The Story so far…….

 WALL HANGING – SATURDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2017
Work is progressing well on the Wall Hanging.  Many parts of the design are now coming together – but there’s still a long way to go!

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WALL HANGING – SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER & 8 OCTOBER 2016
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‘SEEING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES’ MAKING SENSE OF MAPPING – SATURDAY 7 MAY 2016
A Diocesan MAPping Day was organised by the Missional Leadership Development Group  at St Ninian’s Troon on Saturday 7 May. The contributors for the day gave a varied and honest picture of MAPping in the diocese. The event started with David Cook from St Michael’s Helensburgh, followed by Rachel Hill from Christ Church Lanark.

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Gill Young convenor of the Provincial Mission Planning Network encouraged everyone to share encouraging stories and Bishop Gregor spoke of his positive experiences of conducting MAP reviews. Marilyn Pope from St Oswald’s Maybole gave the final presentation including material from all 4 years of their MAP.

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There was a high level of engagement with honest and helpful discussions. The venue was very central and a delicious soup and sandwich lunch provided.

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WALL HANGING – SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016
The work continued on the Wall Hanging, making the leaf packs, blossom and the Roundels which represent the groups that use the Hall.

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More photos are available in the Gallery – click here.

PREPARING LEAF PACKS FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS – SATURDAY 16 APRIL
On Saturday morning work centred around preparing packs to go into six local schools to enable each child to contribute in some way to the wall hanging. This will depend on their age and ability, with younger ones hopefully printing leaves and older ones carry out some basic sewing.

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WALL HANGING OPEN DAY – SATURDAY 12th DECEMBER
The Team held their first Open Day on Saturday 12th December so that everyone could see how the project was progressing and talk to the ladies who have been creating this master piece. Festive refreshments were served and everyone was amazed to see how the individual parts of the project are being worked up.  To view the Gallery of pictures please click here.

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St Ninian

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WALL HANGING MEETING – SATURDAY 31st OCTOBER
Work has now started on the first part of the text for the Hanging and autumn leaves have been added to undergrowth.  Also one of the roundels has begun to be planned out.

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WALL HANGING MEETING – SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER

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The design for the harbour area

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WALL HANGING MEETING – SATURDAY 19th SEPTEMBER 2015
A further meeting took place with more work being down of the Hanging.  This time the ladies had a new member of the team!
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THE WORK CONTINUES – 29th AUGUST 2015
Work is continuing on the stitching of the church and in particular the windows.  Material is being prepared for the sea and sky.  More pictures have been added to Wall Hanging Gallery 3

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WORK ON THE WALL HANGING RESUMES AFTER THE SUMMER – 22nd AUGUST 2015
Work on the Troon Wall Hanging has resumed after the Summer break.  The Team met again on Saturday 22nd August to continue working on the project and see what progress had been made during the summer.  Details of future meeting dates can be found here and there are more pictures on the Gallery page.

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WORK IN PROGRESS  – MAY & JUNE 2015
Meetings continued through May & June, progressing with the church, Celtic knot and preparation for the roundels.

Guests at the Wine & Nibbles Evening look at the progress so far.

Guests at the Wine & Nibbles Evening look at the progress so far.

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PROJECT MEETING – SATURDAY 2ND MAY 2015
Work is now really beginning in earnest on various parts of the Wall Hanging.  Two teams have been putting together the Celtic Knot, others traced birds and a figure of St Ninian and cut out patterns ready to sew them and work has also commenced on St. Ninian’s Church.

Working on the Celtic Knot

Working on the Celtic Knot

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Tracing designs

Tracing designs

PROJECT MEETING SATURDAY 18TH APRIL 2015
Work has now commenced on the celtic knot section of the Hanging in the middle of the design.  Everyone also enjoyed a Tour of the church given by David Sutherland to learn more about the history of the building and in particular the Arts & Crafts features and the Thompson Mice.

Beginning the Tour of the Church

Beginning the Tour of the Church

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Working on the celtic knot

 

PROJECT MEETING SATURDAY 22nd MARCH 2015
A second meeting took place and during this time all the fabric and threads were sorted into colours and there was an opportunity to have a go at working on an appliqué leaf.

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THE PROGRESS REPORT  SATURDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2015
The first planning meeting, following the launch on Saturday 21st February, took place on 28th February in St Ninian’s Church Hall.

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The email address for any enquiries is troonwallhanging@gmail.

THE BACKGROUND…
The Troon Wall Hanging is an initiative born out of the strategic intention of Going for Growth in the Glasgow & Galloway Diocese and each charge has developed their own Mission Action Plan.  You can read more about the background to this in Troon by clicking here .