A QUILT POEM TO SHARE

This is a poem I received from a quilting friend, and thought it was a great one to share on my blog.

I THINK GOD IS A QUILTER

I think God is a quilter

Who takes His needle and thread

To piece our world from nothingness

And give it form , instead.

I think God is a quilter

And everything I see

Are pieces from His careful hand

From tree to bumblebee.

I think we see God's stitches

His texture everywhere;

The velvet moss, the grainy sand,

The silk strands of hair.

I think God is a quilter

Stitching tight and tiny rows,

Adding to my scraps and pieces

Seaming everything He knows.

I think He cuts the patterns

From what I'd throw away.

He shows me how to use each scrap

in His redeeming way.

I think God guilts a pattern

From everything I live;

But He can only stitch the quilt

From what I choose to give.

I think God is a quilter

Stitching strength where I am weak.

Showing me that life He touches

Embraces everything I seek.

I think God is a quilter

From the patience in each thread;

Proving length of time no barrier,

Treating time a gift, instead.

I think guilts are lessons

God uses just to teach

That our pieces and our remnants

Have kaleidoscopic reach.

So, in the life I'm living

With pieces everywhere

I'll give them to the Quilter

To stitch with loving care!

I'll give them to the Quilter

Unwanted though they be

And with His work of quilting

He'll make a quilt of me.

From the book Quilted With Love by Debbie Salter Goodwin

It's almost bedtime, but wanted to post the picture of the sewing tweet block I embroidered out yesterday. There's little items that pertain to sewing & quilting; fabric, thread, needle, scissors, thimble & pins. Embroidery Library is going to be creating and selling a different 'tweet' every week this year, and they are so cute. I am thinking about making a quilt with the different ones that are appropriate for me......like a hobby/journal quilt of my different interests.

Quilt Bee was fun today even though there was only 4 of us; still enjoyed it totally. I worked on my Angel BOM blocks and have 2 of them completed except for the detail work of hand embelishments which will be added after it is together; buttons, halos, hair, faces, ribbons, etc. One of the ladies worked on a new Stack & Whack quilt with gorgeous fabrics and a dark purple batik smeary fabric for her backgrounds. We have decided to meet twice a month for 2009, so some UFO'S can be finished by all of us.