Adventures in Sewing for the Church and Vestment Making
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The Process of Making Vintage Embroidery Patterns Usable
Treasure hunting can be a great deal of fun, especially if you actual stumble across a bit of treasure. Treasure can be a wide variety of things to many people.…...
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ISH Lenten Hand Embroidery Design
With the season of Lent soon beginning, a few new Ecclesiastical Hand Embroidery Designs have been cropping up in the workroom. It is fun to take some of beautiful old…...
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Trash or Treasure?
When you look at the above illustration, what do you see? Is this something for the trash heap, torn and mutilated as it is, or is this a rare and…...
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Updating Pattern Drafting Tools
There is nothing like having the correct tools for getting a job done. Ecclesiastical Sewing is no exception. When it comes to making Ecclesiastical Vestment Patterns and drafting Ecclesiastical Embroidery…...
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Chalice Veil Design from Althea Wiel
The use of symbolism in Ecclesiastical Embroidery Designs has a long and rich history. It goes back to the first books of the Bible and the instructions given to Moses and…...
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From the Beginning in The Tale of Two Lambs
One Ecclesiastical Embroidery project times two, in large and small. That is The Tale of Two Lambs. What started as a small Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) hand embroidery design…...
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Results of Organization Weekend
It was a long-awaited 4-day weekend. I had envisioned the weekend spent working on Ecclesiastical Sewing projects and continuing on several Ecclesiastical Embroidery projects that are underway, including some much-needed…...
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The Never Ending Quest for Ecclesiastical Designs
Years ago, while still in college, when I made my very first Church vestment – a pastoral stole. The only available Ecclesiastical Embroidery Design resource available was a vestment catalog. It had…...