Unfinished Projects

There is a room in my house that I have named the Room of Unfinished Projects. It is really my sewing/craft room, probably my favorite room in my house. I have spent the last three days working to finish some of these unfinished projects...I really had no idea how many there were. I kept uncovering more and more as the days went on.

As I sat working on my unfinished projects I felt right at home among them...because I too am an unfinished project! I am not a completed masterpiece framed and hanging on the wall. I am not a marble sculpture on display. I am not an intricate tapestry bound and viewed by the public. I am much like the unfinished projects in my sewing room...works in progress. Sometimes they don't look like much to anyone else but their creator...but the creator knows what it will become! And the artist sees the completed work of art already on the blank canvas!

We're the clay and you're our potter: All of us are what you made us.

(Isaiah 64:8)

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (Psalm 139:11)

So, I am a work in progress but I have confidence in the Artist that the end result will be so much more then I could have ever imagined. For now I will continue to spend time in my Room of Unfinished Projects and remember that I too am unfinished!

P.S. I am happy to say there are now a some finished projects in the room!

(Here are just a few...)

I started this quilt as an illustration for a Women's retreat I spoke at 2 years ago...needless to say I went in another direction!

This Valentine's quilt I started just this past February...I came close to finishing it on time but really I think lost interest.

I have been moving this one around for 6 years...yes 6! I made (and finished) one just like this for my mom and just never got around to finishing mine...kinda sad because it only took an hour to finish!

This is the smaller of two scrappy flags that like the Christmas quilt have been moving from place to place unfinished for over 6 years...