TABLE CLOTHES

It is good therapy to get together with Christian ladies and do worthwhile projects.

I decided we needed more table cloths at Sunshine Church for the fellowship room. The old table cloths were too small for the tables and getting a little worn looking.

I approached my friend, Ruth Miller, about making some table cloths. Being the good friend and helper that she is, and also the best seamstress that I know, she agreed we needed new table clothes and would help make the table clothes.

Ruth and I set a day aside to shop for fabric for table clothes. We headed up route 23 to Chillicothe to check out Jo Ann Fabric and Hobby Lobby stores. Being lunchtime we had lunch together and spent some time just sitting and talking like women do at times. We spent some more time shopping for other things that we just could not live without. We did a pretty good job at shopping this day having found several things on sale and even some things half-price. You should have seen Ruth down on the floor going thru the sale items.

The fun for our table cloth project had just begun. We bought candles, napkins, flowers, flower arranging containers and a few other small items. When we started out we were only going to get fabric for table clothes. What's a lady to do when she finds so many things on sale?

God was with us, as always, and guided us right to the fabric department at Hobby Lobby and they had the fabric we needed for our table clothes. Guess what, thirty percent off sale. Just what we needed! We bought fifty yards of this fabric and headed back home.

A few days later we met at the church fellowship room to start cutting the fabric for our table clothes. We needed sixteen round table clothes and we had fifty yards of fabric. Ruth, being the good mathematician, figured the amount of fabric we needed for our table clothes and one yard extra just in case she figured wrong. We cut sixteen table clothes and had one yard left over. She should have been a math teacher instead of a seamstress.

The next day we gathered up our sewing machines and thread and started sewing the table clothes in the fellowship room. We sewed for about two hours on our table clothes. Do you know how much sewing there is to finish sixteen round table clothes? A LOT! We had faith that we could and would finish the table clothes.

About lunchtime, our friend Judi Allison, stopped in to visit and have lunch with us. Over to the airport restaurant we walked to get a little exercise and have lunch. I was telling Judi that it will take us sometime to finish the table clothes but we had faith and we'll get them finished. Hint! Hint!- we really need some help sewing the table clothes and I know she is a good seamstress. Also, I remembered that her husband had bought her a serger for sewing. This is the very piece of equipment we needed to finish the hems on our table clothes and Judi knows how to use this equipment.

After a few days rest, Ruth, Judi and I, got together in my home sunroom to sew on the table clothes. Judi brought her sewing machine and serger and helped us finish the table clothes. If not for Judi we would probably still be sewing on the table clothes. We all had lunch together (chicken noodle soup and Chinese salad) and enjoyed the fellowship together. We all three had faith that we would finish our project and that God was there walking beside us all the way.

Th fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness and FAITH. Galatians 5:22