Kettfest at The Green Patch

The Green Patch was resplendent with some of the

many things we have been creating in time for Kettfest.

Our marvellous Mum and right hand woman

Michelle with her fabulous afternoon tea 

inspired crochet creations!

Our mosaics all out catching the light

See how they were created here

Our fruit and flower prints on display

and our fish flags

adding colour and movement

everyone was so pleased, proud and delighted

with all the beauty our project

has created and shared

Sue, Nigel and cake!

Merle and her husband

and the community gathering in the afternoon sun

Carole's temporary installation 

Stone Eggs, Dead Tree

See more of the day here

Fish Flags for Kettfest

The Green Patch are taking part in Kettfest 

so Carole decided that the it would be a wonderful 

opportunity for The View From Here Groups

to show off their creative skills

so participants at Grange Place and The green Patch

got busy decorating fish flags

we had many different patterns

and they look wonderful catching the breeze

See more here

The Green Patch Open Day

The Green Patch Open day was a wonderful opportunity to meet friends, View From Here participants, volunteers and members of the community. We decided that we would also link with another project and another growing space by making clay birds for the British Ceramics Biennial  Spode Rose Garden in Stoke-on-Trent. We felt this was a great way of increasing skills, creativity and boosting self-confidence for the group to have work in another public community growing space as well as on The Green Patch. It was also important to our resident artist Carole who has family in Stoke and is crazy about ceramics!

Grange Place participant and our right 

hand woman Michelle Brightwell

had her wonderful crochet / applique bunting 

on display above the plant sale trailer 

Using a simple paper template

and stamps, buttons etc designs were created

on the birds. This activity seemed even move fitting

as there was a wonderful display of owls

See more owls and images from the day here

There were reptiles and insects

Delicious cakes and teas

See more clay birds here

and just look at the fabulous bunting we made!

It was a wonderful day!

More Mosiacs Underway

More mosaics for The Green Patch 

underway in 

and outside The Mollie

and at Grange Place

these were made by our Tuesday group

and are abstract landscapes of

the view from of the landscape as seen from The Green Patch