I was very pleased to be invited to Weston hospital in a facilitation role for wellbeing workshops with off-duty staff taking time to consider the environment they work in and how they might help shape it in the future. We used old uniforms, cyanatype liquid to create shadow images of hospital equipment and embroidery threads to explore different ways of working with textiles. Participants suggested, as many of the old uniforms were being recycled due to minor damage, that it would be a great to have a regular visible mending group to breathe new life back into them rather than sending them for rags while they were still useful. I think this would be a wonderful idea and provide something to smile at, as a patient, seeing the staff handiwork being worn on the wards.
