Clever Pigeon Molly Vetter is a minister in Redondo, CA who had the brilliant idea of designing stoles that you can buy and sew yourself! PeaceBang doesn’t know how to sew more than a button, but she knows that many of you are crafty little children and will be very interested in this idea.
Here is Molly’s lovely blog/website and here is one of her Lenten stole designs. I like this one the best because I am not personally a fan of stoles that have text on them. What do you think? Let Molly know and for heaven’s sake go buy some of her work!
Very neat! Thanks for sharing. If you don’t like stoles with words, am I to assume that you would not approve of this sassy little number? (it caused me to fall out when I saw it)
http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=348294
[Tacky, tacky, tacky. - PB]
Hard to believe that green number is out of stock . . . [I bet if you write to the designer she'll set you up. - PB]
I was taught that the stole itself is a symbol, and thus ought not be used as a billboard onto which to put other symbols or words. When, as in the case of the Cokesbury link above, the designer felt a need to put “Holy” three times (!) onto the stole, the very holiness of the stole itself and the office of ordained ministry it symbolizes has gone unrecognized. [Thank you for explaining what I felt intuitively. - PB]
The one pictured here looks like a hand grabbing a boob.