I have a lot of daydreams about what I’d love to do in the realm of crafts. Some dreams are about crafts I would love to try if I had the time. Some are dreams about crafts that look beautiful when others do them but I know I have no talent in that area. Other dreams are about crafts I’ve tried but didn’t seem able to handle. Actually, those weren’t dreams, those were usually nightmares. I have unhappy projects scattered in bags and boxes and containers all over this place. Some half-finished with no hope of ever being finished, others finished but not looking anything like the photo or diagram on the instructions claimed they should look.
Of the crafts I would like to try, one is quilling. Not quilting. Quilling is rolling narrow strips of special paper around a tool like a pencil’s shaft, then gluing the little coiled shapes to form a three-dimensional picture. I even have a starter kit here somewhere. Some day, I will try it.
Another is the knitting machine. I knitted for about 10 or 20 years, off and on, during my youth, but was never good at it. Two needles were beyond my abilities. I ended up with lumpy, very un-smooth pieces of work. But a knitting machine, ah, there’s a grand idea!
Through the years I have found which crafts I am good at and which I am not. It’s a practical and honest assessment of my skills. Still, when I look at some crafts, and know I cannot do them, my admiration for that work is mixed with sadness.
Dear Lord, thank you for my abilities, and help me to stop yearning to do that which I cannot do.
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