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Category: Work in Progress

The Heraldic

25th March 202116th April 2024 Elaine BradshawFinished Commissions, My Work, Stoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on 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…

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New challenges

24th March 202117th April 2024 Elaine BradshawWork in Progress2 Comments on 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…

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Portland Bill

18th January 202116th April 2024 Elaine BradshawFinished Commissions, Stoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on 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…

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I Will Pour Out My Spirit

5th October 202016th April 2024 Elaine BradshawFinished Commissions, My Work, Stoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on I Will Pour Out My Spirit

This is my most recent commission, for an ordination stole. I was asked to include the words ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people’ and flames as a starting point for the design. My first designs had flames…

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Couching the Tree of Life

14th April 20207th September 2020 Elaine BradshawMy Work, Stoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Couching the Tree of Life

Over the last couple of months I’ve been working on my latest commission – the Celtic Tree of Life Stole. This commission came from Waterford in Ireland, so my first international client! I was asked to reflect the elements of…

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Joy to the World this Easter

12th April 20206th December 2020 Elaine BradshawMy Work, Stoles, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Joy to the World this Easter

I know it’s been a difficult few weeks for all of us, being apart from the ones we love is very hard and especially so at times of celebration like Easter. I had been thinking of a new project originally…

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Panels All Finished

4th March 20204th March 2020 Elaine BradshawAltar and Pulpit Falls, My Work, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Panels All Finished

OK so all the panels are now finished and it is time to attach them to the background. As this is my first altar cloth I have to admit to being ever so slightly nervous. Questions I keep asking myself…

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Stitching, Couching and a trip to John Lewis!

12th February 202012th February 2020 Elaine BradshawAltar and Pulpit Falls, My Work, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Stitching, Couching and a trip to John Lewis!

Although it was back in January when I last posted such a lot has happened on this commission since then. Plenty of stitching both machine and hand, some Trapunto work (not done since my C&G’s back in the early 90’s!),…

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Procrastinating Over

17th January 202018th January 2020 Elaine BradshawAltar and Pulpit Falls, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Procrastinating Over

Well after the Christmas & New Year break I have finally finished procrastinating & have begun the preparations for the St James’ altar fall. The trickiest part turned out to be working out how much silk to buy. It was…

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Altar Fall, St James, Alveston

4th December 20194th December 2019 Elaine BradshawLectern, Pulpit & Altar Falls, Work in ProgressLeave a Comment on Altar Fall, St James, Alveston

This project has been buzzing around in my head for quite a while since the idea was first suggested to me by the vicar of St James, who just happens to be my brother in law! It has actually been…

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