Angel Wings

For years I have been drawn to angels and anything related to them.

I have taken a look at how many things around my home are angel related and am including some pictures here.

I know quite a few people in my life that are drawn to angels. Just this past June I made a quilted throw for a cousin in Montana who was very ill after an operation. She too loves angels and felted blessed and loved at my simple creation with thoughts for her. It lifted her spirits and she felt helped her make a remarkably faster recovery than anticipated.


A wonderful angel website (www.angel-guide.com) with many things to explore had this beautiful quote:

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo

Indianchild.com had this wonderful information for me to take in:

Angels - the word is derived from the Greek etymology meaning ‘messenger’. The usual image we have of an angel is a cute little winged creature playing the harp and spreading the message of love and peace across the world. In fact there are several kinds of angels we believe in such as guardian angels, attendants, messengers and so on. So strong is our belief in these that we have captured these benevolent little spirits into angel statues as masterpieces of art and sculpting. Right from the Renaissance Age till date, artists have been creating Angel statues due to the religious and emotional characteristics attached to them. Angel statues are for religious purposes, as garden statues, home décor, in offices, in museums for informative displays, and many other places not mentioned here.

As mentioned before, an angel statue depicts a unique theme or message. An angel donning armour is an emblem of truth and one bearing a sword depicts justice. As angels are basically associated with ‘message carriers’, they are meant to pass across a message. Thus they might be depicting various heavenly virtues like love, peace, protection…each time one sees an angel statue, he is bound by the ancient classics of mythological history and civilization.

Within the past week I have completed two embroidery pieces of angels. The patterns were used from a transfer book of angels that can be used for many different art and craft creations.


I also found a beautiful drawing/coloring page of a famous angel/cherub, Raphael, that would look wonderful embroidered as well.


Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520) was a great, late Renaissance Italian artist. Raphael's Cherub is part of his Sistine Chapel murals (in the Vatican) that he painted in the early 1500s.