Crafting Therapy

The past seven years or so have taught me something important--crafting is a form of therapy for me. Whenever I am feeling clouded or stifled or bored with my life, creating something with my hands breaks me out of a funk. I started learning how to really sew and cook and crochet and whatever else when we couldn't get pregnant, just to fill the creative void that overwhelmed me. Now I have all these hobbies that are dear to me that I have no time for. When I can squeeze some craft time in, though, it refreshes me so much. Here are a few recent projects:

 I made this quilt for my dear friend Karly (and her new baby, Jimmy). I love to make complicated quilts like the kaleidoscope one I made for Hudson, but I also love simple projects that turn out lovely but don't take 20 hours to make. Enter in half square triangles. I love the chevron pattern, like this quilt for Jimmy, and the herringbone pattern, like the quilt I made below for Kyle and Liz Fisher's new baby Nora.

 It was so much fun taking this quilt to Liz's over the top darling shower. I made it the colors of her nursery and she loved it. :)

 There's just something that can't be beat about sewing, though. Making clothes that I can dress Emme in and then photograph her just makes me giddy. I love it. I meant to have these dresses done for Easter, but it wasn't until a few weeks after that I had them completed.

Emme adores this dress and wants to wear it every Sunday. She points at it hanging in her closet and talks about her "purple bunny dress." I have made plenty of things for her that she didn't give a fig about, and so it's fun when she really likes something I make.

I'm so grateful for all of life's little adventures and the opportunity to learn and create new things.