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Feeling the Christmas crunch

I started my career as a journalist, which means I like a good deadline. It also means I’m a procrastinator, a bad habit that bites me in the rear every holiday season. The gifts are bought, most of them are even wrapped, my cards have been mailed, but I haven’t even begun the handmade presents. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

21 December, 2015

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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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4 quilt apps for the iPhone I love

Craftsy If you haven’t heard of Craftsy yet, then you must visit Craftsy.com immediately. You can take classes in all kinds of quilting techniques, from free motion quilting to appliqué and everything in between. Then download the Craftsy app and you can take those classes with you wherever you go. I used it to watch […]

Stephanie Soebbing

5 August, 2013

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Quilt retreat to-do list

If you ask my grandma, she thinks I sew all day long. Unfortunately that isn’t the case. The business end of running a quilting blog tends eat up more time than sewing and you’re usually more likely to find me in front of a computer than the sewing machine. But that is going to change […]

Stephanie Soebbing

19 October, 2015

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Success: Signature quilt top is pieced

I’ll admit that there were times when I thought I’d never get around to sewing together the top to my signature quilt, but it is officially pieced together. I still have to add two borders, but that’s a piece of cake at this point. I’ve even gotten a little ahead of myself and started marking […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 March, 2010

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Next Gen Quilters go on a Shop Hop

My sit-n-sew tends to be a lot of talk. And for years we’ve talked about going on a shop hop. It’s been so long that the group has gone from being for quilters in their 20s and 30s to quilters in their 30s and 40s. The membership didn’t change. We just got older. So we […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 July, 2015

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Fuzzy cow

May is a big month for birthdays in my family. There are four kids who have birthdays all within a couple weeks of each other. Granted the fourth was just born last week, but it counts. All those birthdays mean May has unofficially been dubbed “Sewing for Kids Month” at my house. First up was […]

Stephanie Soebbing

20 May, 2015

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National Quilt Museum, Quilts of Valor honor veterans

The National Quilt Museum and Quilts of Valor honored veterans earlier this week by giving the patriotic quilts that made up the To Honor and Comfort exhibit to 34 veterans of war. The exhibit at the Paducah, Kentucky museum featured premium examples of patriotic quilts made for the Quilts of Valor organization, which seeks to provide […]

Stephanie Soebbing

13 November, 2015

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A quilting emergency

There I was, 18 inches away from finishing sewing the binding onto the front of a crib quilt I needed to finish. I still had to sew it to the back by hand and the baby shower started in two hours. I ran out of bobbin thread, no big deal right. When I loaded it […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 February, 2014

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You might have a quilting addiction if …

A sign you may have a quilting addiction: You successfully hide your sewing activities from family and friends. Example: At the end of a long day spent with family over Labor Day weekend, my dad said, “I’m proud of you.” “Why?” I replied. “You didn’t do any sewing today.” No, I just spent three hours […]

Stephanie Soebbing

10 September, 2015

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