Fearfully & Wonderfully Made

Last year I taught an art class at our church for Children's Ministry. It was so much fun. I took various art mediums and applied them to Kingdom principles. We learned pottery, weaving, painting, drawing and oragomi. Each week and each project would emphasize a Kingdom principle like: we are the clay in the potters hand or we need to allow God to transform us through the renewing of our minds. The weaving really brought me back to an old love of mine that I don't regularly do any more. I wanted to share some things the Lord shared with me about weaving through this class experience.

Here is a picture of my loom. In Psalm 139 the Bible talks about being woven or knitted in your mothers womb. Do you realize all that that means? When starting a project a weaver must first design their project. You take calculations and begin to figure out patterns, color and length/width. You can make anything from a table runner to cloth that will be sewn into a garment. I had a local artisian I apprenticed under who wove an entire suit of silk. It was beautiful.

So now that you have the calculations and design you measure every strand of yarn. Now that might not sound serious but take into the fact that most woven pieces have threads ranging from 100's into the 1,000's. My largest project took over 2,000 strands of yarn.

After you have measured you now thread each one individually following specific patterns. This can take hours up to days worth of work. After you have finished threading you now begin to weave.

See God not only wove you and I but he painstakingly designed & threaded you by His mighty hand. Like I told the children not one project is the same. Each is unique. Think of the time and effort God took to make you. Never doubt how wonderfully you are made. We are part of His awesome workmanship (Eph. 2:10) I know, I am preaching to myself too.:)

There you go just a little lesson about weaving and the Bible. My two favorite subjects. Hopefully by this spring TCC can teach me how to do this Bloggy Giveaway thing and I can give a hand woven table runner or rug away. Do you think some body would sign up for it?

I would love to start a fiber arts guild in the area with weavers, spinners, knitters and such but I don't really think I could squeeze one more thing into my schedule. I am getting the bug to start weaving again and thankfully Rocker is very interested. This would help to have someone encouraging me to weave once more.