Pretty in pink

Angela is so teeny tiny that the 42 super-cute cloth diapers I made her are WAY too big. They’re for babies 8 to 20 pounds and at just under 6 pounds Angela is swimming in newborn clothes and has no hope of fitting into the diapers. I didn’t make any diapers in the newborn size […]

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 […]
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Pre-orders open for my NEW BOOK! Fat Quarter Workshop: 12-Skill Building Patterns

Pre-order Stephanie Soebbing’s second book, “Fat Quarter Workshop: 12 Skill-Building Patterns.” Books are expected to ship in October. Your favorite fat quarter friendly Stashin’ with Stephanie patterns are now in book format! We have taken the top 10 Stashin’ with Stephanie patterns as voted by your downloads and assembled them in a printed book. There […]

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 […]

April Block of the Month

It’s time for the April Block of the Month release! This month we are starting the pieced border that goes around the center medallion. We’re making about a million picket fence units. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. But we only have four small blocks to make next month, so if you’re still working on these […]