Quilted prayer shawls are a newer phenomenon. These are small quilts designed to be wrapped around the person like a stole. Basically, as the quilter is piecing the quilt together and doing the quilting, they are also praying for the person and so the concept is very similar to the prayer shawls. It's a way for people who don't knit or crochet but DO sew to also be part of this caring ministry. I happen to knit, crochet, AND sew but I just wanted to try my hand at making a quilted prayer shawl and that's why I chose this form.
I kind of made the pattern up as I went along. I had a general idea of the proportions I was aiming for and knew that this would equate to a 2-block-wide long rectangular quilted piece. I wanted to have several blocks that would encompass Christian symbols and thus my pieced cross.
I added several heart blocks. In this block I freeform machine quilted dragonflies around the heart.
This heart had a simple stipple pattern of quilting around the heart.
The rest of the quilt were simple fabric squares that I used to machine quilt freehand phrases such as this square where I put the words "Be comforted." (I made this quilt shawl for a young mother whose baby passed away)
This one says "Peace to you."
I quilted a block with little suns and some with Bible verse citations. The quilt sashing was just freeform stipple quilted.
This is how the back looks.
And there you have the final quilted prayer shawl.
Project 365 - June 13, 2010 (Day 17)
A closeup of the back of the quilted prayer shawl.
1 comment:
I've not heard of a quilted prayer shawl, but perfect timing that I read this as we have our organizational meeting tonight at church to start up this ministry. What dimensions do you use for a quilted prayer shawl? It is beautiful by the way.
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