Spiritual problem,with a material solution that feels a little spiritual...

My apartment this year is small and ugly. The employer purchased "blanket" is really a duvet. A duvet without a cover, and it's 100 percent scratchy polyester. My skin is sorta sensitive, so I'm going to compare the thing to having bedbugs. That's probably an exaggeration, but I'm not going to apologize for it. It's also really hard to live with a cat in such a small place. She's great but her litter box is not.

I think that my irritation to all things apartment related has something to do with my spiritual condition and the adjustment back to Korea this year. So, like many people, I started looking for a material solution to my spiritual problem, but sometimes in that misguided approach we really do get to experience grace.

The creator is creative and he made us in his own image. My material solution to my problem is that I want to create something beautiful...the sort of thing that my creator does. I'm feeling pretty inspired and I'm convinced that a few handmade, beautiful things in this apartment will nake it more tolerable, if not inviting.

I'm headed to Dongdaemun today (quite possibly a craftster heaven) and I'm looking for supplies to make a duvet cover. I'm inspired by a free Amy Butler pattern (pictured below.) In fact, I was going to follow the instructions to the letter, but then I clicked on a link that was about making flowers out of yarn. I've got a small stash of yarn, but I don't have a fabric stash. I can hardly wait to get started.