This past weekend, I taught a beginning quilt-making class. I had forgotten how much I love encouraging others to create beauty. The most exciting part was seeing all the new sewists who showed up wanting to learn something new. A few had some experience, while others had never sat in front of a machine before….
Category: Create Beauty
A Patchwork Life
Life Has Changed Life has undergone considerable changes over the past couple of years. Jayme started school, and we are very proud of how she is doing. With a void at home and desperate for friends in our new community in Oklahoma, I answered a Facebook invitation to sew at a local church. My decision…
Love Mode Religion
Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world. James 1:27 This week, while we are out of town, my daughter’s doctor scheduled surgery for her. We could not return in time to help, but the sewing…
Grow Beauty and Flourish
The love of gardening is a seed sown that never dies. Gertrud Jekyll While Little June slept the morning away, we moved scraggly, overgrown mums from our window boxes, and planted zinnias and alyssum in their place. I’m not sure if zinnias were the best choice for the boxes, but it was all the garden…
Knit One, Purl Two
I have knitted several cocoons for some babies who will make their way into the world this spring. It has been such a pleasure weaving yarn together to create something beautiful. I love the process of knitting. It satisfies my artistic soul. Often as I work along, I stop to check the progress of my…
Woo Hoo!
Well, this just happened. The devotional study journal, Legacy: Living NOW for Future Generations, I co-authored with three other great Bible teachers (Beckie Lindsey, Nancy Franklin, and Marie Martinat) has been selected as a finalist for the Selah Award. It is humbling and exciting at the same time to be considered for this honor. The…
Peace and Great Joy
I am sometimes the worst . . . when it comes to completing projects. Oh, I start out well but find myself petering out towards the end. Not so with a Christmas tree quilt made I this year. It all started about eighteen months ago when my husband and I traveled up to Hamilton, Missouri…
A Harvest of Beauty
A friend of mine is moving and part of the process is deciding what is going and what is going if you know what I mean. Denice decided that her stash of fabric had to go, and I became the lucky recipient. Score! When Denice bought the fabric, she fully intended to use it…
The Upcycled Life
I have spent the better part of a week painting objects found at the thrift store, alongside the road, and tucked inside of barns and storage sheds. No longer wanted or needed by their owners, these things have been cast-off and forgotten. But Susan, a volunteer at Liebenzell USA, saw their potential. She has taken…
Building Hope Together
The sound of women’s laughter sang in harmony with the whirl of their sewing machines. At the end of the day, they would go home with a beautiful quilt top they had created with their own hands. But as wonderful as the new creations were, something much more had taken place. You see, these women…