Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan - Let's get this Party STARTED!

Short and sweet

Are you ready to Party?

What will YOU finish this weekend?

Let's have some FUN today, tomorrow and even Monday if you are still sewing like crazy!

I'll be chatting in 3 places... share photos of your projects, what goodies you are eating, and the places you go this GREAT New Year's!

My List... what is yours?
1-borders on the RRCB
2-binding on heart
3-baste RRCB
4-fleece blanket (FAST ONE I hope)

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Pat Sloan - My UFO List

Holey Moley it's true confession time!

THIS is MOST of my UFOs and Wanna Starts!

In January I'll be blogging about how to get them under control.

But for now let's just pick 1 or 2 that you CAN finish over New Year's eve.. ok?  Sound easy?

Want to see my FULL List of started UFOs?

This is just my NON work quilts (work projects do not count... because I said so... wink!)

Basted/quilting and Tops
1.Aqua Heart – binding – at Joanne's for quilting
2.brown quilt used for demos
3.5 o'clock somewhere
4.flower block top
5.Seaside Applique Quilt
6.SL block swap
7.???? Big Hexagon Quilt Navy with hexes appliqued Where is this?

In Progress
1.simple stitches hand applique
2.Bunny hill basket blocks
3.Farmer Mistress
4.BOM with Jackie K.
5.seaside wool round robin
6.wool needle case kit
7.Halloween crooked cabins
8.OP quilt – needs flowers and borders 
9.Na-Na's Peppermints
10.rabbit round robin
11.China embroidery and also China single block from McCall's site
12.Red and grey churndash quilt – I have  more grey and red and hearts for corners
13.victory garden
14.dear jane quilt
15.nancy crow modern blocks
16.beaded blocks
17.Hexagons – pick a project to do with these.. maybe the spectacular garden
18.????? Pink flaming blocks WHERE are those?

TOTAL of my STARTED projects = 25

After New years I want to be able to stamp DONE on at least 2 of these babies!

What are you going to finish on New Year's? Did you tell me yet? (all detailss on my blog yesterday)

Anytime I blog about Finishing it UP (FIU) or UFOs.. you can find all the posts on the right side bar under the "Finish It UP" category... do you see it over there?

CLICK HERE to enter to win fabric from me.. you like fabric don't you?

Pat Sloan - New Year's Eve UFO Luau!

Are you ready for my New Year's

UFO Busting

Luau party!

Starting as soon as you wake up New Year's Eve

That is this Saturday incase you have been off the planet for awhile

... through New Year's Day (that would be the day after Saturday... depending on how many adult beverages you have on the 'eve' part)

.. well heck..

let's add Jan 2 as it's a day off for many of you and we might as well keep the party going!

 I've hosted many UFO Busting weekends... some on New Year's Eve.. but for this year we have a Double Twist
yes a Double!

The party once again has a "Luau Theme" courteous of the QuiltMashup Quilters!

CLICK HERE to Join/Read/Get in on my QuiltMashup group!

And On New Year's Eve I'm in the Stitchin' Heaven Twitter Party!
Which runs from 10pm to 12:30am central time on December 31!

Two parties in one night..

and ONLY on the internet can I attend both
AT THE SAME TIME!

So what's involved?

PRIZES!

How do you get in on them?

Hang at these places and watch for Prize notices....

QuiltMashup - CLICK HERE
Pat's Facebook CLICK HERE
Pat's Twitter CLICK HERE

Stitchen Heaven Twitter CLICK HERE -

What is needed for the Luau?
A FUN attitude!

The chatter... scheming... plotting ....planning is just starting today

Find a UFO to finish... or several!

Plan your snacks and share on my Facebook page or at my group

charge the camera batteries as we LOVE pictures during the luau weekend!

If you own a webcam or a video player.... go ahead and film yourself and share!  it's ok.. we'll only tell a few thousand of our closest friends..

Do you play the ukelee?  ... Own a Lei or have a grass skirt? Well get it out and put it on!! Take a photo and share... we know you want to!

Are you ready???

What will YOU finish this weekend?

Pat Sloan - Organize, Think, Plan, Fun

Organize

I spend a lot of time this week organizing my things.

A Clean slate and a tidy place for the new year..

do you do this?

Would you want me to teach you how to organize?

Think

I have followed Ali Edwards blog for a long time, and the last few years I've participated in her concept of a "Word of the Year".

One thing I have not done is hold that word through the whole year. I start out strong.. but lose track of it along the way.

Ali has a year long workshop at Big Picture Scrapbook that I signed up for. I want to keep my word with me all year and I think her prompts are just the thing to make that happen.

My word has not been decided...Ali has a list of potential words left in comments go HERE to read them. I'll pick mine by Jan 1... here are my words the last 3 years

2009 - Be Thankful (yes.. that IS two words)

2010 - Possibility

2011 - Travel

CLICK HERE for class info

Are you going to pick a word?

Plan

***Where can you get so much for just $10.00? Two patterns, a online workshop and a lot of fun? At my Patchwork Posse workshop!

CLICK HERE to sign up

***I'll be hosting monthly UFO busing events to "Finish It Up" in 2012

Follow on Facebook or my Quilt Group online Sign in to the quilt group so the most recent is first

Your assignment... make a list of the top 12 UFOs you want to bust... read my 12 UFO busting tips HERE

***Sew Alongs for my projects

I'll be hosting sew alongs all year long from my patterns, books, and maybe a freebie or two! To be hosted here at  my blog and at my Facebook page.

***Traveling to meet you!

 Would you like to take a inperson workshop with me? See my schedule and book me to come to your guild or quilt shop! Click HERE to my event page

 

Fun

Tomorrow I'll have details on my online UFO busting Luau Party and Twitter Party starting New Year's eve at my facebook page and quilt group!

Your Assignment.... find a UFO to finish New Year's Eve

MORE tomorrow!

Pat Sloan - Bloggers Block of the Month MY Block

December is MY month

during Jackie's Blogger Block of the Month!

Jackie sent us some fabric and we had to use the grey and as much of the other colors as possible.

let's make my block called "December Organization"

My sketch.

Cut 1 yellow 5" square

Cut 1 purple dot 5" square

Cut the 2 squares in half on the diagonal

Cut 2 strips of dark purple 1.5" x 14"

Cut 2 strips of grey 1.5" x 14"

Sew the HST block, press open

Trim both units to a 4.5" square

Alternate the dark purple and grey strips

Sew into a 4 strip unit

Press and subcut into 8 strips 1.5" x 4.5"

Following the photo alternate 4 strips

sew into a 4.5" x 4.5" block

Make 2 of these

Lay out the block into a 4 patch and sew

Trim to an 8.5" block

Download a copy of this page

My block was mailed to Jackie

here is my quilt using the "Circa 1934" fabric by Moda

My awesome friends at Moda sent me a charm pack

and some of the label fabric to giveaway!

I cut the labels fabric into 2 units ... I am giving away a charm pack/label prize and a label only prize, TWO prizes!

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Tell me your top goal for 2012, Winner picked New Years Eve!

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PS - There is a category on the right side called Bloggers Block of the Month

where each of these posts are grouped.

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Roll Call

September - Sherri McConnell - A Quilting Life

October - Vicki Welsh - Field Trips in Fiber

November - Stephanie Dunphy - Loft Creations

December(ME!) - Pat Sloan - The Voice Of Quilting

January - John Adams - Quilt Dad

February - Amy Smart - Diary of a Quilter

March - Allison Harris - Cluck, Cluck, Sew

April - Amy Lobsiger - Mrs. Schmenkmen Quilts

May - Cathy Underhill - Cabbage Quilts

June - Pam Vieira-McGinnis - Pam Kitty Morning

July - Victoria Findlay Wolfe - Bumble Beans Inc.

August - Amy Ellis - Amy's Creative Side

September - Sarah Fielke - The Last Piece

October - Jackie Kunkel - Canton Village Quilt Works

Pat Sloan - Season 3 American Patchwork & Quilting Radio - Encore

 

Today in an Encore at 4pm eastern of my show with Sherri Falls and Vanessa Wilson!

Sherri is part of the 2012 Aurifil Design team and Vanessa has been building a ton of new video content since you last heard my interview! Enjoy the encour at 4pm and then catch up on your missed shows!

Guest - Sherri Falls of This and That is an amazing designer. Her patterns are warm and cozy and everyone loves making them. On top of that Sherri is the nicest person you will ever meet and I'm so happy we've become friends

Website -www.thisandthatpatterns.com
www.thisandthatpatterns.typepad.com

 

Guest -I meet Vanessa Wilson of CraftyGemini when we chatted back and forth on a business list online. I've been following her work and I am delighted to have her on the show to chat about her design work and exciting news that she is one of the  $35,000 Youtube Next Up winners!

Website http://www.craftygemini.blogspot.com/

about the contest http://news.tubefilter.tv/2011/05/02/youtube-nextup-winners/

Nytimes story on Creative Camp -

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/business/media/30youtube.html?_r=1

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