This past Sunday was the start of a new sermon series at church. It will run until Christmas, covering different aspects of prayer with the theme of "Come, Lord Jesus." The Preacher asked me to make a small banner to hang on the front of the pulpit to go along with the theme. This sort of sewing makes me nervous. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not an artist. I don't have great ideas for interpreting themes or symbols or combining them and I feel pretty inexperienced and uncreative in what media and skills I am able to use. Church banners are a little like theatrical makeup - it has to be a bit over-the-top up close so that it looks okay from a distance. Anything too subtle just gets lost. Size and scale are much different, too. I don't have much confidence in my ability to judge these things in the design/construction phase. And then knowing that the thing is just going to hang there week after week for a coup...
A show-and-tell blog for my sewing (with a little knitting mixed in)