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I have had some spiritual awakenings in my recovery, and I wanted to share one of those with you today
I learned many many moons ago how to crochet, but life got in the way, and when I married the alcoholic/addict, well, that was a full-time job trying to straighten him out!
I never even considered crocheting again until I had gotten into recovery and met another gal who made afghans. That once again piqued my interest, and I decided to pursue it again.
My first project was a cream-colored queen sized afghan for my parents. It was very much a labor of love and a way to say thank you for all the years they loved me in spite of the insanity.
When I was finished, of course I knew where every flaw was in that afghan, but when I gave it to my parents, they absolutely loved it.
I got all choked up when my mom told me it was so special that she wanted to be buried with it when she leaves this earth.
I have since made an afghan for both of my daughters, a baby afghan for my nephew when he was born, and I'm finally working on one myself.
I can't tell you exactly when the awakening happened, but I clearly remember one day sitting and crocheting, and I suddenly realized that even though I knew where every flaw in that afghan was, it was still beautiful.
I was always focusing on the flaws, whereas everyone who had seen my worked commented on the beauty.
I realized that yes, we all have flaws, but that is just a small portion of our very human lives, and we are beautiful beings as a whole. My seeing the flaws as opposed to others seeing the beauty was the perfect analogy to truly open up my eyes and begin to accept I will always be imperfect in some ways, but that doesn't take away from the beautiful human being that God created
I thought you might like to see my youngest daughter's afghan that I recently finished, flaws and all!
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OH! It is so beautiful and so is your post! and the dogs seem to love it too!!! Thank u for your dear post this AM. I am a maker also and am so grateful for this in my life. We who make stuff are so lucky!! Your post really got my morning off to a great start. hugs, J.
My home group meets on the Indian Reservation and they have patterns everywhere in their art and archeticture. But in every piece they make they purposely put in a "flaw". Their belief is that no one but HP is perfect or can create anything that is perfect and in respect for HP they build in a flaw. I have never been able to find the flaw, whoever made the piece usually has to point it out to me. They redid the floor in the building where we meet and it is in a traditional Indian pattern and sure enough, there is a flaw. We had a meeting after the meeting where we all stood around looking at the floor trying to find it. Someone finally did but I couldn't find it again today if I tried!
Your blanket is beautiful! What an incredible gift to pass on. I hope to learn how to crochet someday. What a wonderful talent to have!
Beautiful Afghan. My Grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was a kid. Every once in a while I get the urge to make something. All my Grandkids have blankets and my son has a huge one on his bed. As of lately I have been swindled in to making "skullys" for my son and his friends. My son has about 10 of them in all kinds of colors. They only take a 2 hours to make and I can actually finish them..lol
I'm glad something you enjoy gave you the light bulb moment :)
Christy
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