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My stash was well beyond embarrassing. Not just the amount of fabric and projects I’ve accumulated in 15 years of sewing, but the stacks of bins just filled with fabric with absolutely no organization.

I needed to clear out the back room that my stash has been hoarded in for the past four years and I decided it was time to actually organize it instead of just move the mess.

I documented the process on TikTok and we have pulled all the videos together here so you can see me transform my fabric hoard from a flaming dumpster fire ...

From Courtney, our video editor:

In November 2022, my dad died. In the following months, I found myself in need of a project to process the anger, sadness, and loss I was feeling.

While going through his possessions, I realized how many T-shirts my dad had collected during his life. He had shirts dating back to the 1970s and my family and I had clear memories of them.

It became clear to me what I needed to do. I was not a quilter. I had pieced one-and-a-half quilt tops, but had not completed the process from beginning to end all ...

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 ...

Quilt Market came back for the first time since the pandemic started and it lined up perfectly with my daughter’s fall break, so I bought tickets for her first plane ride ever to bring her along with me.

Then I found out Quilts Inc, which hosts Market, has a minimum age of 14. Whoops! Thankfully they were super gracious and allowed us to come with media badges in exchange for vlogging the experience!

So you get to come along on the trip with us, as we experience flight delays, a late night drive across Texas, a trip to the ...

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 ...

It’s Small Business Saturday, so I thought I’d take a minute to chat about Quilt Addicts Anonymous, how we got to this point and why we’re going to focus on being an online store only going forward.

Like everyone we’ve experienced a lot of changes in the last two years, and have spent a lot of time evaluating how to manage growing a business while maintaining a work-life balance that allows us to be present for our two small kids.

I am really proud of what we’ve created at Quilt Addicts Anonymous. With your support ...

Today we’re giving you a peak into our everyday lives as my husband and I work round the clock alternating between taking care of our two small kids and running our business, Quilt Addicts Anonymous.

It’s constant work from 7 a.m. to midnight or later EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Right now we’re especially swamped because last week we got a shipment of fabric on a semi of my first fabric collection, Nocturne. We’re trying to get the orders shipped out as quickly as possible.

So enjoy, get a behind-the-scenes look, and know that we are working ...

My first fabric collection Nocturne is here! It showed up on a pallet on a semi yesterday. Yes, it is a massive order, the biggest we have ever made.

We are working on getting kits cut as we post this video, and will ship them out as we get them finished for everyone who pre-ordered. Once we make it through shipping all the pre-orders, we will open up sales again for everyone to grab the fabrics we ordered extra of.

So if you missed out on pre-orders, make sure you join the wait list for your favorite fabrics, kits and ...

I folded more than 70 quilts in one day a couple weeks ago as we were getting the new studio up an running and thought you all might enjoy seeing how I fold quilts of all sizes to fit my shelves perfectly.

In the video show you how I fold a lap and a bed sized quilt, both so that they end up the exact dimensions of your shelf so they can look fantastic displayed for all to see.

It really does look stunning when you see all your hard work stacked up with your pretty fabrics on display. It ...

I lost my sewing room!

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We wanted to move in 2020 to a house that is better suited for our family now that there are four of us, but like so much else last year, that just didn’t happen. Selling a House + Buying a House + Moving + Pandemic just didn’t sound like a good idea.

We’re still in the tiny two bedroom house my husband and ...

As of 5 p.m. last night Illinois is a shelter in place state and all residents are to stay in their homes and non-essential businesses are to close for two weeks starting tomorrow.

We got a heads up that this was coming late last Thursday night and immediately put into motion efforts that will allow us to keep shipping to you through this time. We turned on the cameras as we prepped to take you along with our journey.

Working in conjunction with our fabulous fabric manufacturers and distributors, we were able to place orders for the next month ...

We reached 50,000 subscribers on YouTube! We are so excited and grateful to you all who watch the videos and who say thanks by getting the supplies for your next quilting project from us. So we’re having a special sale to celebrate.

Now through Monday, February 10, 2020 you can get all five of our Block of the Month printed pattern books for just $25. That’s a $140 value! Plus, we thought we ran out of Burst, one of our most popular BOMs, but we found an extra box when we moved to our new location, so ...

Hello all! I figured with the baby coming soon and it might be fun to show you all a little behind the scenes look at what I do when I’m not sewing up a storm and creating all the YouTube quilting tutorials you all enjoy.

Last weekend I gave Lasagne Container Gardening a try, which is basically a fun term for planting spring bulbs in layers in a pot and then they are supposed to come up like an amazing colorful spring bouquet in a few months.

Depending on the size of your pot you can have two to ...