08 August 2007

The Cloud Bolero/Cardigan



I had tried to make a make top called Askew with my Noro Silk Garden, but it didn't come out quite like I have planned. So I took the project apart and had the yarn sitting there for a while. One day I was looking on Knitting Pattern Central and I saw it--the Cloud Bolero! It looked beautiful!! I had to make it with my Noro Silk Garden yarn. The pattern called for a bulky weight yarn, but Silk Garden is a worsted weight. The pattern did say to experiment with different yarns and that I could use an aran(worsted) weight yarn if I wanted too. This made me even more excited. So I took out my size US 11 knitting needles and went to work and out came this very beautiful bolero, actually it is more like a cardigan. I make it a little longer than the pattern called for, I was just being adventurous :) I had to sing at my church last Thursday, so I figured I should wear my beautiful cardigan. I didn't care if anyone noticed it, I loved how it looked on me. I got more comments than I expected from people saying how beautiful it looked. So what do you think?

05 August 2007

Love Covers All Offenses

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up quarrels, but love covers all offenses.~ Sometimes when someone offends us we want to hurt them back instead of showing love. In 1 Corinthians 13:4 it says "Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude." So when someone offends us or the people we are close to (family and friends) what are we to do? If we stay hating them it will only cause fights and quarrels, but love will cover all those offenses. Is that not what God has done for us? His love covered all of our offenses (sin) to Him. Through His death and resurrection we have been made right with Christ and all our offenses have been forgiven. Why should we not forgive the people that offend us when God has done so much for us?