After putting in roughly 50 hours of knitting time, it took an additional hour to sew it onto the tree. It would have taken less time if I had used one color to stitch up the seam, but I thought that would look tacky. So I taught Kristi how to sew, and we stitched up that cozy. All seven feet of it. When we finished it, we stood back to admire the work. And then we named her Eloise.
We walked around a bit to admire the other 98 trees. I was amazed at how not a single one looked alike. We were limited to "stripes" but could interpret that how we wanted. We were also limited to four colors, but some chose to leave one or two out.
As we walked around, I couldn't help but think about how this weird situation must be something like the Kingdom of God (I'm a seminary student, that's what I do). And I'm not joking when I say it was a weird situation. We all knit sweaters for trees. Sweaters. For trees. And then we all got together at the same time to clothe our trees with their new apparel. As we all wondered around, admiring each others work and complementing each other, I thought, "Yeah, I hope the Kingdom is like this." Weird people in a weird place, loving on each other. Glad I got a wee taste of it here and now.
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Can't wait to see 'em!
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