I made both hat and rug out of remnants of yarn. The idea came to me after finishing a hat and having pieces of yarn that were left over but not big enough to make anything with it. I hate waste, so I started tying the left over pieces together. It did not matter what color the yarn was, just that the pieces were long enough to tie together. As I tied the yarn together, there were a few things from the Bible that kept going through my mind. Joseph’s coat of many colors for one. Then the story of Gideon and his fleece. Finally the scriptures about the remnant of Israel.
Once I had enough yarn tied together I began making hats. They were shaggy and there was no pattern in the choice of colors, and I did not cut off the ends so the hats have a shaggy look. These imperfect looking hats may not be what the average person would like or would even wear, but I like them. Especially when I thought about the wide range of colors that had been joined together. These remnants that when joined together have a purpose. Together they were first turned into hats, and then a small rug. The rug I like to use as a prayer rug to remind myself of Gideon and of how all the prayers joined together have purpose and power when in alignment of God’s love. Joined together as one, one body, functioning together even though each piece is different and came from different skeins, they create these fun, and colorful reminders of the beauty of God’s love. We are one body made of many different parts. Joined together in love.
Every hat that I have made whether it was for a buyer or for a gift has been prayed over with every stitch as I crocheted them. Probably why the idea of making them from remnants came from. Hats being a covering for the head, which made me think of the helmet of salvation. Then wanting the mind of Christ. Most important is the need for people to come to understand the need for truly being joined together in love. Not what the world considers love to be, but the love of Jesus. The love that is not just for those who love us, but to love those who even hate us. The love you have to have to lay your life down to save another. In 1 Corinthian 13 is the perfect description of love. There are a couple of things that are on my mind from this chapter; Love does not demand its’ own way and it is not easily offended. Yet as I look around the world today I see so many demanding their way and are so easily offended. So where is LOVE? Where is unity? Where is peace? There are so many topics that looking at this hat and rug that come to mind. Like Gideon I may be the least of the least, but together with Christ Jesus I have purpose and I have His love. I still have so much to learn from His love, but I will spend the rest of my time on this earth learning.
Isaiah 37:4
Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
2 Chronicles 34:9
They came to Hilkiah the high priest and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the doorkeepers, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
2 Kings 21:14
I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;
Genesis 37:3 KJV
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors. (Read chapter)
Judges 6:36-40 NKJV /The Sign of the Fleece
36 So Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel by my hand as You have said— 37 look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said.” 38 And it was so. When he rose early the next morning and squeezed the fleece together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.” 40 And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground.
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