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$10 antique store find

It’s official. At 13-months-old Angela has her first sewing machine. One of my favorite rainy day activities while on vacation in Shawano, Wisconsin, is visiting antique shops. Usually it is the same stuff year after year. Beer steins, tchotchkes, spoons, more junk than treasures. But occasionally I find something good. This trip it was a […]

Stephanie Soebbing

25 June, 2015

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Nap time quilting

http://instagram.com/p/qCYGpOP4aY/?modal=true Nap time quilting.  It’s a popular pastime among quilting moms, there are even entire blogs dedicated to it. And now I’m one of the nap time quilters cramming as much into nap times as possible. It’s amazing what you can get done when you know there’s only and hour, maybe two to finish it in. Last […]

Stephanie Soebbing

8 July, 2014

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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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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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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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Enter to win a copy of ‘World War I Quilts’

I’ve got a great giveaway for you all today courtesy of Schiffer Publishing. They are giving away a copy of “World War I Quilts,” the latest book from Sue Reich that chronicles the history of quilts made during the early 20th century to ease the hardships of the Great War, as it was then known, and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

2 February, 2015

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Completed project: Patriotic T-shirt quilt

This quilt was made for a client out of T-shirts he collected from his days in the Navy, working as a union laborer and volunteering at elections. He chose an appropriate red, white and blue color scheme for the sashing in between the T-shirt blocks.

Stephanie Soebbing

27 March, 2010

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Kalona quilts continued

The Kalona Historical Village put together an exhibit just for the Iowa Illinois Quilt Study Group that featured quilts with a family story. The quilts are absolutely remarkable and I’ll them speak for themselves.

Stephanie Soebbing

10 August, 2011

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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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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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