Stoke Goldington Millennium Wall Hanging
Development
Planning
After about three months working on the application form, trying to make sure we had thought of everything needed in the way of materials including needles, graph paper, tracing paper, wools, canvas, frames and so on, as well as completing the other 13 or so other pages, we finally submitted the application in June 2000 and then waited. In September 2000, we received the grant from Community Awards for All for £3,296.00 to cover the cost of materials.
Serious planning began.
| Phase 1 Development |
| Getting people involved |
| Workshops |
| Kits |
| Phase 2 Main Canvas |
| Phase 3 The Borders |
| Phase 4 Hanging |
This site is hosted by MK Heritage
Association
Recorded in the database of the
National Needlework Archive
To have a cohesion, colour balance and unity to the hanging, we realised that an overall design had to be created which would then be strictly adhered to.
The initial design and colour palette is what we based our grant application on.
When we got our grant this design was then scaled-up to the finished size, where all areas of the hanging were defined (the cartoon).
The colour palette already fixed enabled us to start buying in the yarns we needed to get started.
During the autumn of 2000, we took photos of the one or two houses and tried different methods of sewing them on the canvas.
Because some of the houses seem larger than they should, and some smaller we realised eventually that photos had to be scaled rather than transferred directly onto the canvas ... but we hope this occasional lack of scale lends enchantment to the view.
The project group had a workshop with a needlework tutor, Lesley Wilson, to experiment with stitches.
For the next stage, to get people in the village involved in the project, we held an Open Day in December 2000
