Barn quilts of Shawano County

I’ve been vacationing in Shawano County Wisconsin since I was a little girl. My family owns a cabin on Lake Shawano and some of my best memories were made there. But now every time I drive up there, I have to have my camera with me. The farmers around the county have erected more 200 […]

Stephanie Soebbing

18 July, 2013

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Stripping in Paradise tutorial and kit reveal

I have been holding this news back since March and am so excited to share it with you all now! The Stripping in Paradise pattern has been my favorite so far of all the patterns I’ve created for fabric exchanges. So when the exchange wrapped up, I wanted a way to share the quilt and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

19 August, 2016

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Jelly Roll Rug π! 12 Makes of Christmas

For our 11th Make of Christmas we are bringing back the  Colossal Round Rug & Jelly Roll Rug π  Tutorial. This fun project can easily be done in a weekend so you can get one, or several done for this holiday season. This is the round version of the popular Jelly Roll Rug. The pattern includes […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 December, 2018

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Upcycled Sweaters Mittens Tutorial & PDF Pattern – 12 Makes of Christmas 2021

Today’s video is very special to me. This Christmas, I am taking my late grandma’s sweaters and turning them into mittens for the women in my family to enjoy and remember her by. I believe it will be a very thoughtful and heartfelt gift as we celebrate our first Christmas without her. This project was […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 December, 2021

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Double Loop Meander – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are stitching the double loop meander. It’s exactly what it sounds … after you stitch the first loop, […]

Stephanie Soebbing

9 February, 2022

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SAQA exhibit celebrates Marie Webster

Marie Webster. Never heard that name before? Well quilters today owe a lot to her. In 1909, she broke with traditional Victorian quilt patterns and created her first applique quilt that was inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement. Her designs, featuring a center medallion typically of flowers, and strong borders caught the eye of […]

Stephanie Soebbing

24 June, 2016

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Celestial: Strip-pieced, no Y-seam diamonds make this quilt fast!

This month’s new fat quarter friendly pattern is inspired by this month’s featured fabric, Zen by Sue Zipkin for Clothworks. Celestial is one of my favorite types of quilt designs, one that looks way more complicated than it actually is. The blocks are assembled using strip piecing and no Y-seams, so the quilt top comes […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 April, 2023

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Simplified Swirl – Intro to Free Motion Quilting

Welcome to our Intro Free Motion Quilting series! We are so excited about this course so we can help give you the confidence to finish your quilts yourself on your home sewing machine or longarm. Today we are working on a simplified swirl which is the swirl I use the majority of the time. It […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 February, 2022

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Virtual Shop Hop: Pinery Patches, Tigerton, Wis.

Pinery Patches is the second rural quilt shop I’ve visited that is located on property, a few miles outside of town in a building erected from the same building materials you would expect to find a modern farm building made from. It makes sense really, why pay rent that eats into your profit, when you […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 July, 2015

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Chiaverini makes women central players in history in ‘Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule’

History is written by men and in most cases they minimized or completely ignored the critical role women played in shaping the events of the past. Chiaverini corrects this in her latest novel released last week, “Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule.” A mix of well researched fact and imagined fiction to fill in the gaps […]

Stephanie Soebbing

10 March, 2015

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