Week 1
We are off to a cracking start with the next phase in the Sudbury Silk story working with four local primary schools. They are all really...
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JOURNAL
Catch up on the weekly progress of Creative Young Weavers by following the diary posts of the project coordinator Carole Creasey and the workshop facilitator, Frin Arnold as they work with primary schools and the local community to prepare an exhibition of participants work for display in Sudbury.
Week 2
Frin has her first session with the lovely students at Sixth Form College Colchester who pitch in to help her prepare the waste, silk...
Week 3
We went back to the drawing board to review the project model and identified a choice of face to face workshop sessions within Covid...
Week 4
Frin has had a busy week this week preparing all the new resources for the school activity. A super sunny day and she calls in at Apogee...
Week 5
It’s a proper team effort this week, packing, packing, getting the craft bags ready for delivery to St Gregory’s School for their...
Week 6
Back to school this week. We are very grateful to Cavendish School for their commitment to working with us to enable their pupils to...
Week 7
We are really on a roll now, Frin is back in Cavendish Primary this week to catch up on progress with their weaving panels. She got off...
Week 8
Really lovely feedback from St Gregory CEVC Primary School this week who had their pupils individual craft bags delivered to the school...
Week 9
After remodelling the project to make it Covid safe to continue working with the schools, our next challenge was how to display the work....
Week 10
A busy week collecting in the final batch of panels from Sudbury Library, Sudbury QH WI, Tourist Information staff and the Town Council...
Week 11
After a very long day yesterday, threading the 80 plus woven panels together and arranging all the signage, it is an early start in...
Week 12
We are really glad we were able to secure the shop window for the exhibition, at least now the participants can still see their panels on...
Week 13
Now that everything is up and on display it really is a chance to properly look and reflect on what has taken place. Frin and I are both...
Week 14
From tiny acorns….. this week we celebrated reaching 100 followers on our social media account, we are really grateful to our community...
Week 15
With only 4 weeks left to run on the exhibition at 2 Market Hill, Sudbury we begin the process of collating all the photographs of each...
Week 16
We love working with BRIX and are eternally grateful for their patient and calm response to our many, tiny, detailed requests… the...
Week 17
Lots of paperwork this week, pulling together all the photographs and quotes from the participants in the project to include in our final...
Week 18
And finally, the paperwork is complete, the photographs all put in order and the report has been sent off. For people out and about in...
And finally...
And finally, so long, farewell for now…… As we put our feet up for a well-earned cup of tea and slice of cake, we wanted to take this...