Thread by @AudunOppsann

In honor of the great, abdicated Queen Margrethe of Denmark, let's rate some of her chasubles.

The queen made her first chasuble in 1976 and has made around 20 in the years since.

I must admit I'm not a huge fan of this quilting technique. It just looks like a blanket. The queen says she made it extra colorful,so that anyone who thought it was too much could take comfort in the fact that they wouldn't see it again for a long time (red used 2x a year). 3/10

Not the most exciting design. I guess I like how the cross is subsumed into rays of light, vanishing into the divine light of salvation. Otoh, is that really adequate? Doesn't the cross grow into paradise, becoming once again the tree of life? 5/10

I like how it looks like the celebrant has been stabbed 5x in the back, bleeding out while offering up the bloodless sacrifice, reminding us how the lamb of God was pierced fivefold for our iniquities. 6/10

It's cool how the pelican seems to be regurgitating its blood straight into the chalice. The bloodied cross-tree made up of golden strings is not 100% successful imo. The color palette is also weird, it's giving all-weather-jacket. 5/10

Wow. The ship of Denmark, bravely endeavoring across the sinful seas of the world, a higher unity of church and state where the cross of Crist is also the flag of the land. THIS is the kind of chasuble you want a reigning monarch to make. 8/10

I guess this is the one that coincides most with my personal aesthetic. The cross-stitching depicts scenes from the life of the church: Preaching, baptism, communion, funeral and wedding. (I kinda love the extreme Scandinavian Lutheran-ness in the choice of depictions). 7/10

I mean. I MEAN. Extremely funny that the queen has bestowed this madness upon the notoriously liturgically uptight Church of Denmark. This is camp. It is meet and right. This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. 10/10