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My New York Beauty quilt blocks are half done

My schedule hasn’t allowed for much quilting time recently. So when the stars aligned so that there was an opening in the Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild fall retreat and I had a free Friday night and Saturday, I considered it a sign from the universe that it was time to quilt. I just brought one […]

Stephanie Soebbing

8 October, 2012

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August Block of the Month

This month we’re making quarter square triangles, also known as hour glass units, from squares. It’s a new block for this quilt, but the technique is very similar to making the double pinwheels from squares, which we did in May and July. If you can handle those blocks, then this month will be a piece […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 August, 2014

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Ghost of Christmas Past round up

Congratulations to Susie, the winner of the Fabric.com gift card! She was chosen at random from the Ghost of Christmas Past exchange participants who finished their quilt tops by December 26 and posted their photos to the Quilt Addicts Anonymous Facebook page. Susie managed to finish the quilt top even though she was recovering from […]

Stephanie Soebbing

27 December, 2015

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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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‘The Wedding Quilt’ ties up loose ends

I’ve read all of Jennifer Chiaverini’s novels in the Elm Creek Quilts series except “The Union Quilters,” which I just picked up from the library. I’ve loved all of them, so it’s not much of a surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed “The Wedding Quilt,” which goes on sale Tuesday. Warning: There will be a few […]

Stephanie Soebbing

30 October, 2011

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An essay on neglected quilts and houses

Everyone has heard a tale or two about a quilt that was found at a garage sale. The owners just didn’t appreciate the quilt or know how to properly care for it. So the quilt spent a few decades neglected in the attic or being used to keep the garage floor clean when it was […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 February, 2012

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Block a Day Challenge roundup – Week 13

This week we finished 20 blocks, two quilt tops and two quilts. I took a week off from sewing myself. I’ve just been exhausted all week. But I cleared my schedule this weekend and plan to make up for lost time. You’ve got two more days to post your blocks, tops and completed quilts for […]

Stephanie Soebbing

30 March, 2012

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Add ‘The Forgotten Seamstress’ to your summer reading list

“The Forgotten Seamstress” is not your average sewing novel. The story opens in 1970s England as a graduate student researching treatment of the mentally ill, interviews a woman who spent decades of her life in an asylum, she says because she got pregnant with the bastard son of the Prince of Wales. The medical reports […]

Stephanie Soebbing

27 May, 2014

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Barn quilts of Shawano County

I’ve been vacationing in Shawano County Wisconsin since I was a little girl. My family owns a cabin on Lake Shawano and some of my best memories were made there. But now every time I drive up there, I have to have my camera with me. The farmers around the county have erected more 200 […]

Stephanie Soebbing

18 July, 2013

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Sneak peak

I pulled my 2014 BOM off the longarm earlier this week. There’s still a TON of work to do on it before the big reveal on here (binding, label, hiding threads). But I couldn’t resist showing you a sneak peak of the quilting. Before loading this quilt on the frame it had been a year […]

Stephanie Soebbing

30 April, 2015

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