free motion quilting – Page 8 – Quilt Addicts Anonymous

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How to clean and care for your Full Line Stencils for free motion quilting

We get questions about how to care and clean for your stencils, so we are covering that in today’s video! I show you how to clean your stencil to remove the chalk between uses, talk about how I store the stencils to keep them nice and how to iron out any wrinkles so you can […]

Stephanie Soebbing

13 June, 2019

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Easiest Feather EVER! How to quilt an overall feather swirl combo

Feathers are one of the most intimidating free motion quilting designs to master and for years I tried and failed to quilt them. That is until I found the Interlocking El Dorado #50003 stencil from Full Line Stencil. This stencil is the perfect combination of feathers and swirls so you can start off with an […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 February, 2019

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Friday progress report: Practicing new free motion quilting patterns

Every time I rent time on the longarm machine at Quilting by You in Bettendorf, the shop owners ask what crazy plans I have. Occasionally I use one overall pattern, with one thread. But most of the time I’m trying out new stitches, techniques and changing thread half-a-dozen times. That was the case this week […]

Stephanie Soebbing

23 August, 2013

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This is the stencil that I finally mastered feathers with …

I had the honor of quilting my mom’s first bed sized quilt this week. She made one of my very early patterns, the 5-Hour Bed Quilt. Full disclaimer that it take five hours if you’ve been quilting for a long time. It’s a giant disappearing nine-patch made using layer cakes. So it’s super simple, with […]

Stephanie Soebbing

16 September, 2022

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Up Close with the Stars – National Quilt Museum Block of the Month Club – August 2018

Stephanie Soebbing of Quilt Addicts Anonymous is the designer of the August block for the National Quilt Museum Block of the Month Club! Her challenge was to create a block that coordinated with The Van Gogh Cherrywood Challenge, on exhibit through August 8, 2018, at the Museum. She chose to recreate a portion of Van […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 August, 2018

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Learning to quilt feathers

Whenever I’ve had an inkling to learn a new quilting skill, I never start small. More often than not I decide I’m going to do it, and it is going to be king sized. That’s how I learned to paper piece, sew curved seams and triangles. Now I’m going to learn how to quilt feathers […]

Stephanie Soebbing

7 February, 2014

Loading up the frame

Last summer I spent a lot of time piecing and no time on the longarm, which means I have a backlog of tops in need of finishing in my sewing room closet. So I’ve resumed my monthly trips to Quilting By You in Bettendorf, Iowa, where I can rent time on a longarm machine and […]

Stephanie Soebbing

5 November, 2013

The Block a Day Challenge January winner is…

Hlberg! Hlberg was one of the first participants to join the Block a Day Challenge. In January she completed 33 blocks, 2 quilt tops and one quilt. She won three spools of variegated quilting thread. The prize for February is a copy of “Free-Motion Quilting Made Easy” by Eva A. Larkin. The book teaches you […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 February, 2012

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