Patchwork of Selfies - submit yours and be part of our live patchwork!

This year at People's Day, we are unveiling the People's Patchwork. To accompany it we will also be displaying a "Patchwork of Selfies". In the run up to the day, you can submit your selfie taken in your favourite place in Lewisham to our blog, and on 12th July you will be able to submit your selfie at People's Day. If you don’t want to submit your face, we would also like peoples’ messages or thoughts about Lewisham. You could even write it on your hand!

You can submit your selfie by using the hashtag #ppselfie on Instagram or Twitter, or by submitting directly onto the blog: http://ppselfie.tumblr.com/submit

Get posting!

Vote on the final design - how do you want the People's Patchwork to look?

Thank you to everyone who has sent in a patch for the People's Patchwork. We are now ready to put it together for display on People's Day at Mountsfield Park on Saturday 12th July, but there are many designs that we could use to create the finished patchwork and we would like you to choose the design. We would like you to vote on the final design and a survey is open from now until 1st July for you to place your vote. This will give us some time to create the final design for you to see on People's Day.

We want you to vote on 2 things - the layout of the patches and the background colour.

The options for the layout are -

Layout 1 - A random layout

Layout 2 - Similar colours grouped in vertical stripes

Layout 3 - All patches that mention Lewisham or feature the borough crest together in the middle  

Layout 4 - All patches with a white background together in the centre with coloured patches around the edge  

Layout 5 - All patches that have words as part of the design in the centre 

The colour choices are - 

1. Red
2. Yellow
3. Blue
4. Green
5. Purple
6. Brown
7. Black
8. White
9. Cream
10. Olive

Layouts

 Green background - random layout of patches

 Red background - patches with words in centre

 Blue background - colours in vertical stripes

Blue background - white patches in the centre

Some of the layouts we've been trying at our sessions in libraries. Why not join us next week at New Cross or Sydenham to see the patches and try some alternatives for yourself?

St Dunstan's Church

St Dunstan's Church was built in the early 1920s, when the Bellingham estate was being built.
On the 21st November 1925, the Bishop of Southwark opened the Church with a Dedicating Service.

The organ came from the Chapel Royal at St James'. This organ was built in 1837, but in 1891 six of the stops were removed and replaced by six stops from a much older organ, built for the Chapel Royal in 1699. In 1925 the organ came to St Dunstan's from St James's when they replaced it with a new one.

The font also has a history. It was dug up by workmen when excavating the foundations for the houses on this then new estate. No one is sure of its real age but it is very old.

The organ and the font are very old, but are still in use today.

Help design the People's Patchwork

The People's Patchwork is almost complete and we are holding layout sessions to decide on the final design. Come and join us to help layout our patches for the Peoples Patchwork.

You can help us to design our quilt over tea and biscuits at the following sessions -
Wednesday 28th May 2-4pm at Deptford Lounge
Friday 30th May 2-4pm at Downham Library
Tuesday 3rd June - 2-4pm at New Cross Learning
Saturday 7th June - 10-12am at Sydenham Community Library

You can see the patches at http://www.pinterest.com/lewishamlibs/lewisham-peoples-patchwork/

Craft Collective

This patch was created by Pinky from the Telegraph Hill Craft Collective. They've also been making their own beautiful patchwork celebrating how people feel when involved in creative activity.

New Cross Learning

This patch was created by Gill Hart - one of the volunteers who runs New Cross Learning.