The brief I have for this commission is for an altar fall and co-ordinated pulpit fall. The church is St Peter’s, so having spoken with the minister we decided on using the symbolism of fish and the crossed keys of…
Category: My Work
Final flourishes and finishing touches !
At this stage I am beginning to see that the end is in sight. The applique leaves are ready to be stitched in place. I do this by hand, wearing my very fetching magnifiers, so that I can keep my stitches…
Leaves begin to appear
Now that the tree trunk is in place I can start to add the leaves. They are worked in exactly the same way as the background and trunk the only difference is the width of the zig-zag stitching. I decided…
Autumn Leaves
One of my favourite techniques is ‘reverse applique’. For this stole I have used it on some of the leaves I wanted to give an autumn feel to. I layered the three colours of silks one on top of the…
The Oak Tree
This stole was commissioned by a priest who wanted an oak tree, as it was her father’s favourite tree. It is worked in dupion silks, with small elements of goldwork. Actual oak leaves were rubbed to create the shapes for…
A hard lesson learnt!
A very salutary lesson was learnt with this stole. I packaged up the silk samples & my full sized original drawing and sent it off 1st class mail to the client. It never arrived !!! This meant going back to…
From tiny Acorns…
This stole is my very first true commission and I am both excited and a little trepidatious. I have been asked if I can design something for ‘ordinary time’, so the main colour is to be green. The client wanted…
Alpha and Omega
Now I am on a roll. I did not realise when I said ‘yes’ to the ordination stole that it would lead me to a full set! The inspiration for this stole is Advent and Lent. We chose the symbols…
Bishop Edward King Chapel Stole
This commission came from a priest who had completed her training at Ripon College, Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire. She asked if I could use the Bishop Edward King chapel at the college as inspiration. Having visited the chapel when my sister was…
The Luytens Window
One of my favourite commissions, this stole is based on the Luytens window within the crypt of Liverpool Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King and was completed in winter 2017. It is dupion silk, with a cotton backing and is…