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August 2016 Block of the Month tutorial!

Welcome to August! I can’t believe we’re almost to fall and on the second half of the 2016 BOM. I’m already starting to design the BOM for next year and have chosen fabrics. So keep an eye out for that sign up soon. I know this is a busy time of year with getting the […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 August, 2016

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First baby quilt of 2012

It’s looking like 2012 might be the year of the baby quilt as well. Heck maybe my entire 20s will be the decade of the baby quilt since all my friends seem to be having kids one after the other and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. But I love working on […]

Stephanie Soebbing

10 January, 2012

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Sleeping babies, the IRS and creative time

  The good news … at nine-months-old Angela has started to go to sleep and stay asleep at the same time every night. And her bedtime is a full three hours before my bedtime, which means plenty of time to do whatever I want. The bad news … I’ve been spending the majority of that […]

Stephanie Soebbing

25 February, 2015

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Bridal quilts, antique sewing machines and T-shirt quilts

I went to a bridal shower for my cousin’s fiancee over the weekend. My aunt also quilts and she made her a beautiful quilt of half-square triangles. She recently had surgery on her hand, so completing the bed quilt in less than a month was quite an accomplishment. My dad got a hold of a […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 February, 2010

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Well … it’ll fit next year

When I started Little Sister’s Dress a few months ago I planned to make it in the six months size, but I think Angela will be 18 months or maybe even two years old before she fills out the finished garment. And it will definitely be a tunic, not a dress. It’s the thought that counts […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 March, 2015

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One pattern, six completely different quilts

Late last month I got together with the women who took my Block of the Month class last year at my local quilt shop to show off our finished quilts. When I started the class, I had five students and figured I’d put the pattern online since I was doing all the work of creating […]

Stephanie Soebbing

9 June, 2015

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Matching baby and doll quilt for sale

I found a cute charm pack of contemporary pink and brown fabrics, combined it with a coordinating jelly roll and a cute white print to create a matching baby and doll quilt. They are both for sale at www.stephaniesoebbing.etsy.com.

Stephanie Soebbing

14 January, 2010

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1,500 inches of binding

Not that long ago I wrote about how the downside of spending so much time on the longarm lately means I now had 700 inches of binding to do by hand. I know there are some who love sewing binding on by hand. I’m not one of them. But I prefer the look to machine […]

Stephanie Soebbing

10 June, 2015

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Don’t get it wet or feed it after midnight

I have a few quilting rules, most of them regulate what I can and cannot attempt to sew after 10 p.m. Paper piecing is at the top of the do not attempt list. The results are similar to getting a Mogwai wet or feeding it after midnight. My sewing abilities turn into the quilting equivalent of […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 July, 2014

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I’m learning to knit socks

For Christmas I asked for balls of sock yarn, never mind the fact that I didn’t actually know how to knit socks. I had a book on the subject and figured that if I could teach myself to quilt on the Internet, then I probably could teach myself to knit socks with a book. Well […]

Stephanie Soebbing

17 July, 2012

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