This week at Pulling Together we have continued with our A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing sessions on Zoom. The benefit of a virtual session over our actual sessions is that we can schedule in extra sessions during the week to discuss how we make masks and where to find the best patterns for masks. The mask patterns that some of us have decided to use are from Patrick Grant of The Great British Sewing Bee as part of the Big Community Sew Project.

This week at Pulling Together we would like to thank our group in helping to stitch together the panels into our banner. The banner is a wonderfully creative piece of work to display our time in lockdown.

This week at Pulling Together has been very busy we have begun to embroider our individual panels for our Lockdown Banner. Drawing, designing and adapting each image into a special format for the embroidery machine took a while however the end results were very impressive.

This week at Pulling Together’s Zoom meeting we continued to decide what images would be added to our A-Z of Mental Health and Wellbeing banner. After 100 days of lockdown it was decided that this banner would reflect the last few months and the changes we have all made. Working through the list it was fun to see how new words had all become part of our everyday vocabulary- Social Distance, Zoom, Covid-19. Whilst working through the list talking about each of the topics became an important part of the project especially when we looked at isolation and the problems it caused to our mental health and wellbeing during lockdown.

Thank you to everyone who sent these images through during the session.