We’ve been asking what ‘Sharing Love’ means to each of us. This has been a community wide activity including as many of our sewing hubs who have been interested in participating, with a focus on a new textiles exhibition called Soft Power at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. The project involves the making of 3 dresses: one from contributions from participants from around the world at our different sewing hubs. One from participants seeking refuge in Bristol and then a paper dress from visitors to the exhibition.
This is the dress from contributions from participants for our global sewing hubs.
Participants have shared all sorts of messages about their motivation to sharing love, for example:
Nancy says “When I give a helping hand through Biblical guidance I am sharing God’s love.”
Maxmilla shares “Working together [through farming for example] in unity promotes harmony in society and strength in oneness”
Lynet challenges us to “love through encouraging people to plant trees, which helps people out of poverty and hunger.”
Salome explains “I make small handkerchiefs and give them as gifts, this is my way of blessing people and sharing love.”
Evelyn shares “offering compliments, doing acts of kindness, small gifts, giving time: these are all ways we can share love.”
Poul explains “God shares his love with us, we are more than a flower to Him.”