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Bible coloring pages coming

Posted on March 3, 2012 by admin

I am preparing to create a fundraising project through FaithFunder.com to raise funds to pay artists to create a spread of Bible coloring pages that can be used for making Bible quilts. The plan is to make the coloring pages available for free and to offer a wide variety of pictures so families and choose the pictures they like for their quilts.

All coloring page downloads on BibleQuilts.com are uniform in size to make it easy to pick and choose the ones for your child’s Bible quilt. More pictures to come.

This picture of Jonah was created by Rosemarie Gillen. Permission is granted to use this picture for educational purposes or for making Bible quilts. Click here for printable PDF file of Jonah and the Whale copyright 2012 by Rosemarie Gillen

The First Christmas – Bible quilt coloring pages

Posted on December 3, 2011 by admin

The Christmas coloring pages are ready in time to make a Christmas tree skirt. This is a project the whole family can enjoy. The coloring pages may be traced onto individual blocks and sewn onto the tree skirt or they may be traced and colored directly onto the tree skirt so no sewing would be needed apart from hemming the tree skirt.

The First Christmas Bible Quilt Coloring Pages may be downloaded here for $2.99.

A preview of the pictures in a honeycomb quilt. The pages are sized so they may be used as squares, rectangles, or hexagons.

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Posted on November 19, 2011 by admin

By Deborah Hopkinson, il. by James Ransome

One of my favorite children’s picture books is Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Clara, a very young slave girl was separated from her family and sold to another plantation to work in the fields. She learned to sew and used her talent to create a quilt that helped many slaves escape to freedom.

I feel a connection to Clara with my vision for Bible quilts for children’s beds. Just as Clara’s quilt pointed the way to freedom from slavery, Bible quilts can point the way to spiritual freedom found only in the Scriptures. My heart’s desire is that many will catch this vision for reaching young children and their parents for Jesus with the daily reminder of Bible stories when Children go to bed and when they wake up in the mornings.

I hope to find more ways to make Bible quilts available in the weeks and months ahead. Meanwhile there is a second Bible quilt coloring book nearly ready to publish under the title The First Christmas. These pictures could also be used to make a Christmas tree skirt.