New Stained Glass at Long Meadow Farms
Posted by Kirk M on 19 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Long Meadow Farms Quilts
It’s the middle of February here in Newport as it is everywhere else for that matter and with it comes that wonderful malady called Cabin Fever. However, that doesn’t stop the owner of Long Meadow Farms Quilts from getting ready for Spring by slowly reworking the interior of her shop with the essence of the warmth to come starting with the Spring type flowers she hangs outside her door even if they are the artificial type. They kind of have to be this time of year. Inside you can find hanging garlands of Spring flowers around her back window and the beginnings of the Spring showing up in her quilted products that adorn the shelves, racks and walls. Much like seeing the first signs of Spring making themselves known through the last of the Winter snows that lie over the land, Spring is starting to poke it’s way throughout the interior of her quilt shop. And just because it’s currently in the middle of the “Long Haul” of Winter up in the Northeast Kingdom, it hasn’t slowed down her production either and that includes her new stained glass items, two of which I’d like to do a bit of “showing off” here. The first stained glass piece is a Celtic Knot hanging stained glass piece which you can hang in the window of your choice. As you can see by the excerpt below and the links included, these knots have a long history to them shrouded in mists of mystery and magic:
Celtic knots are a variety of (mostly endless) knots and stylized graphical decoration, adopted by the ancient Celts. Though Celtic knots were being created in pre-Christian times, these knots are most known for their use in the ornamentation of Christian monuments and manuscripts like the 8th century Book of Kells. (Source: Wikipedia)
The second stained glass piece being of a more Victorian flavor which will be framed by yours truly before being put on display. This is the kind of piece that you might see embedded in an old style architectural transom (a window above a window or a door) that’s typically found in a well preserved 1800’s Victorian style building or house.
There is of course much more that has been done and I’ll post more of these wonderful items here in the near future but in the meantime, for anyone that might be interested, all these new items are on Laurie’s Long Meadow Farms website so feel free to take a look.
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