For several years, it has been my habit to make Christmas sweat shirts for the women in my family to wear. (Well, at least for my sister, my niece, and me to wear.) This year, it will be my niece, her mother-in-love, and I who will have shirts alike to wear to the city Christmas parade or to wear shopping when it is cold. We have always tried to be sure that those shirts portrayed the meaning of the season.
Because I do have a sewing machine that will embroider this year, our shirts will have machine embroidery rather than being done by hand by me as I have done before. And so, my niece and I have been shopping via the computer to find the "right" design. It had to be "just right" to please my niece who was very specific about the design.
Now, after two weeks of finding and posting back and forth, we have a design.
I hope that I have it large enough that you can easily read it and see the differences in the colors of gold that show the baby as different from the manger and straw and can see the differences that separate the letters of J O Y from the rays of the light of the star.
I do think that the various golds and cream threads wil be beautiful against the deep blue of the shirt and I hope that all who see us wearing the shirts will acknowledge the "reason for the season."
