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Over the past few weeks, our upholstery team have

Over the past few weeks, our upholstery team have regrouped to begin the process of making the soft furnishings for our building.

We are now putting into practice the skills we have learnt with Katie, from @meticulous_restoration during stage one of the project, whilst also learning some new skills using power tools: jigsaws and sanders.

During our summer program we are creating imagery for our first PIP upholstery fabric design. @rebeccamariadavies describes this as our own PIP Liberty fabric. Our aim is to make a series of fabrics responding to our current themes: Nature, Street and People the first one will be nature and will include drawings made by our neighbours this summer of mosses and plants living in the neighbourhood. We are looking forward to welcoming @katrinawilde back to the street to help us screen print our fabric.

In the two sessions we have had so far we have cut out wooden circles for the stools we are making for the building and have stripped a little chair for one of the artist residency bedrooms. In a future session we will pad these out and then they will be upholstered in our own bespoke PIP Nature Fabric.

Thank you to Katie for teaching us these brilliant skills - in today’s session we chatted about how we love to take some thing that might be unloved and transform it into something beautiful and valued. (A bit like the Portland Inn Building really.)

As part of gardening club, our artist gardener in

As part of gardening club, our artist gardener in residence Deb Rogers @msdmeanar organised for a cordial making workshop, using some of the edible plants we are growing at The Pippin!

Deb Jackson helped us make some fabulous rhubarb cordial from our own pippin grown rhubarb and made some fruit slabs from the leftover fruit.

We sampled tasty foraged cordials made from plants that grow in and around the Pippin, like rosebay willow herb. We made a daisy cordial and infused yarrow flowers ready for another day.

Deb Jackson will be leading on two more workshops later in the year 🙂

#CordialWorkshop #Stoke

Happy Wednesday from everyone at The Portland Inn

Happy Wednesday from everyone at The Portland Inn Project CIC - here are the activities we've got on during the first two weeks of the summer holidays. Scroll to see more information about some of our sessions and for updates on our building!

We have partnered with the @hubbfoundation who have offered us a number of HAF (Holidays and Food) sessions across our summer programme. On Tuesday's and Thursdays only from the 21st July - 13th August, our sessions will include a free lunch provided by @theslamwichclub for every child who attends (up to 20 children and on a first come first served basis). Food will be served around 12pm. Because these are funded sessions, we will need to take a register of all attendees on the day.

We have flyers detailing our summer programme, so please pop to the Pippin during one of our sessions if you'd like to take one home. Some notable dates are this Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd when we'll be working with Safeguarding Consultant Kirrin and artist Nadine, on our ethos and banner making!

This week:

🦺 Wednesday 22nd July
⏰ 12 - 4pm
📍 Neighbourhood Pact Banner Making at The Pippin

🦺 Thursday 23rd July
⏰ 12 - 4pm
📍Neighbourhood Pact Banner Making at The Pippin (HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich)

🪑Saturday 25th July
⏰ 10am - 1pm
📍 Upholstery Group Workshop at ACAVA

⚽ Saturday 25th July
⏰ 3 - 4.30pm
📍 Sports at Century Park

Next week:

🌻 Monday 27th July
⏰ 9 - 5pm
📍Secret Garden Clean-Up

🥘 Tuesday 28th July
⏰ 10am - 5pm
📍 PIP Kitchen Trip (fully booked - HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich))

🤾‍♀️ Tuesday 28th July
⏰ 4 - 5.30pm
📍 Youth Club at The Pippin

🍀 Thursday 30th July
⏰ 12 - 4pm
📍Moss Hunt at The Pippin (HAF session with free lunch provided by Slamwich)

🌻 Saturday 1st August
⏰ 1 - 3pm
📍 Gardening Club at The Pippin

⚽ Saturday 1st August
⏰ 3 - 4.30pm
📍 Sports at Century Park

Have a lovely week 🙂

#Stoke #SummerHolidays

It’s our first week of Summer programme at The P

It’s our first week of Summer programme at The Pippin! Today we have gardening club led by our brilliant artist gardener in residence, Deb! @msdmeanar
TOMORROW 👉👉 we have our continued project The Neighbourhood Pact, and this week, Kirrin will be joined by @nadinewilde_ as we embark on a collective banner to represent some key points from our Pact, our Ethos! Tomorrow, almost all of our team will work with neighbours, guided by Kirrin and Nadine!
(Swipe for some beautiful banner reference from Nadine!) 🌻🌞
A playful two-day workshop will use drawing, collage, and simple stitching techniques. With guidance from Kirrin, we’ll explore what helps us feel safe, welcome, and seen in our neighbourhood. Using colour and image-making, we’ll share our ideas and create individual patchwork pieces that will be joined together to make a large welcome banner for the new building!