stitchinglifetogether

Life is a maze and so is this afghan.  Life has big important happenings and events, life has smaller, less exciting events but they blend together.  The little happenings give us much needed relief and rest sometimes from the big, important, and often chaotic events in our lives.  They, like the pieces in this ghan are pieced together to make the whole.

This ghan is pieced from various sized squares and rectangles all initially made from lots of different hands.  A charity group of ladies, who were unable to work with these mismatched pieces, mailed them to me several years back as they disbanded. Their intent was good, they wanted something to be made for charity purposes, but many were so badly sized they couldn’t be used for the specific charities that collect size 6 x 9, or 7 x 10 inch rectangles.    Normally when people make rectangles to join together to make an afghan, they’re joined all going the same direction, they measure the same (give or take maybe ¼ of an inch).  As you can see, I turned these every which way imaginable.  I crocheted additional rows to many to make pieces fit together.  There was no real pattern about how I arranged the variety of colors; I simply used what they had mailed to me. 

So, from many hands this ghan grew into one of my favorites.  I named it, Life’s Maze.  It was sent to a Katrina survivor to give them hope for the future.  Some thought it looked like a stained glass window with a cross in it.  What do you see?