Sharons Custom Embroidery

I have had fun making lace bookmarks. There are so many great patterns that I can’t decide which one is my favorite. Look at them and let me know which is your favorite.  

Boy life has been busy since my husband and I have both retired. That sounds weird! I thought only old people could retire. Everyone at church says we are tooooooooo young to be retired but let me tell you we are enjoying it. We have been able to help our son, Brandon, when he moved for his job to Sugar Land, Tx and that we great. Had David not retired I am not sure how that would have happened. It was super being able to go with him to find his house to rent and then helping him move. I helps for me to know where my babies are, so that when they talk about things I can relate.

Right now things have slowed down a bit and I have been able to do some projects for others. Below you will see a stole that I made for our church staff to give our pastor that was leaving. I had taken a picture of the cross in the front of our church. It is very special because we have redecorated our church and it has stayed the same. It is very comforting to look  at the same cross that you have looked at for the past 45 years. We hope that it will be a special reminder to him of the time he preached at our church.

Our Associate pastor has just been ordained and her best friend wanted me to make her a stole. She wanted one that would help her celebrate this occasion. She also wanted a special inscription sewn into the stole. It expressed her feeling toward Shannon and how proud she was of her accomplishment. Shannon helped us by selecting the pattern that she wanted embroidered on it. I also had a selection of green material that she was able to choose from.

I was commissioned by a church in Massachusetts to make a stole for their Pastor who is leaving after 6 years of service to their congregation. I hope you enjoy the photos of the stole.     

Some keychains I’ve been working on!

I have been very busy in the past month or so. I took my stoles to United Methodist General Conference in Baton Rouge, La. I had a table and a hanging display of them. I had 15 of them. Baptism, Communion, Wedding, Lent, Easter, Advent, Christmas, Red Patchwork for Pentecost, Green and Blue Patchwork, Green one with descending doves, etc. I am posting pictures of them so that you can see them. I met a lot of people and hope to get with each of them to make their special stole.

These embroidery pieces were designed from pictures of the stainglass windows in our sanctuary. Rev. Irby was moving to another church after 10 years. These windows are in the balcony of UUMC. He looked at these windows every Sunday when he preached.

Stitched signatures of those that worked with him during the ten years at the church.

Farewell wish for Rev. Irby stitched inside the Stole.