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It’s a Christmas miracle

It’s Christmas Eve and I don’t have any last minute sewing to do … It’s a Christmas miracle. Normally about this time I’m freaking out about how exactly I’m going to finish everything and get it wrapped in time. Honestly, it doesn’t really even feel like Christmas if I’m not still up at 5 a.m. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

24 December, 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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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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Lilac, lace and a toddler who won’t sit still …

Life has been a little crazy lately, so I’m just now getting around to sharing photos of the Easter dress I made for the future quilter. I don’t get to do too much garment sewing, so I’m certainly not an expert, but I am getting better. And I just LOVE sewing something frilly for my […]

Stephanie Soebbing

17 April, 2016

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Block a Day Challenge round up – Week 5

This week in the Block a Day Challenge we gained five new members, finished five quilts – two of which will be donated to charity – and 27 quilt blocks. Congratulations on a productive week. Keep it up and you’ll have a chance to win this month’s prize, “Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy” by Eva A. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

3 February, 2012

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Chiaverini supports Project Linus by letting readers chose the twins’ gender

Jennifer Chiaverini is as civically minded as the characters in her book. At the Midwest Writing Center luncheon in Davenport, Iowa, Chiaverini joked about how readers were just dying to know the gender of Sarah’s twins and that Sarah’s pregnancy was really just a regular nine-month gestation period, even though she’s been pregnant for several […]

Stephanie Soebbing

8 November, 2011

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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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Quilt retreat!

As you read this I am happily sewing away at quilt retreat. The semi-annual get-a-way is hosted by my guild, the Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild and it gives me four days of (mostly) uninterrupted sewing and quilting. This is the first time I’m going for more than just the weekend in three years, so I’m […]

Stephanie Soebbing

19 March, 2015

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Jennifer Chiaverini answers your questions

Jennifer Chiaverini’s 19th Elm Creek Quilts novel, “Sonoma Rose” will be released on Tuesday, Feb. 21. I got a chance to talk with her in a phone interview from her Madison, Wis., home yesterday and read an advance copy of the book. That means today is Elm Creek Quilts Day on Quilt Addicts Anonymous, because […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 February, 2012

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Quilts of Love spins stories with quilts

Quilters yearning for a good story about their craft have a new series to line their bookshelves with. The Quilts of Love series from Abingdon Press features 25 books, each by a different author and written across multiple genres. The two things they have in common are each story has a quilt is woven through each […]

Stephanie Soebbing

2 September, 2014

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