Saecula Saeculorum Design

When designing this veil, the inspiration came from medieval French stained glass windows and illustrated manuscripts. I love the accents of cobalt blue and emerald green next to all the gold, and how much detail there is behind the dove. The halo of the dove includes the triangle which is a symbol of God the Father, the gold cross is for God the Son, and obviously the dove is for the Holy Spirit. The fleur de lis is the specific French element, which were featured on Joan of Arc's battle standard!

This veil is now finished and available on my website!

Just need to add lace, and this veil will be finished!

Some more detail shots of this wedding veil embroidery!

I have this idea where if someone wanted to send me their wedding veil that I could resize the veil and add embroidery to turn the veil either into a First Holy Communion veil for a daughter or for a Sunday mass veil. Do you think that's something I should offer?

This embroidery is finished, and here are also the results of trying applique! I want to try something different to attach the applique fabric, but I was definitely able to stitch more precise details than usual.

What do you think? Do you like this applique or prefer when it's entirely stitched?

Also tried something different with the roses where I stitched pink in a short and long stitch over a white satin stitch. It was much faster and easier than when I first stitched this design and used 3 colors!

The Camino of St. James veil, but with my sister who was the one able to make the pilgrimage!