Quilt top reveal: Maple Leaf Log Cabin

For years I wanted to combine the maple leaf and log cabin blocks and I had a basket full of fat quarters to do it with. But it took a back seat to other projects until I took at log cabin class by Marti Michell when my guild, the Mississippi Valley Quilters Guild, brought her […]

Stephanie Soebbing

17 October, 2013

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Maple Leaf Log Cabin quilt pattern available for download

I’ve loved this quilt since the moment I started it. And judging from all the Facebook likes, retweets and hearts on Instagram, you all do too. Now you can make your own maple leaf log cabin quilt with my pattern. The pattern includes instructions on how to make half square triangles from squares, which means […]

Stephanie Soebbing

20 September, 2013

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Finding time to quilt every day

It’s fall, and that means spending more time in a classroom than at my sewing machine. I teach journalism and advise the student newspaper at my alma mater. We’re not talking going back to school after a summer off. We’re talking about working eight or nine hours at my main job at an ad agency, […]

Stephanie Soebbing

10 September, 2013

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Friday Progress Report: The final fabrics chosen by you

http://instagram.com/p/cY70HLv4fi/ I’ve got 12 blocks left to piece for my maple leaf log cabin quilt. That meant I needed two more fat quarters to make the maple leaves, but I had three to choose from. Since I owe my fast progress on this quilt to my followers on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, I decided to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

2 August, 2013

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Friday progress report: Maple leaves, log cabins and distractions

It’s time for a progress report. As my Instagram and Twitter followers know, I’ve been hard at work on the king-size maple leaf log cabin quilt I started in June when I took a class from Marti Michell. Last weekend I finished my 40th block, which sounds great until you hear that I’m making 64. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

19 July, 2013

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Quilting with Marti Michell

I took quilting celebrity Marti Michell’s Fat Quarter Log Cabin class last weekend. As I got ready, my husband predicted I would be a bad student, and he was right. I completely blew up the pattern. We were supposed to cut a 3-inch square for the center and then add 1-inch strips until the block […]

Stephanie Soebbing

4 June, 2013

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