Meet 10.30am at Poole’s Cavern car park. Walk sets off 10.50am
Taking the footpath up through Grinlow Woods, cross the fields to Solomon’s Temple. Take a cheesey group photo. Return.
Meet 10.30am at Poole’s Cavern car park. Walk sets off 10.50am
Taking the footpath up through Grinlow Woods, cross the fields to Solomon’s Temple. Take a cheesey group photo. Return.
Meet 10.30am at Fairfield Top Shops, Victoria Park Road. Walk sets off 10.50am
Walk through the estate to the industrial estate (beautiful!), passed the allotments and over the stil and turn left past the rocks. Climb up and cross the fields to Redgap Lane, turn left through Lowfoot Farm, round the base of Fairfield Low and back to the allotments.
Meet 2pm at Bankswood Park car park, off Park Road, Hadfield. Walk sets off 2.20pm
Taking the footpath towards Mouselow quarry and curve round into the woods. Follow the route round Mouselow Castle Motte, taking in the panoramic views of Glossop!
Meet 2pm at Longdendale Trail car park, off Platt Street, Hadfield. Walk sets off 2.20pm
Taking the Longdendale Trail north, turning off to cross the field towards Bottoms Reservoir. Following the edge of the reservoir until we reach the old quarry and climb back up to Padfield and walk back to the trail.
Meet 2pm at Gamesley Londis. Walk sets off 2.20pm
Taking the Pennine Way along the edge of Glossop Brook and turning off to climb up to Melandra Castle from the rear.
High Peak Community Arts, Project eARTh at home:
This project is split into four weeks, two weeks creating a sampler to learn some different weaving techniques and two weeks to make your own design, using Blue John as a colour theme. (The two-week Easter break is ‘extra’ to this, so in reality you have more time). The aim is for the weaving to look like the cross-section of a Blue John mine.
We are weaving on cards for this project, as they are easier to post than looms! The vertical threads on a loom are called the warp and the horizontal threads are called the weft. The warp is wrapped around the cards and secured at the back with two pieces of tape.
We are making a sampler to practise techniques, then designing and making a final piece inspired by Blue John. Try to use roughly half of your wool yarn for each project. You can always use more of a colour in your sampler if you are not planning to use very much of it in your final piece (e.g. maybe you will use less yellow in your final piece, so can use more of it in the sampler.) Feel free to use some of your own yarn for your practise sampler. If you do not have any at home, it is available cheaply online or from Aldi. Please be sure to only use the yarns supplied in your High Peak Community Arts kit for the final woven Blue John piece, as everyone’s work must be made from the same wool and colour palette.
For the sampler, we are trying two new techniques each week, to be interspersed with plain weave, so you can practice your plain weave each week, too.
Please fill in the weekly evaluation forms as you go – it helps us with our monitoring and our planning – and do give us a call if you need any help.
Week by week instructions can be viewed on the pdf sheet here – Blue John weaving instructions
Welcome to Week Five of Project eARTh’s Mexican Embroidery Project, an exciting and colourful project to cheer us up during winter and lockdown, inspired by embroidery from the Otomi region of Mexico, with Amanda Whewell – artist.
Feel free to join in, by following the PDF Activity Sheet and the short ‘how to’ film, to be found here:
Click here for the activity sheet pdf.
If you are not in Project eARTh but would like your embroidery to form part of our collective finished artwork, please message us or email alison@highpeakarts.org for us to send you some calico, hoops, needles and threads. The final work will be put together for artwork for The Bureau in Glossop. Or of course, use your own materials for embroidery to keep yourself.
For our project, we will leave everyone all Spring and Summer to embroider, and collect the pieces in the Autumn. If you would like to embroider someone else’s design, please get in touchwith alison@highpeakarts.org, too.
Welcome to Week Four of Project eARTh’s Mexican Embroidery Project, an exciting and colourful project to cheer us up during winter and lockdown, inspired by embroidery from the Otomi region of Mexico, with Amanda Whewell – artist.
Feel free to join in, by following the PDF Activity Sheet and the short ‘how to’ film, to be found here:
Click here for the activity sheet pdf.
The Activity sheet and film show how to recreate the herringbone stitch pattern with felt tips to colour in your designs.
Week 5 will follow on March 15th.
Then those people who love stitching, will embroider their designs onto 30 x 30cm calico. And others will post their designs outlined on calico, back to us, and we will then post them out to the members who would like to embroider more. We are going to leave plenty of time for stitching – people can relax and do that over Spring and Summer alongside other new projects. The final work will be put together for artwork for The Bureau in Glossop.
Get in touch with alison@highpeakarts.org if you would like to embroider your own or someone else’s design, so we can send you calico, hoop, needles and thread.
Welcome to Week Three of Project eARTh’s Mexican Embroidery Project, an exciting and colourful project to cheer us up during winter and lockdown, inspired by embroidery from the Otomi region of Mexico, with Amanda Whewell – artist.
Feel free to join in, by following the PDF Activity Sheet and the short ‘how to’ film, to be found here:
Click here for the activity sheet pdf.
The activity sheet and film show how to trace your design onto a piece of fabric. If you would like to embroider for our project, please message us or email alison@highpeakarts.org with your postal address to send you the calico, hoop, needle and threads to do so – or if you like, you can send your design to us, for someone else to embroider – we will need to send you a piece of calico onto which you can trace your outline design. Or of course, you can go ahead with your own work to keep.
Week 4 will follow on March 8th.