A community textile project aimed at keeping people connected during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown will be on display in Stratford later this year.
The project, Taranaki APart Together, was the brainchild of a group of friends that included New Plymouth district councillor Amanda Clinton-Gohdes and New Plymouth MP Glen Bennett.
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Their idea was based on the idea of people being able to work together even when lockdowns and Covid-19 restrictions were keeping them apart. They asked people to make individual squares for a quilt that could then be connected after lockdown to create a community quilt.
Once they had put the call out and created a Taranaki APart Together Facebook page, beautiful squares began flooding in as knitters and sewing enthusiasts, along with people who had never tried quilting before, gave it a go.