I am working with learners in Littledean to create a Community Textile for the village. As far as we know this has not been done before in the village. Learners felt it would be good to record the village landmarks as they are in 2010. The textile will be completed by the end of the year and will feature the local school, church, chapel, pub, our millennium field, the local meat and veg shop (including the owner Pete the Meat) and even the local bus! We have walked around the village and taken lots of photographs. The village is surrounded by glorious countryside and so this will feature prominently as well. The project has caused a lot of interest and most weeks we have visits by local folk to see how we are getting on. Sometimes visitors are from further afield as you can see by this photo. It also dispels the myth that men don't sew - this gang of four had a great time and the Arch Bishop stayed much longer than he intended. No - none of this was in the session plan, but learners loved sharing what they had achieved and explaining the plans for the textiles. There are photos of our progress on the AdEd 'flickr' site and on my own 'flickr' site.