Quilt Scraps

Here is what I love about quilting.  I love scraps. I love making something from nothing.  I love taking a piece of fabric that has been discarded and joining it with others to make something beautiful.  I am not great at picking colors that 'go' together and my seams often do not meet where they are suppose to but I love the scrappy look of many different materials working for a greater good.  Often I am given started projects from others who have never had the chance to complete their work.  I love to finish them.  I have given that quilt a life it may not have had otherwise.  I have completed a project for someone else who didn't get the chance.  I feel useful and this quilt now has a purpose.   As I work on it I think about how many times this quilt will give comfort to someone sick in it's life.  Or maybe used as a playmat for generations.  These are nice thoughts for me.  How symbolic of our unfullfilled lives and how God breaths into our scraps and makes us useful and beautiful.  He finishes the job we can not do on our own.