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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2h

This has really caught people's imaginations - way more than I was expecting. Very lovely, but a tiny bit overwhelming and a tad surreal, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Houghton-le-Spring crafters create Houghton Feast fabric map

Houghton Feast's origins stetch as far back as the 12th Century.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Steve. I almost tagged you in the post, because I figured you'd have an interesting take on it.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

It's not quite organised enough to be called a journal - but I do have a whole heap of notes to myself that I've written along the way, as things have seemed important or interesting, or just worth keeping track of

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

A really excellent set of questions, thank you so much. That will send me off in some really helpful directions.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

The map sewing project is in it's final week. There's been a press release, and 2 photographers and a video interview which was all a bit overwhelming!

Here I am, with my lovely colleague and my excellent craft group too: www.facebook.com/share/r/178Z...

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

(Confession: I haven't watched the video! I'm not a great fan of seeing myself on camera. But one of my kids watched it and said it was ok!)

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone has any suggestions for "how to review a project" and to capture what I've learnt, I'd love to hear them.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

It's been my biggest project so far. 139 people have added memories, which has been way, way more than I imagined possible. (I'd have been delighted with 50).
I'm wanting to do a review of it in some way - what have I learnt, what could I have done differently, what might come next?

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 2d

The map sewing project is in it's final week. There's been a press release, and 2 photographers and a video interview which was all a bit overwhelming!

Here I am, with my lovely colleague and my excellent craft group too: www.facebook.com/share/r/178Z...

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www.facebook.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, that's beautifully done 😁

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 8d

What an amazing list of skills. I want to try all of them!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 9d

I held on for as long as I could, but I had to nudge her off in the end!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 10d

How can I disturb her??

A close up of a little sleepy catty face

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 10d

You're just going to have to move then. No way anyone can withstand that disapproval 😁

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 10d

That age old dilemma: I really need a wee, but there's a cat on my lap and she is comfy and soft.

Legs, stretched out on a sofa, with a blanket over them. A tabby and white cat is fast asleep on the lap with one leg stretched out, holding on.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 10d

Tim complains about the manic cackling sounds behind him, when he rides a tandem. Must be a mechanical glitch, I guess?

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, that's proper good to see

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11d

Ah yes, the infamous "starter marriage"!

#TheArchers

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11d

The priest and preacher in me overlaps a lot, internally, with the community textile artist side of me. Each influences the other. But it's not quite such an overlap as this!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11d

Happily, one of the set readings for St Michael and All Angels is Jacob and his dream of a ladder reaching up to heaven, and as it happens, that was very much in my head as I was planning out the project, so at least I've got a solid starting point in the readings.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 11d

I'm preaching at our Patronal Festival tomorrow morning. The invitation was "Something about what you've learnt from sewing the map with people?". That's rather different from my normal approach of "Everything starts with the Bible passages set for the day" but an interesting challenge
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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 12d

I know! It's not the first time I've done it, but I've got a lot better at checking my pockets before I leave the building. I guess today, I was just really, really keen to go home!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 12d

A fractious day at the drop in. Everyone seemed grumpy and argumentative. I was glad to be home and unwinding, then a phone call from a colleague saying, "Could you just check your pockets for me, Claire, and see if the main door keys are in there??"

Bother!

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 12d

I love that it specifies "not staying" in the caption of the photo!

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