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Link to Community Event at Elizabeth Gaskell's House

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I wanted the final workshop to follow on from the previous two I had done but this time making nature more of a focus. As the breathing spaces project shows, moments of calm can be found everywhere you don't have to be totally immersed in nature to achieve it. Having said that I think this time of year is fantastic for tuning in to and noticing nature, the autumnal changes are so dramatic and colourful, from tree lined city streets to garden's and parks. We began with a 'choc

We finished our final session with Making Marks with Threads, it has been wonderful to see the diversity of people’s approaches to using thread, with some wanting to ‘follow the rules’ and others ‘making new stitches’. A member of the group said he felt ‘embroidery is like meditation’; once everyone had built enough confidence in sewing the room did feel calm and content with many silences as people concentrated. It has been a pleasure to run 4 sessions using stitch and the H