SEWING ROOM WORK PROGRESSES

The girls are busy working away on the sewing machines and crocheting. They are now finally getting it down to a science and are completing projects to sell. We have sold some items to the visiting mission groups and the ladies were thrilled to receive the money. Every Monday and Wednesday morning the sewing shop is filled with laughter, chatting and singing along with the worship songs played on the CD player. It’s a wonderful atmosphere to fellowship and work together.
I’m trying to incorporate my love of quilting into the bags and patchwork baby quilts. Next week we hope to put the 3 layers together and finish their first quilts off. I don’t have any pictures yet of them but soon will. When my friend Cheryl came to visit she was able to work with a few girls making the baby quilts. As you can see the machines we use are all donated and not new by any stretch....but at least they work! The challenging part is trying to figure out when things go wrong how to fix all these different machines.
God has been good and faithful enabling me to communicate with these ladies in my limited Spanish....but as we say here “cada dia poco a poco” each day little by little, I learn more. My second level of language training is finished and the fear of reaching out and talking to locals has diminished greatly. Know a little, use it a lot is the best way to learn...even at age 47!
On Friday five of us ladies are planning a girl’s day out to Santiago to look for more supplies. It’s about 1 ½ hours away and over a mountain range so it’s not something we do often. The road is very twisted and winding with the occasional washed out section so it is only good for daytime travel. We hope to leave early in the morning to allow plenty of shopping time and return by suppertime if we don’t get distracted along the way. You know..5 women....shopping....lot’s of fun... a welcome break for us all from our daily routines.