The Festival of Stitch is just around the corner, and the Pink Button Trail is being set up to guide you to all the displays and exhibitions!
There will be a tremendous range of groups involved in transforming the streets of Swansea with Textile Street Art, from the ladies of Stitching Botanicals Llanarthne to Swansea Bay Regional Equality Council, to an art group based in Cefn Coed hospital. We have a wide range of age groups too from the schoolchildren who have designed bollard covers that will be outside the Dylan Thomas Centre and outside the Museum, to the ladies of the Llys Elba Sheltered Housing and students from Gower College.
Most of the textile groups will be putting on displays with Fish and Bunting on the Helwick and around the Marina from Contexart, Swansea Quilters will have Elmer the Patchwork elephant in the outside area of the Waterfront Museum, the Baywood Quilters have beautiful panels about Alice in Wonderland here too and the Penclawdd Patchers are decorating the Tramshed.
Itchyfingers Textiles will have the lawn outside the Taliesin Gallery in Swansea University covered with sweets and lollipops from Willy Wonka’s factory. Swansea Embroiderer’s Guild will have the Hungry Caterpillar eating through the vegetation in front of the Civic Centre and a group from Stitches Coven are decorating the garden in the Grand Theatre.
Swansea will have Pink Button trails that will link all these displays and exhibition venues together and they have started going up around Swansea – they will be ready to guide people around the Festival from 5th August!
Check out the event for more information on everything that’s happening!
www.swanseafestivalofstitch.co.uk