Lost At E Minor: For creative people » cool needlepoint http://www.lostateminor.com Lost At E Minor: For creative people Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 British inmates learning needlepoint http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/01/14/british-inmates-learning-needlepoint/ http://www.lostateminor.com/2011/01/14/british-inmates-learning-needlepoint/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:00:59 +0000 Clare Hillier http://www.lostateminor.com/?p=49516 You know the saying, ‘A stitch in time, saves nine’. Well, if Fine Cell Work have anything to do with it, it will soon become, ‘A stitch in time, to pay for your crime!’ This improbable charity, teaches needlepoint to British inmates. The prisoners do the work while they are locked in their cells and [...]

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You know the saying, ‘A stitch in time, saves nine’. Well, if Fine Cell Work have anything to do with it, it will soon become, ‘A stitch in time, to pay for your crime!’ This improbable charity, teaches needlepoint to British inmates.

The prisoners do the work while they are locked in their cells and get to keep 30 per cent of the profits from each piece that they sell. Fascinatingly, 80 per cent of Fine Cell Work’s stitchers are men. It gives a whole new meaning to chain(stitch) gangs, don’t you think?

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