“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is one of my mom’s favorite hymns, and “It Is Well (With My Soul)” is another family favorite. Fabric and Notions Classes & Events All Access Quilting Designs Contact Us Newsletters Fabric > Songbook A New Page Unbleached 45550 11 Panel. Together, my mom, my aunt, and my two uncles made up a perfect 4-part quartet, so anytime we were all together, they would sing and my grandmother would play the piano. On Easter Sundays, my aunt usually lent her beautiful soprano voice to the choir for the Hallelujah Chorus. My grandmother was a talented pianist and the church choir director for many, many years, and whenever I spent childhood summers with all my grandparents in Alabama, I’d tag along to choir practice with her. Bug Bug Bug: Cloth Book Panel (1 yard) - Henry Glass Fabrics 3259p-88 red. Sweet Bees: Storybook Panel (1 yard) - Susy Bee 20422-310. I never got to meet him, but of course my grandmother and my mom and her siblings were all very active in their hometown church. You can make these into a book, or use them as blocks in a quilt. On my mom’s side, my grandfather was a Methodist minister. This quilt is especially meaningful to me because it reminds me of my mom’s family and especially my grandmother Ann, for whom music was as important and integral to life as breathing. I had to improvise, and lucky me, I had a bolt of this Sweetwater print that I’d been saving for something else. Funny story–I was going to back this quilt in a gorgeous teal Snuggles fabric from Moda, but I didn’t ask for quite enough, and I didn’t realize it until I went to piece the backing the day before I was supposed to deliver this to the quilter.

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