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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 ...

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/

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Use the coupon code TSHIRTQUILT to get the pattern for FREE when you buy an appliqué pressing sheet and T-Shirt quilt interfacing from us!

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

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 ...

Use the coupon code TSHIRTQUILT to get the pattern for FREE when you buy a 12.5-inch square ruler and T-Shirt quilt interfacing from us!

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

It’s time to actually start working on our T-Shirt Quilts now that we have gathered all the supplies. Today I’m going to go over how to cut the T-Shirts so they look fabulous in your finished quilt.

I show you how to cut the shirts down the sides and shoulder seams to ensure you have plenty of room to cut a 12 ...

Professional quilter, online fabric store owner and antique sewing machine hoarder reacts to the season finale of “Is It Cake” on Netflix where contestants make realistic objects out of cake to see if the judges can tell if it is real … or cake!

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A couple years ago we put out one of the first video tutorials on how to make a jelly roll rug and you guys went crazy for it. It has nearly 240,000 views and is one of our most popular videos of all time.

Since then I’ve made LOTS of Jelly Roll Rugs, so we put out a new tutorial that combines all the tips and tricks I’ve learned along the way.

We’re sharing it again today so you can learn how to keep it super flat without pressing the bejesus out of it only to ...

It’s the weekend, which means we’ve got some new quilty goodies to share with you.

First up is Bio Geo 2 from Adrienne Leban for FreeSpirit Fabrics. When Bio Geo 1 came out last year, it legit sold out in less than a day and the sequel is just as amazing!

The zentangle designs combined with bold color choices make it absolutely stunning. Its is a must have for your fabric stash.

Then we have not one, but two new split nine patch kits that you can use with our Beginner Quilting Series. It’s a completely FREE ...