Cathedral Church of Saint Luke in Portland will hold a dedication ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, June 3, for the needlepoint kneelers handcrafted by 13 people belonging to nine parishes around the state.

Participants were: Barbara Michaud, Aroostook County Cluster; Fifi Richards and Lois Rendell, St. Andrews, Newcastle; Barbara Sunderland, St. Savior’s, Bar Harbor; Beatrice White, St. Peter’s, Bridgton; Evelyn Rowland, St. Andrew-St. John, Southwest Harbor; Mary Semler, St. Francis by the Sea, Blue Hill; the Rev. Betty Gilmore and Gertrude Warnoch, Trinity Church, Portland; Barbara Longest, St. Peters by the Sea, Cape Neddick; Isobel Devitt, St. Martin’s in the Field, Biddeford Pool; Dody Gates and Paget Higgins, St. James Chapel, Prouts Neck.

Stitchers from St. Luke’s Kneeler Guild were: Allison Dale, Elsa Dalheim, Joe Edgar, the Rev. Richard Ellis, Barbara Hall, Jane Irwin, Barbara Michaud, Martha Roediger and Lee Webster.

A reception will be held after the ceremony in the Bishop’s Garden.

It takes about 500 hours to complete a kneeler, which has 57,000 stitches and uses 750 yards of wool, the press release said. Each kneeler’s design is unique to the church or stitcher it represents.