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Virtual Shop Hop: Neal’s Vacuum & Sewing Center, Muscatine, Iowa

Quilt shop names often contain some clever word play. The ones featured so far in the Virtual Shop Hop series fit the bill. There’s Quiltology, A Quilting Bee, Quilting Divas and Quilter’s Heaven to name a few. But Neal’s Vacuum & Sewing Center in Muscatine, Iowa, is straight to the point. You know what you’ll […]

Stephanie Soebbing

7 February, 2012

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Cloth diapers, cute booties and leaks

Angela finally managed to sleep long enough for me to get a dozen cloth diapers in a newborn size finished, which means we’ve been putting them to the test for the first time. Of course, as soon as I put her in one of the cloth diapers, she took a massive poop. I’m happy to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

29 May, 2014

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A new addiction

I’ve watched a million, OK maybe dozens, of YouTube tutorials on chalk pain, examined the beautiful brush stroke-free finishes and drooled over the colors in the Annie Sloan color chart. But I wasn’t quite ready to take the plunge without taking a class first. I wasn’t sure which brush I needed for what technique, how […]

Stephanie Soebbing

3 February, 2015

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Virtual Shop Hop: The Quilted Nest, Collingswood, N.J.

One day Robin Laino came home from a particularly horrible day working in finance and decided she was done with corporate life and would open a quilt shop. “I said to my husband, ‘You know, I’m done working for crazy, I can do crazy all by myself,’ ” Laino recalled. “And the next day I […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 November, 2015

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Gnomes, dogs and sewing

If you’re wondering why I’m talking about gnomes and dogs on a quilting blog, I’ll explain. I have a friend who love gnomes. She has a cute little set in her house. So when I found Michael Miller’s Gnoming Around fabric collection I had to let her know about it. Soon a plan was hatched […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 March, 2011

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Christmas in July quilt top reveal

Sometimes when you go into a fabric store a line just grabs you. And that’s what happened to me when I spotted Holiday Frost by Jan Shade Beach for Henry Glass & Co., Inc. I picked up one panel, two yards of the red snowflake, one yard of the silver snowflake and one and two-thirds […]

Stephanie Soebbing

23 July, 2013

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Reason #357 why it is awesome to live next door to a quilter

About four years ago I packed up and headed to my first quilt retreat. I brought so much stuff with me my husband joked that it looked like I was leaving him. It did look like I had emptied our little overcrowded two bedroom duplex we were renting. We were house hunting, but hadn’t found […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 March, 2014

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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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