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People in Leicester are being invited to take part in Social Stitch Gatherings at the Leicester Museum on New Walk. An exhibition is currently taking place there celebrating the work of Leicester's Mary Linwood - an embroidery artist and also the first woman to run her own gallery in London in 1809. The exhibition is the first retrospective of Mary Linwood’s work since 1945, featuring 14 embroidered works from the Leicester Museums collections. Â鶹Éç Leicester reporter Kevin Ncube went down to have a look for himself with curator of the exhibition Ruth Singer.