St.
Clare
Patron of embroiderers and
needleworkers
Founded
the Order of
Poor Ladies (Poor Clares)
The St. Clare’s Needle Arts Guild is
designed to take advantage of the ECW website by providing ideas and
resources to women interested in some aspect of needle arts, be it
needlepoint, knitting, crochet, embroidery, fine altar linens or
anything else. There is no meeting time, though people may find our
webpage useful in organizing their own small meetings to plan and/or
design projects, teach and/or learn from each other or stitch together
in fellowship. There are no dues and there is no roster, beyond the
information provided below. Women are free to add their names to as
many lists as they like (see below), and can remove their names at will, with
no questions asked. The ECW hopes that women in the diocese of Alabama
and beyond will find this a helpful tool in pursuing their interests
in needle arts, as well as joining hands in shared ministry with their
sister stitchers. As in some other ECW ministries, men are invited and
welcome.
Links and Lists: please review and send changes to Alleen
Cater at
alleenc@bellsouth.net
Ongoing
projects in search of helpers:
Ongoing
Ministries:
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Sucarnochee Purls:
St. James Livingston/ecumenical, prayer shawls, lap robes, baby
sweaters, chemo caps, Maggie Noland
maggienoland@hotmail.com
Click here to see more info and
accompanying prayer
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Knitting guild: St. Mary’s o-t-H Bhm, Pam Stone
dalenpamstone@aol.com
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Prayer
shawls: St. Stephen’s Bhm, Dee Shirley
nshirley@att.net
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Common
Thread: Moses’ Baskets, St. Luke’s Scottsboro, Gini Stone
moody000@centurytel.net
Moses' Basket provides a layette for newborns of mothers referred
from DHR and CASA. The "basket" is a large brown bag with rope
handle and a label on the front with the Moses' Basket logo designed
by a church member (woman). Each basket contains sleepers,
onesies, shirts, blankets, bottles, pacifier, booties, bibs, a book
plus a care package for the mommy with body lotion, body wash and
hand cream.
Needlepointers:
Scroll
down below to Photos of Projects section to
see link to article about needlepoint kneelers at Trinity Church
(Bessemer) Chapel.
Knitters/Crocheters:
Sewers
and Embroider:
Counted
Cross-Stitchers, Quilters, etc. :
Will
Teach:
Eager to
Learn:
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Charlotte Marbory
cgm308@bellsouth.net (St. Andrew’s Tuskegee)
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Grace Gilchrist, 1130 Wisteria Drive, Tuscaloosa 35405,
205-752-8302 (Christ Church Tuscaloosa)
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Altar
hangings: Pam Stone
dalenpamstone@aol.com
General
Interest:
please specify, so we can move you to the correct list/s
Designers:
Free
Patterns:
The
Stash:
Interest in Seminars, Groups, etc.:
let us know of your
interests and we will post here
Examples
of Accompanying Devotionals, Cards, etc., for items made for pastoral
care:
Photos
of projects:
A
picture is worth a thousand words and might inspire new projects.
Please send in digital format to
webmaster@alabamaecw.org
for posting here.
 See the article written by Alleen
Cater in the
June 2008 issue of
The Apostle (see page 9), Working Together To Create
Commemorative Needlepoint Kneelers, which details the project to
complete the beautiful kneelers at Trinity Church's (Bessemer)
Chapel.
Links: please let us know of any more links you think
would be helpful for others
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Mission Statement:
Our mission is to provide hope, love, and healing to our community
through the work of our hands while exploring our own relationship
with God through needle arts. Handiwork provides an opportunity to
for us to meditate and fellowship while providing practical goods
to those in need. Practicing needle arts in solitude gives
us a time and space to listen to God, sharing our needle arts with
others allows us to celebrate God's presence with us, and the
gifts we make are a tangible symbol of God's love for us all.
Devotion
St.
Clare of Assisi,
late
12th -13th centuries,
whose
feast day is August 11:
“If memory serves me correctly, there was a movie made several
years ago upon the relationship between Clare and Francis of Assisi,
staring Helena Bonham Carter as Clare and Mickey Rourke (yes, the
Mickey Rourke of 9½ Weeks) as St. Francis. Perhaps the less said the
better. As regards the real saint, moved by Francis' preaching and his
burden for the poor, the noble-born Clare sought to follow in his
footsteps. According to legend, Francis himself cut Clare's hair and
bestowed upon her the Franciscan habit.
Unfortunately,
rather than being able to follow her vocation and serve the poor
actively, Clare was forced (because she was a woman) to pursue her
vocation as best she could within the confines of the cloister. She
founded the Franciscan order of the Poor Clares and led the community
until ill health forced her to resign. Like their founder, the Poor
Clares observed a rule of absolute poverty.
Aside from the fact that Clare was a remarkable woman, as patron
saint she offers an added bonus: she is also the patron saint of the
blind, so if you suffer from eyestrain because of your knitting,
you're covered. “
From ‘Ask Liesl’, Friends at the
Advent, a group of singles and couples in their 20s and 30s who attend
the Church of the Advent in Beacon Hill, Boston, MA.
www.friendsattheadvent.org/askliesl/20040301/00/
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