Threads and Chatter - Pompom Bag Charms

Inspite of the dark stormy afternoon we had a lovely turn out for out first Threads and Chatter session of the New year in our new venue, The Resource Centre in Grange Place. Artist Phiona Richards lead us through an intriguing method of creating small pompoms using wool and a fork!

We added beads and a keyring attachment 

to create stylish bag charms

See more from the session here

 Phiona was highly amused at the amount 

of tying off thread Abby had left her!

It was also great to catch up with Rick who shared photographs of his wonderful, award winning wildlife garden. He was full of hints and tips on what to plant and showed us the wide variety of moths that had been seen in his garden. We have invited ourselves round for a tour this year when the garden is in full bloom!

If you live in the Avondale / Grange ward do join us again 

Tuesday 19th January

The Resource Centre, 

9 Grange Place, Kettering. 

NN16 0NT

Carole will have the kettle on between 2.30 and 3.30 pm

Phiona will be running her inventive, creative 

session between 3.30 and 5.00pm

Sessions and refreshments are family friendly, fun and free!

World Book Night

We are always looking for ways to add elements to our projects and our Project Coordinator Carole Miles applied to become an World Book Night 2015 institutional volunteer and we gave out books in our project postcode area in the Avondale Grange Ward as part of our The View From Here project. We also gave books in other parts on other days to members of Back To Books.

We gave out

Assassin's Apprentice

Book Title: Spring Tide

All the books were wrapped in our specially created book 

wraps printed as part of our View From Here project 

and the books given out in out postcode area also 

contained a leaflet about the project. 

We had a fabulous week of book giving as you can 

see from all the smiling faces in our Flickr set here!

Rob Walker gave out books at KBA

and we gave out books at The Green Patch

and at the Resource Centre in Grange Square.

World Book Night is an annual celebration of reading and books that took place on 23 April. It sees passionate volunteers give out hundreds of thousands of books in their communities to share their love of reading with people who don’t read regularly or own books. World Book Night is run by The Reading Agency, a national charity that inspires people to become confident and enthusiastic readers to help give them an equal chance in life.

Back To Books - World Book Night 2015

We are always looking for ways to add elements to our projects and our Project Coordinator Carole Miles applied to become an World Book Night 2015 institutional volunteer which means we will be giving out books in our project postcode area in the Avondale Grange Ward as part of our The View From Here project.

"Dear Back To Books - We'd like to congratulate you again on being accepted as a World Book Night 2015 institutional volunteer and say how delighted we are to have you on board. We're also thrilled to finally be able to tell you which books you'll be getting, with apologies for the slight delay.

You will receive:

Book Title: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

Book Title: Spring Tide 

World Book Night is an annual celebration of reading and books that takes place on 23 April. It sees passionate volunteers give out hundreds of thousands of books in their communities to share their love of reading with people who don’t read regularly or own books. World Book Night is run by The Reading Agency, a national charity that inspires people to become confident and enthusiastic readers to help give them an equal chance in life."

We are very excited to be able to incorporate this lovely giveaway in our View From Here project!

Threads and Chatter - Buttons and Beads

Artist Phiona Richards was on the Green Patch 

Showing our group what delights 

Can be made 

With buttons and beads

Oh yes and a needle made from wire

And some bright green elastic!

Phiona and Carole will be visiting 

Kettering Buccleugh Academy

on Wednesday afternoon after school

so if you live in the area and would

like to be part of our Threads & Chatter

Sessions please join us at 4.00 pm

You can see more images from this session by following the link

https://www.flickr.com/photos/backtobooks/sets/72157648788102840/

A Tile Patch For the Green Patch

So the mosaic making has begun

and to get a bit of practice we have been

making very simple, geometric squares.

If you would like to make a tile patch

for the Green Patch then Carole will

be in or near The Mollie on Tues 18th or 

Thurs 20th between 1.00pm and 3.00pm

Let us know if you'll be joining us!

Here is lovely local resident Sue modelling our

View From Here information card.

If you would like to see the patches so far follow the link

https://www.flickr.com/photos/backtobooks/sets/72157646869598023/

Meeting and Making Part 1

It was a gorgeous sunny afternoon and the Green Patch were having a picnic with a bit of a Halloween theme!

Our artists, Carole Miles and Phiona Richards took the opportunity to do some meeting and making for our View From Here project.

There were paper linch bags and insect stamps

for people to make their own Halloween Goody Bag

Nigel proudly displays his bag

Matthew made a bag for each of his brothers before setting off home for some spine tingling fun!

Each bag also contained one of our lovely Make, Do, Mend cards inviting the community from

Margaret Rd, Cora Rd, Doris Rd, Edith Rd, Judith Rd, Dorothy Rd, Jean Rd, Stamford Rd, Gorse Rd

Lime Rd, Ivy Rd, Centre Parade, Heather Rd, Aster Rd, Almond Rd, Dahlia Rd, Weekly Glebe Rd to join in the project. There will be further opportunities for making, doing and mending, along with talking and exploring so if you'd like to join in, watch this Blog or contact us to arrange a cuppa and a chat!

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