Quilt of Faith: Stories of Comfort from the Patchwork Life

by Mary Tatem

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.

Genres: Christian, Christian Non Fiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2010

Reviews

[Jody Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely, uplifting compilation of stories all revolving around quilts. You learn the history of each style of quilt, the log cabin, the double wedding ring for example. This background is followed by several vignettes that involve that style of quilt. Each vignette end with a Bible verse. A book to be read slowly, and then meditated on. A book that can be read again and again. It is a bit inspiring, making this reader want to create maybe just one more quilt!

[Marsha Ronquist · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love quilts

This is like the Quilt of joy book. Twelves quilt patterns are mentioned, their origin and history. Than each is followed by short inspirational stories about faith and God.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. It read like a devotional: short stories centred on a point (with a quilt reference included), and then a little passage from the author on how we can apply a lesson from the Master in our lives. The book combined two of my great loves: learning from God's truth, and quilting. I will be reading more of Mary Tatem's work!

[Lori Henrich · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked this when I first started, but then the stories began to feel forced. They started to seem forced to fit the category. I also had another one but decided not to read it.