OK...Yes I am thinking about dipping my toe back into the blogging world so thought I'd share this article I just wrote for our church Newsletter. This is for our Handmade 4 Him project which encourages people to craft handmade items to be placed in to the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes we will be packing this November. This is my first project for the boxes for this year. So anyway... here is the article (below) and hope to be back posting more soon!
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Ok… so this month I decided to try sewing this cute little teddy bear from a sock. See I had this pair of navy socks, well they used to be a pair until I accidentally bleached one of them, which turned it brown, causing me to spend the next several months wondering what happened to the other brown sock and the other navy sock…sometimes I’m slow like that. Ha! The thing is I am NOT a seamstress. If you want something crocheted, scrapbooked, drawn, colored, cooked, sung or read..… well then I’m your girl. Sewing? Not so much. When all the other girls were taking Home Ec. In High School and Jr. High I was taking Art and Band. Shocking right?
Ok… so this month I decided to try sewing this cute little teddy bear from a sock. See I had this pair of navy socks, well they used to be a pair until I accidentally bleached one of them, which turned it brown, causing me to spend the next several months wondering what happened to the other brown sock and the other navy sock…sometimes I’m slow like that. Ha! The thing is I am NOT a seamstress. If you want something crocheted, scrapbooked, drawn, colored, cooked, sung or read..… well then I’m your girl. Sewing? Not so much. When all the other girls were taking Home Ec. In High School and Jr. High I was taking Art and Band. Shocking right?
I saw these pictorial instructions on Pinterest and I figured ok… that looks simple enough and so clever, how hard could it be? Well… fast forward to bear making day when I had to repeatedly sew the top seam in the head because I kept finding gaps. Or how I gave him a deformed ear… or the one arm that is longer than the other… or there is the fact that he kind of looks like a cat…. So yes it was more of a challenge than I thought.
Guess what though? Perhaps like the Velveteen Rabbit a little person somewhere across the world will be thrilled to see this little guy in their box. Maybe he will get carried around by his leg until his seams are ratty and all his fur is loved off. Maybe it will be a reminder that Jesus loves them and that we love them too. Maybe it will make them feel special. I hope so, because although my efforts weren’t perfect, he was made with love and that is the important part.
So what are you crafting for the shoe boxes? If you’d like to make more of these sock bears instructions are in the pictures to the left or on the web site here: http://www.mangoandpassionfruit.com/2012/07/test.html
Blessings—Deanna
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