Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan What to do with it.. what will you do?

My first line of fabric with Moda, "Eat your Fruits n' Veggies", arrived in your quilt shops at the end of November. Right about the time you started doing all your holiday shopping. Now that we are all back to our regular quilting schedule (you are ... right? ... ok good!)... I thought this would be a great day to share with you some of the projects I've made with my fabric collection! Meet "Orchard Park". I had every intention of taking this outside to photograph in the snow. Because it's our first snow yesterday, and I thought it would... Read more →

Pat Sloan Show and Tell see my Alphabet!

I'm working on that final list of my UFOs from my First UFO busting tip. The KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE (click here to read Tip1). They have all been pulled, a list has been made, and now I'm in the process of figuring out if I want to keep all that I have. That's the hard part. As you know I've done this before... about every 2 yrs. So that mean the pile is 'smaller' but not small. And I mostly love most of it.. BUT .. there are a few I might not love as much as I did... Read more →

Pat Sloan Look at how Sassy Turned out

You have all waited so paiently (well SOME of you waited patiently) for me to create the final pattern for the 2012 Aurifil Designer of the Month stitchery blocks! The challenge was to use Sherri Fall's basic sketch and this one Layer Cake of "Sassy" by Sandy Gervais for Moda to set the blocks. Yes.. just ONE layer cake.... The designers all used a cream solid for the stitchery and then bits of whatever they wanted from their layer cake, not MY layer cake. Mine is intact. Just an FYI as the designers used a lot of the Turquoise so... Read more →

Pat Sloan Bag Mania, stem tips, Big Block love and Trends!

Guest - Fabric designer, Author and the inventor of 'Polka Dots" and 'appli-glue' is Jill Finley of Jilliy studio. I love Jill's deep saturation of color in her fabrics and quilts, she love words on quilts like I do and has some great appliqué tips for us today! Website http://www.jillilystudio.com/ Buy Jill's book at my Amazon link HERE Guest - Lisa Lam of the UK is mad about bags! She is the author of the "The Bag Making Bible" and "A bag for All Seasons". Lisa is chatting bags with me all the way from England. I'm really looking forward... Read more →

Pat Sloan Where do You find Inspiration?

I am always blown away by what inspires me... and what inspires others. I am somtimes inspired by something as simple as how my jewelry looks when I take it off. I took off this off the other day.. then I was talking to Gregg and pushing the shapes around until this layout was developed. I love everything about this.. the words (word obession HERE) and the colors of silver and copper and brass. When in a local restaurant (anyone know WHICH ONE?) I was fascinated by the tiles in the ladies room! So RETRO.. deep oranges... it actually glowed... Read more →