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Did you try something new in October? The challenge was to try a new technique, ruler, use a color palette that you don’t typically use, or anything else new to you.

I tried making clamshells. One of my quilty friends has been showing progress on a clamshell quilt she is making and I could not resist trying one of my own. There is a big difference between hers and mine though. She is making big clamshells with the Clammy Ruler and mine are just a little bitty four-inches. I love her quilt and love curved piecing so thought it ...

Pixelated Blooms is a very fun strip-pieced pattern that will allow you to bust your stash.

Follow the color combinations in the pattern when selecting fat quarters to create a square flower, or pull 2 1/2-inch strips from your stash to make it super scrappy in any color combination.

The techniques used are not hard, but you will want to label your pieces for a smooth finish.

This stash-busting pattern is part of the Stashin’ with Stephanie series, where Quilt Addicts Anonymous founder Stephanie Soebbing releases a new fat quarter pattern each month. Learn more at this link: https ...

Today’s post checks two boxes–completing the June Challenge and also a Friday Finish! The June Challenge was to finish a solid quilt or use some solid stash. 

Remember this stack of Boundless fat quarters?

I turned it into a Reflection quilt. It worked fairly well, but some of the grays are almost black and others are almost white so the blocks have a lot of contrast. It also did not photograph well because of the hazy sky. 

I used a pantograph called Fandango for the quilting. It is an easy design that quilts up quickly and looks good ...

There’s nothing better than an easy pattern that looks complicated. That‘s what you get with 18 Carat Revisited.

The blocks for this quilt are created by slicing up half square triangles to create the angled strips that make up the spiky block design.

This pattern is a re-imagined version of 18 Carat, which creates the same block using a 10-inch square pack.

18 Carat Revisited has been resized to use up just about every inch of a fat quarter, so it’s a thrifty way to bust your stash or use up your favorite fat quarter bundle.

I ...

Hello Quilty Friends!  I have no business playing in the fabric stash.  There's way too much to do but what the heck.  I haven't been able to play in the Studio for days.  I deserve a few minutes of fabric petting before the day begins.

I had exactly one day to quilt Celestial, our latest Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt. So I needed a quilting design that was both fast, and would do justice to the spectacular diamonds throughout the quilt. I ended up with something I lovingly called the Wavy Line Special.

I followed the shape of the diamonds to quilt five wavy lines inside of each diamond in the quilt blocks, and seven inside each of the background diamonds. It was super fast and easy with just a little bit of rulerwork to travel in the diamonds.

The result was being able to quilt ...

This month’s new fat quarter friendly pattern is inspired by this month’s featured fabric, Zen by Sue Zipkin for Clothworks.

Celestial is one of my favorite types of quilt designs, one that looks way more complicated than it actually is. The blocks are assembled using strip piecing and no Y-seams, so the quilt top comes together very quickly.

The original is made with specific placements of fabrics to create the beautiful color change that is repeated in each block. But it could also be made scrappy.

A 60-degree triangle ruler with all three points, like the Clearview Triangle ...

Singularity, our latest Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt design, featured large sections of negative space that were just begging for some fun quilting.

I know that negative space can sometimes be intimidating because as a quilter we feel pressure to do something super fancy in it. But I chose echoed swirls to fill the space with a fun, modern texture that looks great but wasn’t too difficult.

I love using quilting stitches that are very different in the background versus the piecing to help separate the two spaces. So I chose some simple rulerwork in the triangles to help accent ...

For this Friday Finish I have three projects to share with you!

Number 1: Origins

This is the finished quilt from the quilt along I started in January. The pattern is from Lifting Limits Quilting and is available here. I like the quilt because the construction is super simple and these were fun fabrics. The spring-like colors cheered me up over the winter. It is a very easy pattern with unique piecing instructions. Hint: when the directions say “label the strip sets,” then be sure to label the strip sets. You will NOT remember which is which. Ask me how ...

The Celebrate chunk of the month quilt

If you are on my email list you got the first look at The Celebrate Quilt in Saturday’s newsletter. This is a free 12-month program, but instead of making a block every month, we will make a “chunk” of the quilt. Each month, there will be a 12-inch block and some small filler blocks. When all the chunks are complete, they will fit together like a puzzle to make a 54″ x 66″ quilt. If you want a larger quilt, you can add borders or make extra blocks some months. I will ...

This month’s Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt design, Cables, was inspired by my other crafting love … knitting. Since the design resembles a knitted cable pattern, I thought it was only appropriate that I carry the knitting theme through to the quilting as well.

I created a 1-inch square “V” stitch to mimic the look of the stockinette knitting stitch, where all the knit stitches are on the right side and all the purl bumps are on the wrong side.

This is a very easy stitch to master and it doesn’t matter if they are all perfect, because in the ...

It’s Halloween Week at Quilt Addicts Anonymous! We’ve got all our fall prints in and we wanted to share the new goodies and some inspirational projects you can totally finish by October 31st of THIS YEAR!

First up is a remake of Dot Dash, a pattern from my third book Fat Quarter Patchwork Quilts. We did a version of this in Halloween fabric last year and you all loved it. So we made an adorable digital version in Ghost Town by Dana Willard for FIGO Fabrics.

Dot Dash just does such a good job of showing off pretty ...

This first sample was made by our friend Reneta and she did the X's and O's layout ...