Fabrics Used: Riley Blake This block may be called patience, but it sure didn’t take patience to complete it! This was a fussy dream to cut, as the nice wide blocks gave me lots of room to play. I chose a theme of just two primary colors – pink and tan. That’s one of the things I love about this…
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Stash Builder Box: Challenge #2
Really excited to join in Stash Builder Box’s Challenge #2 as an Ambassadors in Waiting! This month’s stash challenge was to make lovely book blocks for a charity quilt; as an avid reader, I was more than happy to jump in. The challenge box came with four really neat items packed into the reusable printed bag: 1/2 yard of fabric from…
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Mighty Lucky Quilting Challenge: Sashiko Stitching
Just a quick post today…working through this month’s Mighty Lucky challenge, focused on sashiko stitching, a style of geometric repeating patterns. I had a bit of white fabric left over from a recent project, so used this as the base for my 5″x5″ square. The thread, from Sulky, is an amazing blue-to-white variegated one – don’t you love how the…
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Shades of Gray: Farmer’s Wife Block 40 Grandmother
Block Completed: February 26, 2017 Fabrics Used: on-hand stash Grandmother. I’ve been blessed to have known both my grandmothers; one passed away when I was in college, and the other passed away last month. It’s been interesting to see both my mother and mother-in-law become grandmothers; it’s a completely different role than being “mom”. Here’s to all the mothers, grandmothers, and Godmothers…
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Blog Evolution and Design
Change is an inevitable part of life, and so is the natural growth that comes with time. For me – specifically as it relates to my quilting and blogging journey – there has been so much growth and change! I started blogging in early 2013; I had just started staying home with my son after taking a hiatus from the…
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Charity Quilt: The Emperor’s Garden Block 2
Block 2, for February, is all done! This is such a unique fabric line…I’m really starting to enjoy working with it. In creating this Double Edged Star (pattern by Amy Garro), I really wanted to create a block focused around the black butterfly fabric. It has such a deep black background, and the butterflies appear to, well, fly! I *had*…
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Designing A Quilting Studio
Hello, and welcome to Faith and Fabric! I’m Jen Frost, and am *so* happy to invite you into my newly-redesigned sewing space. Like you, there are so many different ways to reorganize and design your quilting room, and I’m looking forward to sharing my remodel with you here today. We’ve long had a guest room that was used several…
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Under the Sea: Farmer’s Wife Block 67 Mrs Brown
Fabrics Used: Riley Blake, scraps I love the Mrs. blocks – it reminds me of when I got married! I practiced writing “Mrs. Frost” so many times – it was all about getting that “F” *just* right! I’ll never forget the first time he introduced me as his wife…to be honest, it still makes me a bit giddy when he…
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Pattern: For the Birds (Bird House Quilt)
Once in a while, inspiration for a new pattern comes from a most unlikely source! A few months ago, my online friend Sara (@thekeenbean) shared these adorable birdhouse paintings that she made. I loved them, and immediately thought about how cute they would be as a birdhouse quilt! It was a wonderful opportunity to spend time in EQ7; this…
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Under the Sea: Farmer’s Wife Block 76 Nancy
Fabrics Used: Riley Blake This block looks deceivingly simple – but oh, my, there were so many small pieces! I played up some of the shapes, as the spaces were so small. The green flowers have this great circle center, so I cut the circle to frame the mermaid four times (it kind of looks like the bubbles in some…
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Under the Sea: Farmer’s Wife Block 47 Joy
Fabrics Used: Riley Blake + on hand stash I’ve been making good (as you’ve probably noticed!) on getting more blocks done. It almost feels like the start of the quilt a long, when we were making two or three per week! Not sure how long I’ll continue at this pace, but riding the tide (which seems so appropriate in an…
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Pattern: Sand Crabs (Feeling Crabby) Quilt Pattern
It’s long been known in my family that I don’t do mornings. For the record, neither does my brother. I blame genetics. Back when I was still growing up (and before I had found the joy of coffee), my parents would announce, “Watch out, the crab is awake!” when I came down the stairs each morning. Recently, my husband made…
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Under the Sea: Farmer’s Wife Block 10 Ava
Fabrics Used: Riley Blake, unknown scraps Catch-up share…Ava was an exercise in fussy cutting directionality! To assemble the corner pieces, you set two small triangles on the sides of a square, and then turned that into half of the triangle. This block turned out lovely, and gave me a chance to use up some scrap pieces that were floating around…
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TGIFF: Finished Pillow
Welcome to this week’s edition of TGIFF! I’m happy to host this week, *and* to share a project that sat unfinished for over a year…you’ve been there, too, right? I made these two 12″ blocks as part of the Mighty Lucky Monthly Challenge last year, and they’ve sat around since then. I had no use for them; they’re so stylistically…
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Shades of Gray: Farmer’s Wife Block 37 Georgia
Block Completed: January 23, 2017 Fabrics Used: on-hand stash Tiny. Teeny tiny, in fact. That’s the only way to describe this block; the majority of the block is made from 25 1″x1″ squares (and that’s not evening mentioning the HSTs!). For me, this block was just ok. The striped gray ended up a bit darker and provides less contrast than I was…
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