Sunday Pics!

Time for Sunday Pics!

Last week's photo really struck a chord with so many.  The need and desire to create is strong in us. And the joy of having a loved one appreciate what we do is just as strong.

From the time I was a little girl, my hands were always finding things to make for my loved ones.  In my later years, I've come to understand this as part of my being made in God's image.  He created.  He gave us the ability to create.  And it runs strong.

When I was a young wife and mom, and "me" time was scarce, the thing I longed for was the time to create. Naptimes were devoted not to dishes and cleaning, but to sewing and crafting. When I had that outlet, it was easier to meet my responsibilities with cheerfulness and joy. And so it remains.

I love this picture of an Appalachian woman with her quilts who experienced the same things I did. Hear her words: 

“I’d rather piece as eat and I’d rather patch as piece, but I take natcherally delight in quiltin’. I’m an old woman, honey, and I tell ye, a woman can do her work better ef she has something pretty to her hand to take up whenst she air plumb worried out....."

If you look closely, you can see quilts on the three beds and then stacks of them behind the hanging petticoats.  It looks to me as if she "took up" her pretty work often.  I think we need to do the same.

Her story is magnificent and you can read it at AppalachianHistory.

The story is taken from “Patch Quilts and Philosophy,” by Elizabeth Daingerfield 1908