Heart-touching stories themed around 12 beloved quilt patterns offer comfort and inspiration to readers.

Sixty story-based devotionals draw encouraging insights from quilts. This follow-up to the popular devotional The Quilt of Life includes a fact about quilts with each reading.

Quilters understand with every stitch how God can make even scraps wonderfully new and striking with a little time, imagination, and love. In these touching books, Mary Tatem pieces together spiritual insights and stories of quilters into devotionals that feature some of the most beloved and recognizable quilt patterns in America. Readers will discover the historical background of each pattern and be enchanted by the spiritual reflections on joy, faith, creativity, gratitude, patience, hope, and more. Encouragement, inspiration, and celebration--as well as some great stories--await readers as they discover that, in God's design, even the smallest scraps or most frayed fragments can be fashioned into something new, complete, comfort-giving, and beautiful.

Both novices and long-time quilting enthusiasts can enjoy this collection of meditations. With Scriptures, prayers and quilting tips, readers can discover that valuable lessons can be learned around the quilting frame as they search for and recognize God there.

Heavenly Patchwork--Quilt Stories Stitched with Love will inspire and entertain as it transports you into the lives and hearts of pioneer and contemporary women. Rejoice or cry with those who homesteaded a hostile and barren landscape, struggled to survive and nurture their families through the Great Depression and Dust Bowl Days or currently cope with our fast-paced society. These interesting often amusing vignettes will renew your hope, inspire your faith as these everyday heroines stitch true tales of courage against insurmountable obstacles into heart-warming patchwork. Each leaves behind a legacy of love and faith in God to future generations. Observe as each brave woman pieces brokenness into beauty and forges the way into a brighter tomorrow. Heavenly Patchwork tells the larger story of God's faithfulness to sustain, heal, comfort and strengthen women through hardships. All book profits go to non-profit groups that make charity quilts

Quilting hobbyist McDowell sees each moment as a piece of quilt that God weaves together to make a glorious lifelong work of art. In this book, various quilting patterns are used metaphorically to show how God can make the scraps of our lives into something beautiful. This updated and repackaged edition features new four-color illustrations and photos of traditional quilt patterns that mirror God's often intricate work in our lives.

Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.