Anyone whose ever quilted has noticed that there are a lot of cross and star patterns. These are the most popular, I think, because it's easy to divide an area into 1/2's 1/4's and 1/8's. It got me thinking while at Quilt Odyssey, that maybe I ought to design some crosses and stars.
I know of several area congregations holding services in rented quarters. The congregants are inspired, but the surroundings are not.
Stained glass is so associated with religious buildings that I got to thinking that I could design medium sized devotional panels that could move when the church finds a permanent home. If I build it correctly, these could even be incorporated into larger windows should the church wish to later.
It's proved surprisingly hard to design something that is brilliant at the right scale. The panels have to be light enough to hang from a variety of window types, but be large enough to be a major element in the sacred space.
I'm still playing with scale for the first piece, a stylized cross in a circle in a square. It comes in at 16" square, which is fine for a home, but a bit small for a meeting area. I'm leery of going larger than 20" though, since the piece starts to get heavy. I do have a color palette, with brilliant reds in the center ,a steel blue cross, a textured yellow gold as the nimbus and a peachy color for the background. I'm surrounding the piece with a paler blue glass and bright red in the corners.
Preliminary designs and pictures to follow later this week.
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