Today we went back to the Great Horton Village Hall where we first met Julie Maude and the Live at Home group. Julie had said to expect about 40 people but due to medical reasons and the bad weather (unfortunately pollution from the Sahara has made its way to the North and people with health issues such as lung conditions or the elderly are being advised to stay indoors - of all the days!!!!) there was only about 15. It was much more difficult to engage the group today as there was a table set out for them to have their lunch and one for us to do the workshop separately. Everyone seemed to beeline to the lunch table and were a little reluctant to move! We did approach everyone, explain the project and ask if they fancied taking part and ended up with about 5 people coming to work on some samples with us. It was lovely talking to them again and engaging with them as we all stitched away but it was slightly disheartening that more of them weren't willing to be involved.
There were a few people who arrive late and we tried to tempt them with the envelopes to take home but were unsuccessful. The whole 'homework' idea really hasn't been as successful as we'd hoped! It seems that a lot of them enjoy knitting so perhaps the project could be adapted to utilise knitted samples should Inn Churches want to continue our work in order to encourage more involvement from this group.
Although we were a little dissapointed with the lack of involvement from this session we were aware that Thursdays were going to be a more challenging day due to the higher volume of men and the fact that the Wednesday group were the real 'crafters'. We're hoping that next Wednesdays session will be the best of the three. Fingers crossed by then we'll have generated enough samples through the workshops and envelopes which have been given out to friends and family to create a decent amount of items to give to Inn Churches!
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