Set up over 40 years ago the Needlework and Handcraft Group at Cosham Community Centre started life at Cosham Park House, the mid-nineteenth century listed building which is now a doctor's surgery.
The group meet every Tuesday and Friday morning at the Community Centre in Wooton Street and offers a variety of crafts including patchwork, applique, beadwork, cross-stitch, knitting, embroidery, crochet and all forms of paper craft.
I met June and Brenda from the group at the McMillan Coffee morning and popped in to see them the following week to chat about the possibility of members creating some handmade wheels from fabric, thread, wool and other craft materials. The Group took up the challenge and have made some fantastic wheels for me to incorporate into the bridge designs.
The ladies are not new to a challenge and in 2000 began the mammoth task of embroidering the history of Cosham for the millennium. Two and a half years and 32,000 stitches later it was completed and is now part of Portsmouth Museum's collections.
The group meet every Tuesday and Friday morning at the Community Centre in Wooton Street and offers a variety of crafts including patchwork, applique, beadwork, cross-stitch, knitting, embroidery, crochet and all forms of paper craft.
I met June and Brenda from the group at the McMillan Coffee morning and popped in to see them the following week to chat about the possibility of members creating some handmade wheels from fabric, thread, wool and other craft materials. The Group took up the challenge and have made some fantastic wheels for me to incorporate into the bridge designs.
The ladies are not new to a challenge and in 2000 began the mammoth task of embroidering the history of Cosham for the millennium. Two and a half years and 32,000 stitches later it was completed and is now part of Portsmouth Museum's collections.