I decided to teach myself how to embroider. I’m one of those people (I think they’re called women) who can’t just sit in front of the TV (watching The Office and Lost) and not do anything else. I constantly need to have my hands working on something. In the past I’ve decimated my eyebrows with over plucking, but they’re good now, so I need something else to do. Multitasking, ya know? So, I watched a few videos on how to do different stitches on YouTube (Did you know there are craft lessons on there? Awesome!), bought a hoop at the Goodwill and got to work.
Sorry the photo isn’t the best. I was working on this after dark, so no natural light to go with. I really need to build a lightbox one of these days. For this project, I opened up a Word document, typed “Love wins.” in and then changed the font until I found one I liked. All I had to do was size it to fit in my hoop, print it off and trace the letters onto the cloth with a water soluble seamstress pencil. From there, I just did back stitching and few French knots to dot the “i” and period. I started off with one row of back stitches, but decided to fill it in a little more with some more rows. I like that it looks chunky.
However, when Matthew came home from class, he looked at it and said, “Love wine?” I suppose looking at it really quickly, you could see an “e” instead of an “s” on wins. Since we don’t drink, he was kind of confused as to why I would embroider that. Next time I’ll work on making the distinction between the two a little more obvious.
I really like that phrase “Love wins.” In the Bible, God tells us hundreds of times of His love for us and how we are to love others. Two of my favorites:
Book of John, Chapter 3, Verse16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”
Here’s a different version of that same verse: “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.”
Book of Luke, Chapter 10, Verse 27 The man answered, ” `You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And, `Love your neighbor as yourself.’ “
Love wins.
