Early in January, we were delighted to have the lovely folks from Threads, a local sewing group, and friends from Spoonflower here in the Greenhouse, our classroom and community space here at our Durham HQ, to participate in a silk scarf sew-in for the Wrap Your Head Around It project. Wrap Your Head Around It is a community action project led by artist Peg Gignoux that integrates writing about the heroic journey of fighting cancer into wearable textiles.
The goal of this effort is to create 200 handmade scarves featuring the words of patients who have participated in a series of writing workshops to describe their experiences with cancer. The project has been fully funded via Kickstarter, writing workshops are complete, and Peg and her team of local textile artists, the Threads group, used the Greenhouse to start stitching the first batch of scarves.
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