Pat Sloan's Blog

When people just GET you....

Isn't it the BEST when your friends, family, co-workers just GET you? They KNOW what will tickle you pink....???

The other day on my swap group at yahoo we had some major Music Mayhem chatter.... it was TOTALLY silly and SO FUN! My main 'thing' was to express my LOVE for Elvis... this was NOT being meet with my same enthusiasm until some of my silent members had to jump in to SUPPORT me before I banned everyone from the list.. LOL!!!

Well a few days later I got this package in the mail

This is from Marilyn... and she wrapped it in music note fabric with lovely ribbons and bits of fabric....

And LOOK what was inside.. just LOOK!!!.... Elvis INSPIRATION QUOTES!!! Now Marilyn KNOWS me as not only do I love Elvis... I love quotes EVEN MORE!!!

So if you start to see some Elvis love at the end of blogs.. you will know why...  Like this pearl ...

"I don't think its right for a fellow to dress loud.  On the street that is.... On the STAGE, I want to STAND OUT... The louder my clothes, the better" ... Elvis

You just NEVER KNOW...

You just NEVER KNOW what you will find when you pop open an email... I got a note from Roseann yesterday and what do you think was inside? A link to THIS

WOW .. THERE is my BOOK!!!!  on NBC NEWS!!!! Augusta NBC..but STILL.. wow wow wow!!!

Now I feel SO FAMOUS... I'm emailing all my friends today with this link... emailing the awesome shop owner Kathy Mullis who has bravely opened a NEW store, and kissing the ground of all the lovely quilters out there who buy my things.. BIG SMOOCH to you!!

Watch the video HERE

Read Margaret's blog about the store Quilt Shop on the Corner

And find my book, which I'll autograph, at my webstore HERE!!

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I had a suggestion that I do some videos of my George Sewing machine 'in action'... stay tuned.. it's coming soon!

On Monday I'll have my Feb newsletter out

On Tuesday I'll have another 'The OP' blog to give you some tips on what to put WITH your orange pile of fabric.. and by the way I'm seeing LOVELY piles of orange all OVER the place!

Cruise the Caribbean - part IV

It snowed... it drizzled and covered the snow in a sheet of ice... the sun has not been out for a few days.. what does this make me do?

Why Look at my cruise photos of course!  Here we are docked at sint.maarten, the dutch side of the island.  I'm ready to head to the beach across the way to sit out under the orange umbrella's all day!

Our spot for the day. We rented the chairs and umbrellas from the same guy who was there last year. Miguel... he has done this for almost 30yrs!  Next time I'll make a photo with him!

 

What we looked out at... so peaceful

the town.... now doesn't he look out of place? I guess he worked in one of the shops, but not the surf shop.. hehe!  We had AWESOME hamburgers and shrimp from this place... yummmmmm

A NICE watering hole I'd like to go to right now!

Learn more about St. Maarten http://www.st-maarten.com/

Color Institute

Not orange.. but close!

From the Washington Post Newspaper -

The people vote for change, and color company Pantone delivers.

By choosing Mimosa, a champagne-and-orange-juice shade of yellow as the 2009 color of the year, Pantone promises hope, joy, optimism -- sentiments to match the new U.S. president's oft-spoken words.

"Yellow is the color of change, of hopefulness, of warmth and of good cheer," says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute. Pantone provides color standards widely used in most design industries, and the Color Institute is its research group.

Read the whole article at the Washington post!

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And I am VERY EXCITED to announce that I am now an APQS George Sewing machine dealer! You know that FABULOUS quilting machine you see on my webcam?? Yep.... I can get one to you in no time at all!!

I'm in the process of getting a page up on my website.... The Shipping Guy got one on the webstore HERE, just email me at pat@patsloan.com if you want to know more.

And if you want to meet me and test drive one I'll be at DA SHOW in Chicago, Pittsburgh quilt trade show, Longbeach CA, and Festival in Houston! Get the links at my Workshop page HERE

B4... and Snowflakes... some Quilts by YOU!

 Ahhh... you just NEVER KNOW what the 'shipping guy' is going to do!

Well Yesterday he loaded a 'B4' Sale? What is a 'B4' sale you ask? 

Well I didn't get it... but maybe you will ... if you DO.. then tell me in the comments that you 'get' the shipping department humor ... make him feel good... hehe!!

Go HERE TO see the SALE!

And... we still have a FEW DAYS left for you to finish your snowflakes in 'I Believe'. 

I find it very interesting that both blocks of these gals used a peachy background!

Blocks from Lina and Mary!

Way to go!

ps - Which block do you want to do next?? List your choice in the comments and See the QUILT HERE

The 'OP'

"Your mission, should you decide to accept it..."

The 'OP' Challenge

The 'Orange Pile' ... yep... we are gonna use some Orange BaBY!!!

From Friday Feb 20 to Sunday night Feb 22 I am going to host a VIRTUAL RETREAT... woot!

Have you been on one of my Virtual retreats yet?

If you have then you KNOW we have fun!

We do a blog hop, have prize giveaways, post photos of work in progress, and I have a tutorial here at 'Da Blog'.

In order to prepare for our ChaLLEnGE.... do the following

• Snag the small button below and put on your side bar
• Invite as many quilt friends as you can to our Virtual Quilt Par-tay... as some prizes will need lots of comments.. so the more at the Par-Tay the better!
• Collect up ALL your CURRENT orange fabric and show me a picture.. on your blog, at my yahoo group or my Facebook quilt group
• Before the 20th I'll post a few more challenge steps to get you ready for the event.. it will be worth it!

Small logo for your side bar

Click HERE for My Facebook Quilt group called Pat Sloan's Place

Send me a FRIEND request at Facebook - Pat Sloan

CLICK HERE for my Yahoo group

Thank you to all who are going to be officially 'hopped to' during the retreat! They will be giving away awesome prizes.. so fun! I've got enough people now... so we'll do it again!

And SOME of my orange fabric ...

PS - some of you had asked a few questions about the 'Business of Quilting'... see yesterday's post below