Do With All Your Might

My stitches are not pretty, rarely are they straight.
Sometimes pattern pieces don't match up because I cut them wrong.
Nobody will like that because of all the mistakes I made.

Negativity. When it gets to rolling around in my head, it has a giant snowball effect. It keeps getting bigger and bigger and it seems like I can't do anything to stop it. It tells me that my creations are not good enough. That I'm not skilled with my hands. That I'm not good enough.

I've been struggling with this for a week or so after I made a bib for Jake and didn't like how it turned out. A special person told me that the mistakes are only visible to my eyes and that I should be proud of the things I create. Once I let that sink in a few days, I sat back down at my sewing machine and made four more bibs and tried a new project. Let's just say there were still mistakes but I'm not focusing on that. I made something for my little peanut. That's awesome!!

Ecclesiastes 9:10 "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might..."
This verse helps me find the beauty in my mistakes. It tells me not to care about the crooked, uneven stitches. You don't have to be a perfectionist, just find something you love doing and give it your all. Appreciate your talent. Know you are good enough.