The Girls

This is a picture of our quilting heritage, 4 generations and my aunt (2nd left).  We are each holding a quilt that we have done our self.  Starting at the left....Grannie Carathers (Mildred Waldean McPeak Carathers), RuthAnn Rochelle Carathers (Uncle Gene's wife), my mother (Frances Elizabeth Carathers Lewis), me (Deborah Gene Lewis Boutwell), and my daughter (Sally Marie Boutwell).

Our hands....Sally, Grannie, Mother, me.

I love that these hands work with thread and hold each other up in prayer.

I think everyone has made the comment that while we work on an item, 

we thank about the person that the item is being made for and while

we work our needle...prayers are being said over that person.

Mother made a blanket for a young boy that was having seizures.  When she presented the blanket to him, she told him that she had been praying for his full recovery.  His mother said that he uses the blanket always....and hasn't had a seizure since!  Recently she did a baby quilt for a little one that was very small and had a few issues before delivery.  She asked a group of us to prayer over the blanket before we gave it to the mother.  As each person prayed, they were focused on the immediate issues...but God led me to pray about the time that she would be using the blanket as a young girl (since it was a large blanket), reading her Bible under it as a young teenager and picnics that she would go on and wrapping her daughter in one day.

Each needle prick...each stitch...each thread....a prayer.