Warmth

  

The stars and stripes.

Plaids and x patterns 

red white and blue.  

It was the only fabric combinations fitting for a boy...

Of the free fabric... given with love.

Some of this particular fabric was difficult to work with... 

some stretched... some fraying...

Barely enough of one color...

Isn't that how life can be. 

Stretching

mingling..  cording together...

Threading together the unraveling bits of life... 

Stretching out - to meet two pieces together.  

Sometimes you wonder how it all holds together. 

There are 3 quilts now.

Three quilts to keep four bodies warm.

Warmth

Warmth for cold nights

Blistering, blustering cold nights.

It all started one weekend when a carload of fabric arrived home.

Christmas season had just ended.

The fabric was given, 

Old sheets combined with the love offering fabric, 

mingle to create warmth.

So this is the image...

The image of love sewn together.

Love poured out..

Warmth poured out...

Sewn together.

Colossians 3:12-14

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.