This commission was for a white Ordination stole with a pale colour scheme. My client was a musician and a singer who played the cello and sang in a choir and wanted her stole to reflect this. As a starting…
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The Heraldic
It was important to this commission that it had a strong heraldic feel. I was asked to include a lion rampant, entwined in passion flowers, holding a pomegranate that is split open showing its seeds. A unicorn with head bowed…
New challenges
My latest commission has given me a couple of new challenges, musical notation and words. My client, a cellist and singer, was very keen that the musical notation was ‘correct’ in its appearance and not circles on sticks. I printed…
There’ll Be Bluebirds
This stole commission features a Celtic cross, created using three layers of silk stitched and then cut to reveal the colours underneath. The crosses were stitched first and then applied to the stole. The ‘bluebirds’ represent the connection to where…
The Road Not Taken
This is a red Ordination stole for a priest who is to be ordained in the Diocese of Coventry. The brief was to reflect the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, with an emphasis on a path through…
New Life
This commission was for a white Ordination stole for the summer 2021. The client had a number of ideas for their stole and after the ideas and initial designs were shared it was decided to have a design that reflected…
Gnarled Trees
This commission is for an Ordination taking place in the summer, all being well ! It is in ivory silk dupion with machine appliqued trees. The trunk is worked in my ‘cutting away’ technique and the leaves are free-machined in…
Portland Bill
This stole had a number of different elements to it, the first and most tricky being the brief !! I was asked if I could incorporate the Portland Bill lighthouse, the sea, a reference to Portland stone quarried in the…
White Lutyens Chasuble
This chasuble was commissioned by my sister and the parishioners of St Peter’s, Radway in the Benefice of Edge Hill, Warwickshire. It was to be a leaving gift when she moved from Warwickshire, where she was a curate, to Wirral,…
Rainbow Butterflies
This stole was commissioned by a daughter for her mum. There is a sad story behind it. I was originally asked to replicate a stole that had been commissioned by her grandmother for her mother before she passed away. She…