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As 2020 was such a different year for all of us, we thought it would be of interest to create a lockdown reminiscence book crafted by us all of lockdown experiences we have had over the past year. 

Our inspiration was taken from some fabric books created by an aunt of Suzanne’s which reminded me of the quilt made as a gift to Stiiv when he retired and was a fantastic piece of work.   Some of you also were part of making the bunting for Lesley Wood.  Again the joy of the finished item came from the collaboration of a group.  Please will you join us and create a page for a St John’s book.

Suzanne and Barbara have worked out a sort of plan as a guide:

• the size of each finished work, no greater than  25 x 28cm (this will leave a margin on the backing fabric for embellishment)
• page material/backing will be calico as we used for the Stations of the Cross project.
• You could applique on to the backing or use a lighter fabric and we would be happy to apply your finished work onto the calico
• you could be paint, write or draw directly onto the calico or any chosen fabric. We have sourced a paper/fabric that can have an image or text printed onto it, we are purchasing some of this to share but is available on line (Photo fabric).

A few suggestions of medium are printing, drawing, painting, writing, embroidery, sticking, decoupage, photography, and perhaps there are ideas we can learn from you!

We have a lot of small items of trims and ribbons to embellish or edge a page again ready to share.

We will cut the pages to size ready for use. The only restriction will be the finished size!

Please join in and help create a book to share that can be left in Church for everyone to experience.

We are attaching some pages from the book that inspired us. If you look carefully you can see what simple stitches and fabrics have been used. 

Why not use the last few weeks of lockdown to start and returned to us by the end of May as we hope to have this compiled by the early summer. 

To download the order of service please follow this link: https://testing.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Ash-Wednesday-Service-for-website-link.pdf

The creativity group would like to invite you to join them in making flowers to decorate the outside of church for lent. You don’t have to be an expert, just willing to have a go. They will be meeting on Zoom each Monday evening at 8pm (apart from the first Monday 22nd which will be at 7.30). They will meet for half a hour to share what they have done, exchange ideas and pray together.

If you would like to join, please reply below.

Praying for Croydon During Lent

Here is the link to the Prayer Booklet: https://testing.stjohnsshirley.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CCF-Transform-Croydon-prayer-booklet-2021-.pdf