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Loving the Xmas card that my mum made at the day centre. #xmas #itsnicetomake #dementia #alzheimers #dementiacare #livingwell #creativity #selfexpression #windrushgeneration https://www.instagram.com/p/BrxmbUcnsXA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zqorhhis6tl9

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Alanna Shaikh: How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's.

"What matters is that my hands know how to do it. Because the more things that are familiar, the more things my hands know how to do, the more things that I can be happy and busy doing when my brain's not running the show anymore."

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Running a technical session on french knitting with wire at the CASS School of Design, with  BA degree Jewellery & Silversmithing students in Central House. We started off with making a basic version of a french knitting spool; using a wooden block with a 16mm drilled hole and the pegs were made from dental stainless steel.  A blunt sewing needle ( one normally used for using wool) & 26 gauge wire was used to knit. It’s one of those techniques that you have to preserve with at the beginning, because it’s starts off looking very messy, and it’s feels like  battle of wills with the wire. But slowly and surely there are rewarding results to be had.

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Great to see the results of our collaboration with the CASS on a ‘making kit/gift’ for Vivienne Westwood VIPs during Milan Design Week.

Thanks to Jude Dennis for the photo.

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Flowers

How amazing >750 flowers & more 2 come. @ToynbeeHall with @fionahackney @Craftivists @voluntaryarts @Arts_for_Health pic.twitter.com/HgQ8v4MHYt

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Last week I went along to the launch of the #wellmaking Craftivists Garden.  

Looking forward to being part of this great project and to being one of the facilitators.