Oh happy day8/28/2023 If you hit the bell, it will notify you when new videos are up.Īnd lastly, we love seeing each others blocks as we make them! If you’d like to share pictures of your blocks, come join the Coriander Quilts Facebook group. If you subscribe to my channel, right after you hit the red subscribe button, a little bell pops up beside that button. You can also follow along over on YouTube as I’ll be releasing weekly videos there as well. If you have a tablet/phone you’ll find the spot to enter your email when you rotate your phone horizontally and then click the little orange arrows on the top left side. On your computer, on the top left of the blog you’d just enter your email into the “subscribe to blog via email” box. If you’d like to subscribe to the blog posts, you can be notified via email when a new post comes out. I received a few questions about how to receive notifications when the blocks are released. I’m also including the page that the cutting instructions are listed on each week as well as the page for the written piecing instructions. You’ll find a schedule for the sew along below if you’d like to mark your calendars. We will be making 9 of the blocks from the book followed by 3 weeks of finishing instructions. You can decide which ones you enjoy making and think about which quilts and/or pillows you might like to make. Generations of Love quilt from the book Oh, Happy Day!Īs I mentioned in my video, the fun of a sampler sew along based on blocks from a book is that it allows you to try out the different blocks. All of the 9 blocks that we are making from the book will be 12 1/2″ square. The rectangles are sewn together into pairs and then the pairs into rows. Here are the fabrics that I used (from my Buttercup & Slate line of fabric), as well as my fabric placement. Easy, peasy…those are the only fabrics you will need for this week’s block. Listed under “Materials” cut the 18 rectangles in the size listed. Grab your Oh, Happy Day! book and turn to page 32. The block we are kicking off with is the Generations of Love block. For that reason, when I designed each pillow project, I made sure to set up the instructions so you could easily see what you would need to cut to make one 12″ finished block (12 1/2″ unfinished). I wanted it to be simple to host and simple to follow along with. When I was writing and planning the projects in Oh, Happy Day! I knew that I wanted to host a sampler sew along after the book came out. You can find the information I’ve shared so far in this blog post. The weather is cooperating for me too…we’ve had some wonderful fall temperatures move in over the last few days and it feels like sewing weather!įirst of all, if you’ve missed the previous blog posts about this sew along, it’s not too late to join in. Since wrapping up the Beautiful Day sew along, I’ve been eagerly waiting for the start of this one. In 1970, the Hawkins singers won a Grammy for best soul gospel performance for "Oh Happy Day." Hawkins himself would make dozens of records, winning awards for the songs "Every Man Wants to Be Free" and "Wonderful!" He was voted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2007.Welcome to Week #1 of the Oh, Happy Day! Sampler Sew Along. My mother, who was a devout Christian, loved the Lord and displayed that in her lifestyle." "We grew up hearing all kinds of music in our home. "Our music was probably a blend and a crossover of everything that I was hearing during that time," Hawkins said in an interview in 2015. George Harrison of the Beatles was said to be inspired by "Oh Happy Day" when he wrote his hit "My Sweet Lord" in 1970. The song would go on to be recorded by numerous other artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Mathis and Glen Campbell. Read more: Europe's first Christian pop music academy to open in Germany Featuring the vocals of Dorothy Combs Morrison, the song was released as a single credited to the Edwin Hawkins Singers in 1969 and sold more than a million copies. Radio stations in the San Francisco Bay area picked up one of the album's songs, the call-and-response style "Oh Happy Day," and a crossover hit was born. In his 20s, he helped form the Northern California State Youth Choir, which released its first album, "Let Us Go into the House of the Lord," in 1968. Edwin Hawkins, who helped launch the gospel and inspirational music scene during the turbulent era of the late 1960s and went on to win four Grammys, has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 74.Ī composer, keyboardist, arranger and choir master from Oakland, Hawkins had been performing with his family and in church groups since childhood.
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