Welcome back to Week 7 of #freemotionfriday! Our video library is growing with these awesome videos, so if you’ve missed any of them be sure to search for them here. Learning each week with you, as we share our faith journey, is such a pleasure. If you’re just beginning your journey, here’s a post to help launch your free motion…
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St. Euphrasia Eluvathingal was an Indian Carmelite nun of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in Kerala, India. She suffered illnesses her entire life – that is until she began to have vision of the Holy Family, at which point the illness she had long suffered ceased. She was canonized as a saint by Pope Francis on November 23,…
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Saint Cecilia a Roman martyr, loved by musicians world-wide as she is the patron of music and musicians. Her story says that, as the musicians played at her wedding, Cecilia “sang in her heart to the Lord”. We celebrate her feast day on November 22nd, a day often accompanied by concerts and musical festivals. Additionally, this extraordinary woman is one…
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Welcome back to Week 6 of #freemotionfriday! Our video library is growing with these awesome videos, so if you’ve missed any of them be sure to search for them here. Learning each week with you, as we share our faith journey, is such a pleasure. If you’re just beginning your journey, here’s a post to help launch your free motion…
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Have you ever come across a pattern online whose overall design captures you, but you don’t love the colors and wonder how it would look in tones that better fit your aesthetic? Or, have you ever wished you could test out color combinations before you begin cutting into your fabrics to make sure your contrasts and balances are where they…
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Welcome to the fifth and *FINAL* week of our Pantone 2021 Challenge – it’s been amazing to journey this month alongside you as we create beautiful works in this year’s Pantone colors! Like you, I’m so very excited to share my final project with you: a modern baby quilt. Didn’t it turn out so so lovely?!? I love how the…
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Welcome back to Week 5 of #freemotionfriday! If you’ve missed any of the prior free motion quilt designs, you can see them here. Learning each week with you, as we share our faith journey, is such a pleasure. If you’re just beginning your journey, here’s a post to help launch your free motion practice this year. This week we’ll…
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Do you have a lot of orphan quilt blocks laying around? Me, too. That’s why I’m going to show you an easy project on how to make a quilt bock into a pillow! Your quilt blocks make the perfect front for custom DIY pillows, already sized to the perfect square. Plus, by creating an envelope pillow, you’ll be able to…
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Welcome back to Week 4 of #freemotionfriday! If you’ve missed any of the prior free motion quilt designs, you can see them here. It’s been so much fun practicing our free motion quilting with you each week; what a journey this has already been! If you’re new and just getting started, here’s the full post to help launch your free…
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Welcome to the fourth week of our Pantone 2021 Challenge, and our next-to-last linkup! I can’t believe next week is the last week and the week we share our final projects. This has been going so fast – and it’s been so much fun to see what you’re all creating. Are you ready for some sneak peeks into the projects…
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St. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and that often means lots of little love letters start showing up in our mailbox from family and friends. I have such fond memories of St. Valentine’s Day from being a child, too – all those little valentines, many with sweet treats or sparkly heart pencils attached! The inspiration for this block…
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I’m excited to join you for *two* fun shares today: the first is the release of Cinzia White’s latest quilt pattern, Dazzling New York Beauty Sampler, and the second is a great little tutorial on how to top stitch curves on your quilt when you don’t have a compass to pencil in those lines. This short video teaches you everything…
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Welcome to the third week of our Pantone 2021 Challenge, and our second official linkup! I hope you’ve enjoyed cutting into (or breaking into, depending on your medium!) your materials. I had so much fun with mine, you guys! I’m making a quilt – no surprise there. The challenge for me this week is two-fold: not only is it a…
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Welcome back to Week 3 of #freemotionfriday! If you’ve missed any of the prior weeks, you can see them here. It’s been so much fun practicing our free motion with you each week; what a journey this has already been! If you’re new and just getting started, here’s the full post to help launch your free motion journey!. This week…
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Welcome to the second week of our Pantone 2021 Challenge, and our first official linkup! I hope you’ve had a chance to spend last week thinking of a project and collecting some lovely materials for your project in these beautiful tones. As for me, I’ve selected these lovely fabrics…I’ve had them in my fabric stash *for years*, so it’s a…
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Are you ready for Week 2 of #freemotionfriday? Last week we created our first free motion design, Wandering, as we wandered about on our practice pad. If you missed the first week and haven’t made your practice pads yet, here’s a great post to get you started. This week we’ll be making a free motion quilt design called “Rome”. I’ve…
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*HAPPY 2021* Here’s to a new beginning, a new start, and a new year full of possibilities and growth. Before we get started, welcome to those of you who are new here at Faith and Fabric. If this is your first time stopping by, hello! I’m so glad to have you here. Faith and Fabric is a Christian quilt pattern…
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Are you ready for Week 1 of #freemotionfriday? I sure am! If you’re new to free motion quilting, don’t worry – you’re in good company. I’m working this year to up my game (which is currently definitely in the minor league!), and invite you to join me for a bit of training, shall we say, each week throughout the year….
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Welcome to the 2021 Pantone Challenge, where artisans share their creativity using their favorite media in this year’s colors. For 2021, Pantone has chosen PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating: a marriage of color conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting. …you guys, after the long year that was 2020, the…
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Have you been enjoying the Hope Quilts blog hop, hosted by Sarah Marcina of The Quilted Diary? There have been so (so) many lovely quilts shared, and – honestly – such beautiful moments of *hope* that everyone has shared. I’ve enjoyed seeing all the inspirational quilts pop up on my screen each day, but the truly special part for me has…
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This has been quite a year, hasn’t it? I doubt any of us expected things to turn out – or to continue – the way they have. Each day the news can feel so tough, yet – each day – we are given the gift of hope. The gift of knowing that this isn’t it, that we are created for…
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