Here are some of the quilt blocks containing family sayings
that we built into the ‘Remembered Hug’ project that ran at the National Centre
for Crafts and Design last weekend. It
was the closing weekend for the show ‘What have I got to do to make it okay?’
and the opening weekend for ‘Made in the Middle’ and very unusually I had work
in both shows.
The idea was to work with residents of Ashfield Lodge Care
Home to collect family sayings and catchphrases that we would then digitally
embroider out. This is a photo of Harry
and Margaret watching the Pfaff 4.5 in action stitching out Harry’s phrase “Hells
bells and buckets of blood”. As some
patients living with dementia find ‘fiddling with stuff’ calming we also
embellished the blocks with ribbons, buttons and buckles.
Members of the general public lent a hand adding to our
collection of catchphrases and stitching on buttons. Indeed one lady spent hours on my Grandmother’s
1938 hand powered Singer joining scraps into blocks and the piecing
blocks. We used that machine to
construct the first lap blanket with another two being finished off by the
lovely team at Ashfield
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