Group Meeting

Today we had a group meeting to refine our ideas before going to the Hope Centre tomorrow. I feel like it's very important for us to turn up with as much clarity about how our ideas will be realised in order to reflect this being a professional live brief.

We again discussed the donation boxes and agreed it would be beneficial to run some sort of workshop to encourage donations. We also discussed unfinished samples and fabrics we have which we love but are unable to use and how we could use these to get going with the production of items while waiting for donations to come in.

I raised to the group that I was still a little nervous about not getting enough donations to really give the items a story. I suggested that we could perhaps run workshops which encouraged a wider community to engage in textiles crafts. As myself and Rhi specialise in embroidery and Claire in weave we disscussed how we could run embroidery workshops (Claire also has some knowledge of the specialism) which would allow participants to create samples which could be formed into items for the packs using stitch or weave. We would include a label with each item explaining who had contributed which would translate the amount of time and care invested in the objects. This could be another option for a workshop with the Live at Home group should they be interested in taking part in the project.

I feel much better about going to Bradford to present our ideas tomorrow. By turning up with two options we can get feedback from the clients and see which they feel would work best in terms of having a positive impact. Tomorrow we will also inquire about the potential of working with the Live at Home group and whether they believe our plan to run a workshop is something which they will want to engage in. I'm very excited for our meeting tomorrow now we have two clear ideas to present to the clients!