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Wildflower Meadow quilt pattern tutorial – Uses No Waste Flying Geese!

Wildflower Meadow is the perfect scrap busting pattern. Originally designed for a fabric exchange, this is a great way to use up your stash or a fat quarter bundle. The pattern includes instructions on how to make flying geese units from squares, which means all those points will end up where they are supposed to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 June, 2016

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Wildflower Meadow pattern and tutorial

I originally designed this quilt pattern to make a gift for my aunt. I loved it so much I decided I had to write it up and share it with you all. This is an awesome stash buster quilt. I used up a bunch of fat quarters I bought when I first started quilting (they’re […]

Stephanie Soebbing

28 June, 2016

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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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Quilt Addicts Anonymous Mini Block of the Month June 2016

This Mini Block of the Month pattern was created just for those quilters who don’t want to commit to a full year-long BOM, or don’t have the budget to purchase the fabric for a king-sized quilt. If you fit into either of those categories, then the Quilt Addicts Anonymous Mini BOM 2016 is for you. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

21 June, 2016

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June Mini Block of the Month

It’s here! The Mini Block of the Month has officially launched. For those of you who haven’t been following along, the Mini Block of the Month, is a three-month BOM program for quilters who don’t have the budget to make a king-sized quilt or don’t want to make a year-long commitment to a quilt. The […]

Stephanie Soebbing

20 June, 2016

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Alison Glass: Artist, hashtag, down to earth

Her name is a hashtag, but even though a search for #AlisonGlass on Instagram turns up 9,000+ photos of quilters and sewers who have used her fabric and patterns, Glass – who goes by Ali to family and friends – is pretty down to earth. Looking for a way to stay closer to home when […]

Stephanie Soebbing

17 June, 2016

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So it turns out you can have too much fabric …

Earlier this week I wrote that it looked like a quilt shop threw up in my living room. I received comments like, “And that’s a bad thing?” and “Heaven.” Then, the next day even MORE fabric arrived. Yes, I currently have about 1,000 yards of the beautiful Majestic Batiks that needs to be cut and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

15 June, 2016

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It looks like a quilt shop threw up in my living room

The fabric for the Quilt Addicts Anonymous Mini BOM arrived today! It came in five huge, heavy boxes and I am just so excited to see all the fabrics together. When I chose the fabric, I selected from swatches that measure about 8 inches square. It is just so much more exciting to see the […]

Stephanie Soebbing

13 June, 2016

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Bonnie Hunter and her scrap obsession

If you’ve ever thrown away scraps in a Bonnie Hunter class, there’s a good chance they made their way into her pattern Pineapple Crazy in her book “String Fling.” The bed-sized quilt is made up of 5-inch paper-pieced pineapple blocks with impossibly small pieces. And all those pieces you thought you couldn’t use and tossed, well […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 June, 2016

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Quilt Addicts Anonymous Block of the Month May 2016

This is the start of a brand new block of the month from Quilt Addicts Anonymous. We are using an alternative grid layout with different sized blocks. The first features an 18-inch star pattern, made with paper piece and half-square triangles. Free printable instructions are available at this link: http://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/block-of-t­he-month-2016/

Stephanie Soebbing

9 June, 2016

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