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Pat Sloan What should I make during the Olympics?

The Olympics started yesterday, while I'm teaching in South Africa.

I may or may not have taken this awesome fabric from Makower with me.

I may or may not be doing some Hexies with it for handwork on the plane.

Maybe BIG hexies.

This is my favorite fabric in the bunch.  So I'm thinking of making it the center then hexie flowers around it in a border...

or maybe something else

...a design I can hand piece on the plane would be nice

will check with you when I get back and let you know what I did!

Pat Sloan Did I manage to get all the Quilt A Long blocks done?

Block 8 "play on the see saw"....

Do you remember the See Saw?  Was it your favorite item in the playground? Or do you have another favorite? I liked it because I could play 'with' a friend.  It was a partnership and it was fun!

 

Family portrait...

You can start to see how this will look.. lighter blocks all arond

I am right now in South Africa to teaching at the new show IQCAfrica show I'm taking LOTS Of photos and LOTS Of notes.. and even interviewing people so you can meet them when I get back!

Then I have 2 events in August. One in VA and one in CO. Will I see you there?

How are you blocks? Did you put them in the flickr folder so you can win some prizes?

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Pat Sloan Featured Quilters the Fat Quarterly Team part 2

Part 2 of my interviews with the Fat Quarterly magazine team! Three more members...

First let's meet John Adams. I love tweeting with John and finding him at a quilt show to spend some time with. Of course finding John is easy as he is about 6' 800" tall and you can spot him a mile away!

John was not available to answer questions.. so I just made them up for him!

I also had John on my radio show Nov 22,2010 CLICK HERE and scroll down to that show to listen!

What is the last piece of fabric you bought, and why?

Essex Linen for the background and a small scrap of Kona Snow (both by Robert Kaufman fabrics) for the cloud. John blogged this HERE

When did you last give away a quilt and to who?

I bet John gives those adorable children of his lots of quilts.. and his wife might just put in a few custom orders as well

What was the most difficult part about working on a book with three other authors?

Does this look like a man that has trouble working with others?

Do you have a favourite story about quilting... maybe something that happened online, with your local sewing group, on a trip?

I have a story about JOHN!! He is so generous.. that when I was hunting for a particular fabric he sent me his scraps! This quilt is John's Urban Decay.. yep.. a MANLY quilt!

Visit John at his site http://www.quiltdad.com/

Brioni Greenberg of Flossy Bossy makes amazing quilts...I have yet to meet her but hope I do soon!

What is the last piece of fabric you bought, and why?

Last piece was 4 yards of dark grey with tiny cream spots. I thought it would be a perfect background and I just need to decide what to use it for now!



When did you last give away a quilt and to who?.

I have the Hopscotch quilt in a bag ready to be sent off for Siblings Together. Siblings Together is a programme, created for young people in care, kinship and adoption. Sibling Together holiday camps reunite siblings whose lives are affected by care and adoption. Lynne of Lily's quilts is collecting quilts that will be given to the children at the camps. I have a little boy who we adopted who sadly won't be able to see his siblings so it's a subject close to my heart.

What quilt is on your bed?

At the moment I have the jewel box quilt from Issue 1 of Fat Quarterly on my bed at the moment. I think it's the favourite out of all the quilts I've made.

What was the most difficult part about working on a book with three other authors?

Seriously, nothing! It was a wonderful experience as we all communicate very well together.


Do you have a favourite story about quilting... maybe something that happened online, with your local sewing group, on a trip?

Probably my favourite story is about how I met Katy. I had been reading Katy's blog for a while one day I was ready her blog one day and she mentioned that she lived in the 'quilting wasteland of West Yorkshire'. I left a comment telling her that I also lived in the quilting wasteland of West Yorkshire. It turned out she lived 1/2 hour away from me and I had no idea.

On blogging ....no, I don't blog very often as with limited time I have to choose between blogging and quilting. Quilting wins every time!

Visit her low impact blog at http://flossyblossy.blogspot.com/

I saved Lynne Goldsworthy for last. She is the newest member of the Fat Quarterly team. Every time I start a chat with Lynne I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt.. she is THAT kind of gal!

Last Piece of Fabric:  

I bought Katy's FQ stack of Curio by Basic Grey which she'd been hoarding for some time waiting for the perfect project.  I'd been coveting it for some time and finally persuaded her to part with it so that it can sit in my stash waiting for the perfect project.  I had to make a deal with her that I would only take it off her hands if I was allowed to pay market value because otherwise Katy would just give it to me, as she is obscenely generous with her fabrics, and then I'd feel guilty and wouldn't be able to take it. 

Last gave away a quilt: 

My older sister gets most of my quilts and recently had a parcel of three sent her way.  A pink Paris swoon for her daughter, a Batman quilt for her son and my "theyoutube" quilt for her.  From day one she has followed my blog even though she has zero interest in quilting and mostly has no idea what I'm on about, just because she's kind.  So the bonus for her is that she pretty much has to like one of my quilts and she gets it.  She also got my favourite quilt of all, my Penguin Books quilt. 

quilt above blogged here.. Named Lynne Bob Square Pants.. yep!

Quilt on Bed:  

We have this absolutely colossal bed since we have four kids and when they were little there always seemed to be at least two sneaking in at some point in the night.  Anyway, that is my excuse for not having a homemade quilt on my bed.  I have a brick quilt made all in blue plaids which I absolutely adore and which my husband bought me for Christmas many years before I started making quilts myself.  I don't think I'll ever be able to make a quilt big enough for my bed on my domestic machine. 

Hexagon Park Blogged here

Writing with three others:  

Sadly I can't answer this question as I joined the team after their work on the book was finished.  I can say, however, that working with them running the retreat in London in June put an enormous strain on my stomach muscles.  I don't think I have ever laughed as much in the space of one weekend although I did spend the last few hours crying my eyes out because I was so sad it was ending.  Luckily we're already talking about our second retreat in London next year so I can start counting the sleeps until then. 

Story about quilting: (NOTE..this is where you see what I mean about the sides hurting... it may be a tad racy... so I'll let you click over to the photo yourself.. if you dare)

There have been a couple of occasions where I've worked hard on something, showed my husband what I've made and he's seen something completely different than I was intending to make.  For example, when making a doll quilt for one of the doll quilt swaps, I decided to add a stylish flash of colour to the centre of my quilt, showed it to my husband who pointed out that I'd actually sewn together some ladies parts.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilysquilts/5381716250/in/photostream. 

(LOOK AT YOUR OWN RISK)

And then I made an old fashioned UK letter box (mailbox) from Liberty of London fabrics for Ayumi Pink Penguin in the Ringo Pie bee.  I showed it to my husband and asked him what he could see.  Without any hesitation, he said "you've sewn a p*&*is".  http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilysquilts/5683615764/
(words disquised to ward off the spammers.. you should see this one. it's actually adorable.. expect for the image of the husband's comment in my head!)

Visit Lynne at http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/

My Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilysquilts/

My twitter (@lilysquilts) https://twitter.com/LilysQuilts

CLICK HERE to yesterday's post to read Part 1 and leave a comment to win the latest copy of Fat Quarterly!

 

Brioni Greenberg B