I assume that if you are reading this, you love fabric as much as I do...

There is something about that uncut yardage and pieces of scraps that makes the mind spin. What can I do with this? I see visions of quilts, aprons, bags, and all sorts of other things. The patterns, textures, colors, and designs all swirl in a grand invitation – USE ME to make something beautiful! Useful! Pleasing to you or to someone else. But USE ME!

The creative process is borne of things like bolts and roles of fabric. Creativeness is inbred in us...we often try to deny that it exists, saying we are not creative...but we are because we were made in the image of God.

Scriptures start with Genesis- In the beginning God created...and a few chapters later we are told that we are made in God's image. We do not have His power to create with just the spoken Word, but we do work with the creation that He did speak into existence. I often ponder what Adam and Eve did “working” in the garden...the perfect place...they must have rearranged or decorated or something...there were no weeds to pull and they didn't need to gather and store for a rainy day or winter season...so their work had to have been creative, taking the fabric of the world around it and using it to make useful, artful, delightful things to show God just how much they appreciated the glory of what He had given them.

As I look at my overwhelming stash of fabric that has taken over more than one room in my house, I thank God for the creativeness that He has instilled in me, and in you! The ideas I get for creating come out of seeing what others have created...the patterns and books, the designs and techniques...they come from the creativeness of others.

And together we can all rejoice in the Works of His hands, that we may, in this little way, be like HIM.