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Gain confidence with ‘The Quilter’s Palette’

When I teach quilting classes the biggest problem my students encounter is figuring out which fabrics will look best with their pattern. The difficulties range from picking a palette of busy prints with no neutral fabric, having trouble putting prints together when they don’t come in a neatly packaged fabric line, to just not being confident […]

Stephanie Soebbing

6 August, 2014

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South Shore Crea Sewing Craft Table a good mid-budget desk

It felt a little bit like Christmas last week as large boxes kept showing up at my door filled with goodies for my new sewing studio/office. For the first time ever I have a desk that was specifically designed for sewing and I love it. I chose the South Shore Crea Sewing Craft Table on […]

Stephanie Soebbing

6 May, 2015

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Quilt Market 2017: First booth, exhaustion and some really fun invites

Here is my really late round of Quilt Market Fall 2017. For those of you who have never been, when you get home you are pretty much completely exhausted for at least a week. I finally feel recovered almost two weeks after it ended. I spent the first day back replying to emails, day two […]

Stephanie Soebbing

13 November, 2017

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If only I could sew with my feet up

I did manage to get some sewing done last weekend, but thanks to an epic case of pregnant swelling, I’ve had to spend a good amount of time sitting on the couch with my feet up. While some might consider a prescription to rest an excellent idea, I hate it. I’ve been so bored. The […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 April, 2014

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Alison Glass: Artist, hashtag, down to earth

Her name is a hashtag, but even though a search for #AlisonGlass on Instagram turns up 9,000+ photos of quilters and sewers who have used her fabric and patterns, Glass – who goes by Ali to family and friends – is pretty down to earth. Looking for a way to stay closer to home when […]

Stephanie Soebbing

17 June, 2016

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An essay on clean underwear and quilting

This morning, for the second time this week, I had to wait for a load of laundry to finish drying so I could change my underpants before I left for work. This sad truth is neither an unusual occurrence, or a record of how many times a week I’ve woken up without clean skivvies. There are two reasons […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 December, 2011

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February quilting goals: How’d I do?

I had such wonderful sewing goals for this month. But alas, the best laid plans are meant to be broken. I didn’t accomplish anywhere near what I wanted to thanks to a short month, and an unexpected sewing machine repair that left me without a machine for a week. Here’s what I did manage to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

3 March, 2014

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Before quilt retreat: Lonestar

I’m leaving for quilt retreat as soon as I publish this post and I can’t wait. But I wanted to share one more project I’ll be working on with you all, my lonestar quilt. The star center is done, and I’ve been stuck on the applique background for a while. I’m sewing it by hand, […]

Stephanie Soebbing

13 October, 2011

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Sewing, a family affair

Last month my family went on our annual vacation. It’s one week in Wisconsin with eight adults, three children 2 and under, three dogs in two cabins on a lake. It is always a lot of fun, and a good break from the day-to-day. But this year, I was still working … kinda. I helped […]

Stephanie Soebbing

19 August, 2015

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November Block of the Month

We’re almost to the end of the 2014 Block of the Month. The November block includes three different techniques. We’ve done them all before, so this will be a good refresher of all we’ve learned this year. Make sure to come back next month, because I’ll be hosting a contest and giving away some free […]

Stephanie Soebbing

12 November, 2014

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