For a few years now, our parish has raised funds by making and selling Palm crosses ready to be handed out on Palm Sunday. ( the last Sunday before Easter) Our 'customers' are churches and church schools and it's a 'nice little earner' for the parish. I have never made a Palm cross previously as there had always been lots of others volunteering to do that.
Last Monday after work I sat down with the bag of strips and the directions saved on my iPad.
Well I was hopeless I'm afraid to say and put the strips of palm leaves aside (in the fridge) until the next night. I managed to just make 2 on Tuesday night but they looked a bit bodgy...what was happening? I couldn't follow a simple diagram for goodness sake!!!
So by this morning I had a bundle of crosses to hand in...phew! I was a bit worried there that I would be 'letting down the side' for a while!!! Lol
The organiser has said we now have enough crosses for our customers and our parish, so the job is done.
But this year we had orders for just over 6500 crosses, so more volunteers were required. About 3 weeks before Easter there is a working bee to cut and tear Palm leaves into strips...this is some of the bundle of strips that I received.
Two strips are used to make the traditional cross...
It wasn't until my day off on Friday that I finally 'got it'...
what a lovely thing to do I always wondered who made the crosses, here they are a sort of nodescriptive beige colour not green like yours, I suppose the green fades over time though
ReplyDeleteI have never seen these crosses. When I was young we used to braid them but I don't remember exactly how it was done. Your's is a cool fund raiser.
ReplyDeleteits very cool how you make them............made many when I was in high school.........
ReplyDeleteI was getting a bit worried about you there Maria .... however, you ended up doing a great job. Lovely idea. xox
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen these for years, Maria. They're so lovely and you make them look so easy to make. I hope you had fun.
ReplyDeleteGood for you!! We don't make the palm crosses here in our parish, but I have seen others making them out of the palms we lay out on Passion Sunday. I would love to learn how to make them.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Wow, that's a lot of crosses, 6500! Children always got a palm frond to wave and brought them home and made a cross similar to the ones you made. Not sure I remember how as I haven't done it since I was a kid!
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