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Virtual shop hop: Susan’s Calico Creations

Don’t let a traditional term like “calico” in the quilt shop name scare you modern quilters away from from Susan’s Calico Creations at 1108 4th St., Fulton, Ill. The shop carries more than 5,000 bolts of fabric in just about every style from the historical reproduction prints to contemporary batiks and Asian prints. The trademark […]

Stephanie Soebbing

18 October, 2011

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‘Giving Quilt’ returns to Elm Creek series roots

When most readers start a book series, they start at the beginning. That wasn’t the case for me when I discovered the Elm Creek Quilts series by Jennifer Chiaverini. I was still a relatively new quilter when I came across “The Cross-Country Quilters” on the shelf of my local library. The third novel in the […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 November, 2012

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Friday Progress Report: The final fabrics chosen by you

http://instagram.com/p/cY70HLv4fi/ I’ve got 12 blocks left to piece for my maple leaf log cabin quilt. That meant I needed two more fat quarters to make the maple leaves, but I had three to choose from. Since I owe my fast progress on this quilt to my followers on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, I decided to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

2 August, 2013

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Washing machine, the final quilting step

  I feel like a quilt isn’t really complete until it’s been through the wash. Hang in with me for a second those of you who think putting the final stitch in the binding is the time to celebrate. For my batting I go back and forth between Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton-poly blend and Quilters Dream […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 January, 2014

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I can’t just put my feet up

http://instagram.com/p/ma2mQ6v4ZG/ I was on a roll. I had sit-n-sew last Friday night and I had prepped all the half square triangles for the April Block of the Month and had them ready to sew together. Then I got home and cut all the components of the May Block of the Month and sewed together a […]

Stephanie Soebbing

7 April, 2014

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Quilting, crime and Christian lit come together in ‘Hidden in the Stars’

Following a brutal attack that killed her mother and stole her voice, Sophia Montgomery begins to unravel a mystery about her mother’s past and a discovers a quilt that holds the key to catching her mother’s killers before they return for her. “Hidden in the Stars” by Robin Caroll opens with Sophia waking up in […]

Stephanie Soebbing

3 September, 2014

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Giving knitting another go

I am an admittedly bad knitter. I can purl, knit and follow a pattern, but getting the project to turn out the right size is always a challenge. A few months ago I bought yarn to knit a sweater to go with Angela’s Easter dress that I made, and now I’m under the gun to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 March, 2015

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Before & After: Counsel makeover with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

  Have you ever made one tiny change in your home that lead to a major project? Like deciding to replace the faucets in your bathroom and pretty soon you have an entirely new bathroom and flooring in the adjoining hallway because one thing just keeps snowballing into the next? Well, that is pretty much […]

Stephanie Soebbing

30 November, 2017

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Super cute watermelon placemats

My mother-in-law’s birthday was Wednesday. She said she didn’t want us to buy her anything, so I decided to make something. My boss saw watermelon placemats at a quilt shop on vacation and, thinking of me, got a copy of the pattern. The placemats are actually quite easy to make. I fused fleece to the […]

Stephanie Soebbing

5 April, 2010

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Sewing room redo

I spent all day yesterday in my sewing room, but I didn’t sew a thing. I was cleaning and reorganizing everything. The closet, all my tubs and storage bins, even the bookshelf. I still have a little work to do before the transformation is complete and right now there are several piles of laundry on […]

Stephanie Soebbing

29 August, 2011

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