The Stitch Roadshow at the Meena Bazaar

The Stitch Roadshow at the Meena Bazaar, a day for women only at the Baitful Futuh Mosque, Morden, south London. The embroidery on display was created in Wandsworth over the past 12 months with groups of Muslim and non-Muslim women. 

Our new packs were on display (we're starting another course with them in July) ....

Visitors looking at embroidery...

The mosque...

Katrina Williams, who has helped with the project from the start ...

A visitor's henna-ed hands

And another visitor's pink handbag, chosen to match her long-sleeved pink t-shirt.

Plans for the Meena Bazaar

A meeting with Suraya Sadiq of the Amadiyya mosque, Morden, south London, to discuss plans for the future. Might we hold embroidery classes at the mosque? Suraya suggests that we go along to the Meena Bazaar (Ladies Only) at the mosque on Sunday 14th May. We will display embroidery created by women in the project so far - and see who is interested. Around 5,000 people are expected at the Bazaar. Some of the women in the Asian Women's Group (Wandsworth) attend the mosque. Suraya will ask them to embroider during the day.
I take the work they created for Stitch Wandsworth with me, as Suraya hasn't seen them before.

She finds a cushion of her own which reminds her of a piece worked by Savita of the Asian Women's Group....She explains how this is done with an 'aari' needle.
Savita's embroidery was inspired by a pattern on ecclesiastical robes in Liverpool Cathedral. Interesting how the floral motifs are so similar to the patterns on this cushion.