Knitting and weaving creation

Psalms 139 and 140: My friends and acquaintances know I am a sewer, a quilter, and at times, a knitter. (You can check out my quilting blog on the link in the sidebar at right.) Today's reading of Psalm 139 appeals to my needleworking side. God is celebrated as the creator of the psalmist, and those creative acts are compared to knitting and weaving, often traditional crafting activities of women throughout the generations. "For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother's womb." 139: 13. The literalist side of me pictures God inside a woman's uterus with a pair of knitting needles and several skeins of yarn. Later on, there's a weaving image: "My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth." In these images, God is creator as God forms humans from before birth, and mothers are co-creators with God as they shelter the unborn baby within. This is a familiar psalm, sometimes used by women to create better body images, and one with lots of poetic devices. It also speaks to me as a creative person, someone who takes a sewing needle or knitting needle to make something out of nothing. Many time, people who aren't quilters will look at my quilts and say "oh, what a lot of work!" I don't take that as a compliment necessarily (sometimes I hear the subtext as "I couldn't be bothered with something so finicky") but the creative act is a lot of work. If we take the psalmist's images to heart here, each person in creation has been "fearfully and wonderfully made" by God, working away at the metaphorical knitting needles or loom to get each person just right.
A quick comment on Psalm 140, which contains this thoughts about how the wicked should be treated: "Let burning coals fall on them!" This thought contrasts to what Jesus later said about loving our enemies.