My daughter’s (now ex-)school has a wonderful tapestry cushion project going, whereby people can embroider a tapestry cushion to donate to the chapel on behalf of someone of their choice. Most people chose to donate on behalf of their daughters at the school, but I did one each for my two sons as well as this one for my daughter, for fairness as the boys’ school doesn’t do stuff like that. People’s cushions were sometimes a multi-generational affair, with grandmothers, mothers and daughters all contributing to the embroidery of their cushion. A number of different designs are available and the aim is for no two cushions to be alike but all matching with similar borders in a few colourways and for each design to have some biblical significance (they are chapel cushions after all). They are used in the chapel for special occasions, and there is a lovely book with photographs of each one and a brief summary of its maker/s as well as its dedicatee (not sure if that’s a word…)
Anyhoo, this is the first cushion I did, for my daughter. I chose this design because I liked the colours of soft pinks, terracottas and greens, as well as the palm leaf design.
Cushion, specimen 2, to be featured tomorrow, and 3 the day after…
