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It’s Christmas in my mailbox

I’m the lead designer for the Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild Christmas tree for the Festival of Trees this year. For those of you who aren’t in the Quad-Cities, the Festival of Trees is a fundraiser for Quad-City Arts in which artists design Christmas trees, stockings, wreaths, hearths and entire rooms with Christmas decorations of their […]

Stephanie Soebbing

7 August, 2011

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Christmas in July sale

It’s Christmas in July here at Custom Quilts by Stephanie Soebbing. All Christmas stockings are 30 percent off. There are nine styles available in traditional and novelty prints including pet and sports themes. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, I’d be happy to make a custom stocking for you. Ready-made items are […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 July, 2010

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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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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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Instagram, the great motivator

http://instagram.com/p/ax8csQv4S2/ I started using Instagram with some frequency about the same time I started my maple leaf log cabin quilt. I took a class from Marti Michell when she came to my guild, and used her log cabin construction technique to  combine two blocks I’ve been itching to make a quilt with for years. I […]

Stephanie Soebbing

30 July, 2013

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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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‘Sonoma Rose’ characters haunted Chiaverini

Rosa Diaz Barclay and Lars Jorgensen haunted Jennifer Chiaverini since she wrote “The Quilter’s Homecoming” five years ago. The couple had been presumed dead until it was revealed they had fled the Arboles Valley, taken on aliases and were running a successful vineyard in California. No longer in need of the farm Rosa abandoned, she […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 February, 2012

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It’s all about good preparation

When I attended my first quilt retreat I brought a stack of fat quarters and a pattern from a magazine I wanted to make. My table-mate brought all her pieces pre-cut and ready to sew. We both got about the same amount of work done, but at the end of the weekend, it looked like […]

Stephanie Soebbing

12 March, 2014

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March quilting goals

I feel so behind. Here we are almost a full week into March and I still haven’t set my quilting goals for the month, or sewn a stitch outside of the Block of the Month class I taught last Saturday. Finish nursery sewing March is going to be dominated by baby nursery sewing. I’m down […]

Stephanie Soebbing

6 March, 2014

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Think Spring table runners finished and for sale

I finished my Think Spring Table Runners. They are each made using a charm pack from the Moda Blush fabric line, so all the colors are matched by the fabric company to work together. There is one in red, pink and brown that I quilted with a stipple pattern. And the second is blue and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 March, 2010

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