Come and see all that has happened over the past few years with community grant funded projects. This video highlights our Sewing the Seeds project which invited individuals and community groups to gain an understanding of fibres that were both edible and produced sustainable cloth. Linen and nettle were explored and next we are hoping to widen our project to look at other fibres from soil and returned to the soil. The two shops at the bottom of Cheap Street in Frome are open each day this week so pop in and take a look. Big thank you to all and @katekearapelen . #community #textiles #flax #nettle
Sorting and preparing for a celebration of Green & Healthy Frome which starts tomorrow
DEMO LAB: Saturday 28th 2 - 4pm with Lucy, Carolyn and Emily from SEWING THE SEEDS
Meet the STS project team and explore some of their fascinating work in progress: from sprouting textile, to mould growing textiles and a wheelbarrow to dig into - as well as drop spindles to try and cordage samples to investigate. Don’t forget to pick up your copy of the free ‘zine and toolkit and explore the display of material and artefacts inside the pop-up Studio.
#flax #Nettle #soil #explore #textiles
POP UP | POP IN two shops at the bottom of Cheap Street Frome
