I wanted to share again some other designs I have been working on. These are all things I did a while ago, the stoles were done in 2020, and the palls I did back in July this year.
Stoles
These stoles were one of the first things I started with as a practical way of testing patterns and making something that could be used. So here we have the Black Madonna and the Coat of Arms on one side and St. Paul the First Hermit and the Motto on the other.
I have tweaked all the embroidery patterns since I first did them. Looking at St. Paul on the stoles and the palls, you will notice some changes. One day, once I think I have got to a point where I will not keep changing them, I will share the machine files.
In the first image, you can see all the parts stitched onto a single piece of cloth before I cut it up to make the stoles.
Palls
Another practical test run of some of the designs. Here I have the Black Madonna, St. Paul the First Hermit again (with minor changes) Bl. Eusebius (best first switching of a pattern so far), a few Coat of Arms, and a Coptic Cross.
In a previous post, I explained how I made the palls in more detail, so I will not repeat all those details here.
If you look up close, for example, at the Coat of Arms that has the red and gold border, you can see little gaps between where colours join, hence why I am still working on it. This one here was just how it came from Hatch Digitizer after automatically importing the artwork. On the other hand, the Black Madonna with the fleur-de-lis in the corner is a design I am almost sure I have got as good as I will make it after a few trials (also one I painfully traced out from a relatively poor quality photo).
The last image has the full linen set for a chalice, the pall, purification, corporal and finger towel. Here is a video of what that looks like on a chalice.