Handmade Birth Flag

Yesterday I got together with some girlfriends to craft for a couple hours. We all made "flags" for a mutual friend who is pregnant- The idea being that she can look at the flags when in a time of challenge (such as birth) and feel the support and love from her friends. For my birth a bunch of friends did something similar for me. The labor went too fast to think of getting out the art to look at during, but after the birth we set up all the little paintings around our recovery room. All of the nurses kept telling us they just wanted to hang out in our room it felt so nice!

I started out thinking I would hand stitch the whole flag in an intricate pattern, but, quickly moved onto the wondrous glue-gun (an impatient or time-crunched girl's savior!) It was great to get together with friends and create something, even if it was small. Maybe I should initiate this stitch-and-bitch sort of thing more often. That would be one more avenue for motivation...