Green Eucharist Chasuble
Sorry I haven’t published anything for a while & then you get two together. This chasuble was commissioned by my sister to partner her green stole. It features the same grape vine & wheat stems design, with the addition of…
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The Crossed Keys of St Peter
I’ve been working on the Altar and Lectern falls for St Peter’s Church in Stratford-Upon-Avon and wanted to talk about a couple of techniques I’ve used in this design, Appliqué and a special goldwork technique to add a 3D effect to…
It all starts with a sketch
I was approached back in October about creating an altar & lectern fall for St Peter’s Church, Stratford-Upon-Avon, not something I’ve made before and an interesting new challenge, but where to start? The church asked me to work up a…
Once I had a little fishy ….
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Eucharist
Here is my second completed stole. This stole is in-fact one of an identical pair, made for my sister and brother-in-law. It is made from green silk Dupion, with appliqued grapes and stalks of wheat, symbolising the Eucharist. The stalks…