2025 OneThing #48 - Make "Abide" Word

I've had the fabrics picked out for several months, but struggled with how to make the word look vine-ish. I finally cut out the letters and have decided to add more vine looks with stitching. This will be my final "one word" (I believe). Though I've enjoyed this process, I'm ready to move on. 

With this word, I have a total of twelve. I started during the 2014-15 school year with "Listen." That was followed by joy, hope, trust, love, choose, humility, grace, shine, selflessness, simplify, and now abide. 

 

My theme Scripture is John 15:4-5. "Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." 

 

There are also the verses in Galatians 2:20 and John 15:1-8.

 

So far, I've cut out the letters, used some double-sided fusible stuff, and ironed it all together. I'll use a kelly green thread to stitch the outlines and then do some needlework with thicker green threads (probably on our next lake trip, since that's where my crazy quilting stuff is). I haven't decided what I'll do for / with the open spaces in the A, b, d, and e. One thing at a time, right?

Galatians 2:20, John 15:1-8