All photos by Glen Stoker
On Friday 13th April I held a 'make your own guerrilla knitted flower' workshop at Airspace Gallery, Stoke-onTrent as part of my Red Nile commission. The idea was to create a secondary installation to go with my giant intervention that people could engage with the making of.
People could knit, crochet or make a pompom flower. Most people made a crochet or pompom flower.
It was a lovely cosy day of making and chatting. About 20 people came and went over the day. Some stayed all day some just for half an hour or so but everyone made a flower of some kind for the mini intervention in the park the next day. One girl made 7 crocheted flowers!
As well as making lots of gorgeous woolly flowers the workshop gave us the chance to talk to people about the National Garden Festival Park, the project, my commission and to hand out maps for the next day and invite people back for the event in the park. People seemed to engage well with the idea of the event as they now had played a part in the making of it.
