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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Pantone 2021 Artisan Challenge: Week 2 (Materials) Linkup
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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Free Motion Quilting Design: Rome
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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2021 Monthly Color Challenge: Eggplant in January
*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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Free Motion Quilting Design: Wandering
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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Pantone 2021 Artisan Challenge: January 1-29
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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Quilt Block: Open Door Chapel
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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Blog Hop: Hope Quilts
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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2021 Quilt Along and Sew Alongs List
VIEW THE NEW UPDATED 2022 LIST HERE! The new year is just two weeks away, and that means that a whole host of new quilt-alongs (and sew-alongs) are about to begin! Last year, I wrote a post about the quilt alongs happening for the upcoming year, and y’all loved it so much! So, the list is back and there…
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Blog Hop: I Spy Quilt Pattern
This past week I had *so* much fun doing some sewing for myself! This past year, I’ve been – in addition to sewing – redoing the entire interior of our camper. I’m not sure who is on the interior design team for these things, but it’s like a pile of brown-on-brown-on-brown…ugh. So, over the course of four months, I repainted…
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Tutorial: How to Make a Free Motion Quilting Practice Pad
So let’s get ready for Free Motion Friday, shall we? In order to practice our free motion quilting, we’ll need something to practice on: a practice pad. There are multiple ways to make a practice pad, but here’s how I’m making mine. You see, I hate wasting anything – so, I’m creating my blocks using a quilt-as-you-go method so that…
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Welcome to Free Motion Friday!
Are you ready for some free motion quilting practice time? I sure am…and I hope you’re up for joining me most Friday’s over on YouTube as we practice our free motion quilting together! I’ll be sharing my doodles, ideas, tips, and tricks – as well as my ripped out seams, mistakes, and learnings – and invite you to learn along. …
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Living Liturgically this Advent: Catholic Mom Bundle 2020
I have a reputation in my house for being a not-so-distant relative of the Grinch when it Christmas rolls around. For me, the season of Advent gets so overshadowed with shopping, baking, cooking, decorating, partying, and every other -ing, that – come Christmas – I’m ready for it to be over. Bah-humbug. A few years ago, I made the…
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TGIFF: Every Quilt Tells a Story
Welcome to TGIFF at Faith and Fabric! My name is Jen Frost, and I’m a Christian quilt pattern and fabric designer. I’m so glad to have you here! So, let’s talk about quilts. My first real experience with quilting was about 15 years ago through my mother-in-law. Recently retired, she took up quilting as both a hobby and a way…
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Just My Type Fabrics by Tamarinis
One lovely benefit of the pandemic, and its “stay at home” order, is that I’ve had the opportunity to connect with some really great quilters through a ton of fun quilt-alongs and activities that have popped up. Tammy, of Tamarinis, is one of those amazing people – she’s not only a talented pattern designer, but has a new fabric line…
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