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March Block of the Month – Stars in the Night

You all will be very happy to know that we are just making four blocks and there is no paper piecing this month! WE are making flying geese, but I show you how to make no-waste flying geese in the video tutorial and printable pattern. If you’ve never made flying geese this way before, you’re […]

Stephanie Soebbing

7 March, 2016

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2013 will be the year of the UFO

One of my biggest issues with quilt addiction is my constant need to start something new. I call it Quilters ADD, but my joke is becoming a problem. I just can’t seem to finish anything. The problem isn’t a lack of skills, or even time. I just prefer to work on something new than finish […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 December, 2012

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Pfaff releases new machine for sewers on the go

Pfaff has released a new sewing machine with the sewer on the go in mind. The lightweight Passport 3.0 is an update of the Passport 2.0, new features include 30 additional decorative stitches for a total of 100, and a thread cutter that cuts the needle and bobbin thread with the press of a button. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 February, 2016

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Refraction video tutorial and pattern

I make a lot of quilts. It is part of the job of being a pattern designer. I like them all, but I love Refraction. The quilt is deceptively simple. It uses strip piecing and a 60-degree ruler to create the the diamond shapes you see here. The quilt is made with a jelly roll […]

Stephanie Soebbing

12 January, 2017

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Ditching a quilt

No, I’m not throwing out a quilt, I’m stitching in the ditch. This was one of the first quilt finishing techniques I learned and quickly gave up when I started free motion quilting. But sometimes you just can’t get away with skipping this step, and that’s the case with my 2014 Block of the Month […]

Stephanie Soebbing

26 March, 2015

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Virtual shop hop: Willow Creek in Kalona, Iowa

If you find yourself in Kalona, Iowa, you must visit Willow Creek Quilting and Gifts on 418 B Avenue. This shop has hundreds of bolts of fabric that are all neatly organized so that shoppers won’t get overwhelmed. The shop has the largest supply of Civil War and 1930 reproduction prints that I’ve ever seen in […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 August, 2011

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Using storage totes to organize fabric by project

Like most sewers I have trouble keeping my fabric organized. I have a closet packed with fabric, but it is mostly just yardage stacked on top of each other. I needed a solution for projects with little pieces or notions that don’t stack well. I found it during one of those trips to Target when […]

Stephanie Soebbing

21 April, 2015

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Craftsy class review: ‘Help! How Do I Quilt It?’

I enrolled in one of Craftsy’s newer quilting classes, “Help! How Do I Quilt It? A Machine Quilting Manual” by Angela Walters last week to get some ideas for quilting my 2014 Block of the Month quilt. I have never quilted anything so large in anything other than an all-over pattern and wanted to do […]

Stephanie Soebbing

24 March, 2015

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Finished quilts of 2014

This past year was pretty productive when it came to quilting. I finished seven quilts, four of which were UFOs when the year began. I didn’t finish all the UFOs I set out to complete this year, but I plan to spend the night hand quilting to at least finish the final border of my […]

Stephanie Soebbing

31 December, 2013

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Saying goodbye to Nonna

This week I said goodbye to my grandmother, or Nonna, as my cousins and I called her. Born in Italy in 1925, she was raised to be a wife and mother. She cooked, cleaned, sewed and raised four children who loved her. The strange thing about death is that while it is painfully sad for […]

Stephanie Soebbing

14 November, 2012

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