Two Blue Dresses

Spiritual - Did you ever notice that no matter how hard you work on accepting responsibility for your own actions and owning your own faults, we can still  want to blame someone else or something else when we err or fail. It is because of pride.  Adam and Eve did this after their sin and is instinctive for just about everyone who has faults and commits failures.  It takes great courage to look at this self-love head on and to blame only ourselves.  Excusing our faults may satisfy our pride for the moment.  If we are sincerely working at correcting our faults, this will eat away at our soul internally.  Dealing internally with a situation in which we "saved" our pride is not enough.  We must repair the bad example we have set before men, confess it, and accept correction humbly.  Interior and exterior acknowledgment must be there before spiritual advancement will occur.  This is a great cross of mine.

 

Sewing -  A friend of long ago called to order two simple vintage style dresses for two babies she loves.   She wanted blue and needed them "soon!"  The one on the right is a 3-6 mo. dress with a machine embroidered yoke.  The middle of each sleeve was treated the same way.  Lace was added to the neckline, sleeve band and yoke.  A growth tuck was added at the hem.  The one on the left is a 6-9 mo. dress with a tucked yoke and white piping at the yoke and sleeve bands.  Hand embroidery was added to the center of the yoke and on the growth tuck at the hem.  Both are in blue imperial batiste and very simple - just what she requested.

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