IT’S ALL eyes on the needles as staff at the Ashmolean Museum prepare for The Big Stitch event tomorrow.

Together with the Embroiderers’ Guild, the museum is putting on a day of sewing-related activities.

Visitors can study the history of embroidery in The Eye of the Needle exhibition, take part in workshops and lectures and see both modern and traditional embroidery demonstrations.

Organiser and the museum’s Eastern Art administrator Aimee Payton said: “We’ve got 29 people demonstrating their craft across the museum and all sorts of activities for people.

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“Most excitingly we have the world’s longest embroidery that the Embroiderers’ Guild made in 2012 and we’ll be making it even longer.”

Volunteers spent yesterday making 1,000 embroidery kits to give out to museum visitors at the event.

Ms Payton said: “They are a bit of thread, fabric, a needle and instructions.

“We gave kits out in 2012 and once people had finished them lots of people sent them back to the Guild. They’ve all been sewn together and will be on display.”

The Big Stitch runs from 11am to 4pm. For a full programme of events, visit ashmolean.org


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