Another Kind of Stole Project

Recently, I tackled a unique project, and I thought some of you might like to see it. A retired pastor we know has a grandson who is graduating from seminary soon, and the family wanted to give him grandpa's communion kit that he used over the years. But the kit was very worn. So they gave me some of grandpa's stoles from his time in ministry, and I cut one up to recover the inside of the lid and hinge.

Below is a mid-process view, as I forgot to take a photo before I got started. But you can see the staining on the inside of the cover. One of the family will update the inside base with fabric paint, but I think my part turned out pretty good. And just for the record, I used a Fabric Fusion glue pen to affix the new purple fabric in place. For the top lining, I included the interfacing that was in the stole, so it had a little substance to it, but wasn't stiff.

 

I was actually given several stoles, and the other part of this project was to make small banners for the grandpa's six granddaughters out of three of the stoles. 

The length of each set depended on the design and the amount of fabric available. I definitely was figuring it out as I went. We thought we wanted the same amount of space above and below the design, but after making the purple set (same stole as the communion kit lining), I thought it might look better to not count the casing in that calculation. So for the olive green set, I made them a bit longer. 

Then the design was so long on the kelly green set that I just let that dictate the length. On all the stoles, the casings were hemmed and sewn by machine in coordinating thread. For the longest set, since it wasn't finished with fringe, I hand-stitched that bottom hem, which I think looked pretty nice. At any rate, this was an interesting project. I'm glad I could do it for this family, and glad it's done.