The Finishing touches
With all the cutting completed the stole based on Bishop Edward King Chapel was then to start piecing together. With this design I decided that the back neck piece would look better as a single piece of the white silk
Working the top stitching
I’ve been busy carrying on with the White stole based on the Bishop Edward King Chapel ceiling and am really pleased with how it’s looking so far. Now that I had completed the outline stitches from the tracing, I started
The Bishop Edward King Chapel Stole
I have another commission i’ve started this month that came from a priest who had completed her training at Ripon College in Oxford. She asked if I could base it on the Bishop Edward King chapel at the college. Having visited
A very proud moment
These last few photos are of Alex wearing her chasuble, I hope she doesn’t mind me sharing them! I have been so pleased to have been asked to make it for her, even though she is a very exacting client 🙂
And it is finished!
I have had to hold off on completing this blog as I was asked by Alex not to post pictures of her chasuble until after her ‘priesting’ and her first Eucharist service. Well she is now a fully fledged priest
Outlines and fish
Outlining with a red zig-zag stitch really highlights all the different shapes. Unfortunately the photos don’t show how jewel like the colours actually are in reality. And they are done, just the gold leather crosses to add to the fish.