Unframed Tapestry

This colorful hand- stitched work created by Great Karungi, Threads of Blessing artist measures 8 x 9.5 inches. Great captures a graceful heron keeping watch in the wetlands. She uses color and stitch direction to create the beautiful patterns that suggest movement in the water and in the adjacent shore of reeds.

Great lives in southern Uganda, in the diocese of Rwenzori, close to the Rwandan border – a particularly beautiful area known as the “Switzerland” of Uganda.  Her life revolves around caring for her family and her crops.

She will use the funds she receives from her needlework to provide education for her children, medical support for herself and her family, seeds or fertilizer for her crops, maintenance and repairs to her home, and provide for any orphans for whom she cares as a result of the war, HIV AIDS or other illnesses.

Great meets weekly with her fellow needleworkers.  The community they have developed through Threads of Blessing encourages each of them and has significantly raised their self-confidence.