Carmarthenshire Connect

The Lost Skills Found Friends group celebrated Adult Learners' Week today with an exhibition and workshop sessions at St Barnabus Hall in Glanymor & Tyisha.

Members of Lost Skills Found Friends

Lost Skills Found Friends is a Llanelli based group that has been running for nearly two years. The aims of the group are twofold: to build new skills in arts and crafts and to build friendships. The group has gone form strength to strength since it started. The group meets twice a week - on Mondays at the Ganymor & Tyisha Communities First Office and Thursdays at St Barnabus Hall, Llanelli.

The group's members make a variety of items based on

gift ideas
plastic canvas work
beadcraft
wool/yarn craft, and
paper craft

The group also works on projects, the most significant of which to date has been the The Village project. This is a model village and is made of a variety of yarns and plastic canvas and consists of all sorts of buildings and features commonly found in the community. None of The Village items were made using patterns: all were made using group members' skills. The village is extensive, covering around 9 tables when it is displayed in full. The video below shows some of the village that was on display today.

All the members of Lost Skills Found Friends present at today's exhibition had a go taking photos on Carmarthenshire Connect's mobile phones for this blog - below are some of them.