No, not THAT idol. This is a different thing; ongoing, underhand and pervasive. No pictures today, just words…
I imagine there are very few of us in this modern world who are unaware of issues of cheap or even forced/slave labour being used to produce items. Hmm, those tasty shrimps so commonly available at the supermarket or coffee or…
And what about environmental degradation in order to produce crops like palm fruit oil?
What Lies Beneath…?
Well, I’ve just finished making the chalice pall I talked about last time. After having a little think about it I completed the embroidery, made the teeny weeny altar linen for the back, stitched the whole thing together and then sewed on the lace edging.
Let’s have a look…
Blah…!!!
I am languishing in the land of linens… help!
Continue reading “Blah…!!!”Mitres & Godets
No not that kind of mitre! Some altar cloths are simple, they only have outside corners. Others not so much. Sometimes there are cutouts, sometimes we have to do an inside corner. Sometimes we sweat…
Continue reading “Mitres & Godets”Another Set of Credence Table Cloths
It’s all very well clearing the proverbial desk when some urgent thing or prompting comes along but you do have to get back to the desk! So after that flurry of embroidery, here is the second set of credence cloths I mentioned (I think!) a while back…
Continue reading “Another Set of Credence Table Cloths”Blessings and an Altar Cloth
This week, on Monday morning to be precise, a kind lady offered to help with looking after changing the altar cloth in our parish. I was delighted! What a blessing! So without beating about the bush, let me say that I haven’t been changing it weekly. Busy? Lazy? Tired? Anyway, I have been hoping that someone would offer practical help – thank you Holy Spirit for prompting Mrs. B to step up!
After a quick conversation to determine what would work best I realized we are short a cloth and so guess what? Yes, I’m making an altar cloth right now, it’s about half sewn.
Let me share a little known horror of working with linen:
GIRM 304
I had an interesting conversation with a lovely lady earlier this week. She expressed concern that in her parish the new pastor was not using the linen lavabo towels she had made but white toweling ‘facecloths’ instead. Hmm… hmm… and hmm again!!
Continue reading “GIRM 304”ΙΗΣΟΥΣ
Let me count the ways. And show you this IHS monogram, embroidered three ways…
Continue reading “ΙΗΣΟΥΣ”A Couple of Purificators
Here are two purificators. I made one of them a little while back and one just this week from a remnant of linen left over from the monstrance veil I made a couple of weeks ago. I keep usable pieces of linen and make ‘odd’ linens or handkerchiefs to give as gifts here and there. No one seems to mind an extra purificator, especially if it’s handmade, and surely everyone should have a linen hankie in their pocket or purse, the better to deal with scraped juvenile knees and weeping women, or weeping men for that matter!
Continue reading “A Couple of Purificators”The Main Thing…
Making altar linens by hand is the main thing. Selecting the linen and preparing it; the dozen or so steps to get to the actual sewing. I rather enjoy the process! Why stitch by hand? Why not…!?
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