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Echoed Swirls are my new favorite free motion quilting stitch!

The stitch is exactly like it sounds, a swirl with one or two echoes around it. But this simple stitch really elevates the look of the swirl, making any quilt you use it on look super fancy.

Usually I use it as a background filler, so this is the first time I’ve used is as a allover design and I absolutely love it! The texture it creates is amazing and really made my Pixelated Blooms quilt look beautiful.

In this video I show you how to stitch the allover ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...

This month’s new fat quarter friendly pattern is inspired by this month’s featured fabric, Wishwell Prairie Song by Leslie Tucker Jenison for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

This is the third time we’ve featured a Wishwell collection for Stashin’ with Stephanie, and it has sold out every time. The bold, digital prints in a graffiti-like texture and rich colors are always a stunning combination.

I developed Sound Waves to highlight this stunning modern fabric. The pattern uses an entire fat quarter with no waste, so it’s great for quilters who don‘t like leftovers at the end of ...

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 ...

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!

OK, so I talk a big game about how there is a big difference between the quality of fabric you can buy at a quilt shop like Quilt Addicts Anonymous and chain stores. So we figured it was time to put it to the test.

I sent my team to JoAnn Fabrics to pick 10 quilting fabrics. Then they blindfolded me and tested whether I could tell by feel alone if I was holding chain store fabric or quilt shop quality fabric.

Check out the video to see how I did. Then go shop our buy four, get the fifth ...

Today I’m showing you how I used straight line quilting on the longarm to quilt Subway our latest Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt design.

I also tell you why I will use a ruler 100% of the time over channel locks in order to get perfectly spaced straight lines when quilting on my longarm.

If you don’t have a longarm, don’t worry. You can absolutely quilt straight lines on your home sewing machine using a walking foot. I think it was the perfect choice for this quilt because it is utilitarian, but also chic and modern, just like ...

It’s Stashin’ with Stephanie time and that means it is time for a brand new fat quarter friendly pattern release! Learn more and join here: https://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/stashin/

I am so excited about this month’s featured collection, Glyphs by e bond for FreeSpirit Fabrics. The modern, graphic line is striking and looks absolutely fabulous outlined by the white background in the subway tile layout.

The pattern is made with lots of strip-piecing, which makes it fast, easy and beginner-friendly. It also does a great job of showing off the fabrics without anything looking too busy.

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It’s Stashin’ with Stephanie time! That’s when I design a new fat quarter friendly pattern inspired by our latest fabric collection we shipped to our subscribers!

Afternoon Picnic is inspired by all the lovely modern and bright fruits in More Pie by Dana Willard for FIGO Fabrics. It is the perfect quilt for anyone who loves half square triangles, or wants to be able to practice them to get better.

The entire quilt is made up of HSTs, grouped together by color to form a quilt block. The result is a straight forward, easy-to-sew layout, with a design ...

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Ultraviolet Quilt Drop

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#SHORTS

Ultraviolet Quilt Drop

Join Stashin’ with Stephanie: https://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/stashin-with-stephanie-2/

Products we used:
Ultraviolet PDF pattern: https://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/ultraviolet-pdf-download/
Ultraviolet quilt kit (limited quantities): https://shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product/ultraviolet-quilt-kit-lap-sized-featuring-art-theory-by-alison-glass-for-andover/

Sometimes you’ve got to get a quilt done FAST, and that was the case with Ultraviolet our latest Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt. I lost half a day to a surprise root canal and had to scrap my original plans for a super custom finish.

But I was able to create some fabulous texture both in the diamond blocks and the background pieces by creating some radiating wavy lines.

In today’s vide I show you how I outline the block using rulerwork, use piecing to create evenly spaced wavy lines and travel to the next block when your quilt ...

I know what you’re thinking … that’s a lot of little diamonds. But guess, what, we’re strip piecing this baby and you don’t have to cut a single tiny diamond!

For Ultraviolet, this month’s Stashin’ with Stephanie pattern inspired by this month’s Alison Glass Art Theory bundle, we are using offset strip piecing to create 60-degree pieced diamonds.

By placing the fabrics strategically from light to dark we are able to create a really cool effect when all the diamond blocks are assembled with NO Y-seams!

In this month’s tutorial I not only show ...

This month’s Stashin’ with Stephanie pattern is my favorite kind of pattern … one that looks complicated, but is pretty simple and fast once you break it down.

This month we are using offset strip piecing to create vertical strip pieced rows that look like they are forming a “V”. The result looks a little like a feather or books being opened, both of which work with the collection theme Bookish by Sharon Holland for Art Gallery Fabrics.

I was an English major in college, and am constantly reading stories to my girls and listening to adult books on Audible ...

We are working with one of my favorite fabric designers for this month’s Stashin’ with Stephanie quilt. Pippa Shaw with FIGO Fabrics just came out with Grow, which is packed with bold colors and, you guessed it, motifs that remind you of working in the garden.

This is our third time featuring Pippa Shaw in Stashin’ with Stephanie and her fabrics are always a hit with you all as well. Her use of color is fantastic and she does a great job of combining the hero prints with some fabulous coordinates that help the main prints stand out.

In ...