African Love Quilt

1 Corinthians 13 (ESV)

The Way of Love

13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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Aren't those words so exquisitely beautiful - the greatest love poem in the world!

The idea for this quilt emerged today at about 10o'clock. I could not get to start it until about 2 PM. And then it just did not seem to gel in my mind, It seemed slow in coming- partly because I was nursing a two day old sinus/migraine. So it really came together as I went along. Also, I had lost my 'print onto material' paper so I had to go and get some more. I landed up buying, washing, drying and ironing more material for the quilt too. Then I had a catastrophe of not knowing the new paper very well and I accidentally ironing the writing directly into a smudge, so had to start again. Any way despite all this I finished at 1 ish in the morning, and I am very pleased it will be done and ready for giving at the wedding we will attend tomorrow. The couple have been working in Sudan and have come 'home' for the Wedding, hence the African theme.

The boys are really pleased as the couple have said we can wear anything we wish to wear, "jeans will be warmly smiled upon!".

We are not meant to be giving gifts, so this quilt will have to be called a glorified wedding card! Will have to make an envelope for it in the morning!
Nighty nights!