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| Batik Quilt |
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| Gym bag and yoga mat bag |
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)
I’ve been doing a lot more sewing lately. Not only am I working on Christmas gifts, but I am preparing some items to donate to the Sunday School class auction. I want to make a lot of things because I am feeling guilty about missing the auction this year. I leave that same day for a mission trip (to a place I can’t mention here but that is not the usual place I go and is not a place that welcomes missionaries. I am excited about the opportunity and will cross something off my “bucket list”). Because the proceeds from the auction help to support my mission trip “habit”, I feel like I need to do my part in making it a success. I have already made a batik quilt, a diaper bag, baby quilt and bib set and a gym bag and yoga mat bag set. I have plans to make two more diaper bag, baby quilt and bib sets and possibility some quilted purses. I am also thinking about a gift certificate to help someone write a book about their life. Don’t you think someone would pay big bucks for my services? (She writes laughing). So, I have been spending every free moment (when I am not writing Caroline’s Story) sewing. I think my favorite part of the work is the design stage. I love picking out the material, matching (or in some cases, not matching) colors and laying out the project. I see one thing and springboard off that concept to another one. For example, I saw the design and materials for the batik quilt at Wal-Mart. It came out so pretty that now, I have two more batik quilts cut out in different designs and ready to sew. The design work is definitely the most appealing to me. I have way more fabric and ideas than I can use for a long time. Unless I take a month off work and sew nonstop. What I don’t like is cutting it out, pinning it together and doing the finishing work. Then, my hands hurt, my back aches and I keep thinking of everything else I could be doing! I also don’t like seeing the growing pile of projects all bagged and labeled. It worries me to see so much undone. I want to knock it all off my to do list. Which I have and which grows longer and longer the more trips to the fabric store I make. I have got to quit going to the fabric store! All this thought about design made me think about how I was designed by God. He created me for a specific purpose and delighted in that creation. Sometimes I chaff under His leadership thinking what he calls me to do is not pleasurable. I would rather do other things. But, He has given me everything I need to do the work He calls me to do. And created me for it. It’s just my job to do it.
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