Review: ‘Let’s Get Creative with Quilt Labels’ offers inspiration, tutorials

Let’s face it. We love our quilts and hope those we give them to or inherit them after we’re gone, will cherish the quilts and always remember the occasion for which they were made. But we’ve all heard the horror stories of handmade quilts being sold at garage sales, or the tales of quilt appraisers […]

Stephanie Soebbing

10 July, 2014

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Wear all the babies

My sister is expecting her second child soon and she asked if I could make her a ring sling so she can hold baby number two while caring for baby number one. Of course I said yes because it involved sewing something for my sister/new nephew, going to the fabric store with my sister and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

23 April, 2015

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Dare to DIY: Deck the halls

I had a sewing marathon last weekend. I spent most of the time working on Christmas presents and my Christmas fabric exchange quilt. I still haven’t started the Christmas stockings for my family. So I’ll share photos of the paper-pieced tree skirt I made for the Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild tree at the Festival of […]

Stephanie Soebbing

12 December, 2011

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August Block of the Month

The August block is another simple block. We’re just making a few half square triangles and then putting it together in rows of four with some squares. The complicated look that makes this quilt look difficult comes when we assemble all the different blocks at the end of the year. Also, if you’re running low […]

Stephanie Soebbing

3 August, 2015

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Paper piecing is great for beginner quilters

I taught my first quilt class last Saturday on paper piecing. I love this quilting method because it allows you to get really sharp points without templates or insanely accurate quarter-inch seams. It’s kind of like sewing by numbers and its really easy once you get the hang of it. I was teaching the class […]

Stephanie Soebbing

26 August, 2011

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January quilting goals: How’d I do

It’s time to come clean on how well I did at accomplishing my quilting goals for the month. I had a pretty long set of goals, and in retrospect it was kind of like when you’ve waited to long in between meals and then go through a buffet line. I put more on my plate […]

Stephanie Soebbing

31 January, 2014

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Teaching my mom to be a quilt addict

My mom is learning to quilt. If you ask her, she’ll say she’s learning how to make table runners and she doesn’t want to make large quilts. But I just think she hasn’t been fully indoctrinated yet. She has a very demanding job and is looking for something fun to do to relax. So I’ve […]

Stephanie Soebbing

26 April, 2013

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Review: Black & Decker Corded Professional Electronic Control Iron

My trusty iron of 10 years went up in a fiery blaze a little just before Christmas. OK, so it was more like a very small electrical fire that didn’t do much damage. But the result was the same, it spent the night outside in the snow to cool off and I had to get […]

Stephanie Soebbing

6 February, 2014

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Friday progress report: Quilt Retreat was just what I needed

Last weekend I traded in my husband and dogs for a weekend of quilting in DeWitt, Iowa. The small town about 30 minutes from the Quad-Cities, where I live is home to Grace Lutheran Camp, the site of my guild’s semi-annual quilt retreat. Normally I take Thursday and Friday off for four glorious days of […]

Stephanie Soebbing

18 October, 2013

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Handmade Christmas present reveal

It’s that time of year when my relatives smiling faces will grace the blog holding up the handmade gifts they got for Christmas. I hope you enjoy it, I’m sure they don’t. American Girl doll wardrobe For years whenever I make a garment for myself I also made a tiny version for my niece, in […]

Stephanie Soebbing

27 December, 2013

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