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Block a Day roundup – Week 6

My goodness were we productive this week. In the Block a Day Challenge we completed 85 blocks and four quilts. Keep it up for a chance to win this month’s prize, a copy of Eva A. Larkin’s “Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy.” Now onto a virtual show and tell of our work this week.

Stephanie Soebbing

10 February, 2012

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September Block of the Month

This month’s block is made fast and easy thanks to some time saving techniques. We’re making more half square triangles. You all should be experts at making them by now. Then we’re going to use strip piecing to make the four patch units. It works by sewing long strips together first and then cutting them […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 September, 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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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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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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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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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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Best day ever

When I released the April Block of the Month pattern on Monday, it was my best day ever for website traffic. That was followed up on Tuesday with yet another, best day ever. The amount of traffic websites consider good is so variable, but I can tell you that I got as many pageviews in […]

Stephanie Soebbing

9 April, 2015

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‘True Love Quilting Club’ makes quilts sexy

I was not expecting such a steamy book when I picked up “The True Love Quilting Club” off of my grandmother’s shelf. But once I started the book, I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. While there is a decent amount of quilting in this book, it is primarily a love story, and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 August, 2011

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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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