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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 Stashin’ with Stephanie time again! This month’s new fat quarter friendly pattern is inspired by this month’s featured fabric, Delilah by Esther Fallon Lau for Clothworks.

Cables was inspired by my love of knitting and fear of knitting cables. The classic stitch pattern look of crossing yarns is created in quilt form through careful placement of fabrics according to color value, so it is a great pattern for mixing low volume and dark prints.

The majority of the quilt is strip-pieced, making it a fast project. I got my lap-sized version done from start to finish ...

We’ve got just over a month until Valentine’s Day and that’s plenty of time to finish up all your projects to enjoy with a chocolatey treat on February 14!

To help you get motivated to quilt your creations, I’ve come up with a list of my top four Valentine’s Day quilting stencils from Full Line Stencil.

There’s a mix of easy and intermediate all over heart meanders, and a fun heart border that can take your quilting up a level. And they all look fabulous on Valentine’s quilts.

If you haven’t used ...

I love using Full Line Stencils to create quilting designs that I either can’t freehand or to help create consistently sized and spaced out motifs. We get both in today’s quilting tutorial featuring the Heart Border Stencil from Full Line Stencil.

I show you how to plan your border out, mark it and make sure the corner also looks fabulous. Then we get into the quilting where you get to see me quilt in real time on my home sewing machine.

The Heart Border Stencil is perfectly sized to fit in 4-inch borders, which is a very common ...

Everybody always loves a blooper reel and I love showing you all that I only look like I have it all together through the magic of editing.

But, it’s not just me who needs a little help, as Courtney, our video editor and Stephanie B., who answers all of your questions, also mess up from time to time.

Enjoy some of our most recent screwups!

We have the most adorable new modern fabrics to share with you this week.

First up is The Fae from Dear Stella. Design Rae Ritchie is so talented, we’ve had her collections before and you all have always loved them. She is inspired by images of the night, so there are lots of pretty moths, mushrooms and of course, sophisticated fairies that work for adults and kids.

Also from Dear Stella, we have Ready Thready Sew, a small line with some beautiful coordinates of sewing machines and notions. The soft color and modern designs are super cute, and I ...

Last fall we launched our Triangle Masterclass, a nine part video series that covers everything you need to know to improve your triangle piecing.

We have dedicated videos for sewing half square triangles, quarter square triangles or hourglass units, double pinwheels, four-at-a-time no waste flying geese.

Plus there are videos on how I sew the quilt block together so I don’t cut off any points, and my two-pinning method to get perfect points every time. Wrap it up by watching how I used rulerwork on my longarm to quilt triangles into the design as well.

The course is free ...

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 ...

Twinkle is one of my favorite patterns in my best-selling book Fat Quarter Workshop. It is a large scale block that features two colliding stars.

The design of the block makes it great for fabric collections that have a lot of low volume neutrals that don’t offer a lot of value contrast with the background. We use them in the center of the block and the darker fabrics as the star points to clearly define the block and all all the fabrics to shine.

The original fabric in the book quilt is long gone, but we thought Festive Fauna ...

The latest Kaffe Fassett Collective fabric has arrived! We’ve got the new Neptune and Mars colorways in all the pre-cut variations.

Kaffe Fassett is the name everyone knows, but not everyone is aware that it is actually three men – Kaffe, Brandon Mably and Philip Jacobs – working together to make the designs and then Kaffe colors the designs to make them all work together.

With so many creators, the lines often contain 70 or more fabrics, which is A LOT to bring in. So I ordered 16 of my favorite prints from the line to bring in as yardage and ...

We’ve got another Sew It Yourself video tutorial to share with you today on how to make a fancy apron that is perfect for hosting! It comes with a FREE pattern and we just added NEW kits.

Sew It Yourself is a new initiative from the Jaftex family of fabrics which includes FreeSpirit Fabrics, Henry Glass, Blank and Studio E. Their goal is to inspire sewists and give them the tools to be able to create something fabulous.

Stephanie Soebbing, the creator of Quilt Addicts Anonymous, is the host of the series and this project is super fun. This ...

When I started quilting in 2007, YouTube existed, but not in the capacity it does today. So I taught myself to quilt with a beginner quilting book, grocery store magazines and Love of Quilting on PBS.

All those are great, but not a great substitute for in-person learning or in-depth beginner quilting video courses like the one we created to cover all the basics that you just don’t know when you get started.

So I made A LOT of mistakes … like sewing a perfect 3/8 inch seam for a year-and-a-half because I didn’t know the standard presser ...

This week’s new arrivals are amazing! I cannot get over the rich beauty of Luminosity by Deborah Edwards for Northcott Fabrics.

The teals, dark blues and greens combined with gold metallic accents make it my favorite color palette of all time. Plus the butterfly and peacock feather images, with a beautiful panel are just gorgeous.

You absolutely will love the two prints where the design runs from one selvedge edge to the other. Both are just begging to be used in a special way, like borders or quilt backing.

And for something completely different we have Tutu Much Attitude ...

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We’ve reached the end of the T-Shirt Quilt video tutorial series! If you have kept up with us, then you are ready to quilt your T-Shirt Quilt. In today’s video I’ll be showing you how to mark and quilt straight lines using your walking foot on your home sewing machine.

If you have never layered and basted a quilt before, make sure to check out our video on ...

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In today’s video we finally get to go sew together our T-Shirt Quilt top! If you’re a longtime quilter, you may be able to skip this video. But if you are a newbie or don’t understand what the quilt assembly diagrams mean, then this video is for you.

First I cover how to add the sashing and cornerstone to the right and bottom sides of the quilt. Then ...

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In today’s video you will watch as I lay out my T-Shirt quilt and I talk through the strategies I use to make sure the colors and values are evenly distributed throughout the T-Shirt Quilt design.

The cheat sheet version, is you are going to want to first separate your T-Shirts into light (white and light gray), medium (most colors) and dark color values (black, very dark gray and some ...

Get the T-Shirt Quilt pattern for FREE when you buy T-Shirt quilt interfacing and an appliqué pressing sheet!

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In today’s video I am showing you how to add sashing and cornerstones to your T-Shirt Quilt. The sashing and cornerstones are a fun design element cut from quilting cotton.

The fabric allows you to tie the T-Shirts together with a central color theme, which gives the eye a place to rest in between all the T-Shirt designs.

The quilting cotton is also thinner than the T-Shirts with interfacing, so ...

Get the T-Shirt Quilt pattern for FREE when you buy T-Shirt quilt interfacing and an appliqué pressing sheet!

Shop T-Shirt Quilt supplies here: https://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product-category/t-shirt-quilt/

In today’s video we are going over how to fuse interfacing to the back of our T-Shirt quilt blocks. I demonstrate on two blocks, one that is fairly simple and one that has screen printing covering just about every open space, so you can see how to handle all kinds of T-Shirt designs.

This is my favorite step of the T-Shirt quilt making process. I love seeing how flat and ...

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In today’s video we will cut the sashing and cornerstones that will make up the fabric strips in between our T-Shirts. We are also cutting the interfacing that will stabilize our T-Shirts so they stay one size and don’t stretch while we’re sewing.

You’ll want to have your pattern with you for this step, as we have figured out exactly how ...

We’ve got another Sew It Yourself video tutorial to share with you today on how to make a fancy apron that is perfect for hosting!

Sew It Yourself is a new initiative from the Jaftex family of fabrics which includes FreeSpirit Fabrics, Henry Glass, Blank and Studio E. Their goal is to inspire sewists and give them the tools to be able to create something fabulous.

Stephanie is the host of the series and this project is super fun. This is not your basic apron. It is FANCY! There is a double skirt, gathers, patch pockets and tons of ...