Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: Picking Fabric for Quilts

I've waiting 4 weeks for today to be here. Why? Because this is the week I start a whole new set of quilts! And the first task is picking fabric. Does picking fabric make your hear race. Does it race in a GOOD way or ...mmmm.. a terrified way? Picking out fabric for projects has to be my all time favorite part of quilting. I quilt so I can play with fabric. I love to see how the different prints go together once I cut them up! I'm gathering fabrics from the shelves and laying them out for review The... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Thread color selections, Quilt stories, behind the scenes and a new type of quilt book

I love chatting with new to me designers. Nancy Rink has written a few books with history woven in, that is exciting to me! We'll learn all about that, plus I'm chatting with Jennifer Keltner at APQ to get the behind the scenes of making a magazine! CLICK HERE to catch up on my prior shows! Just sroll PAST the show description until you hit the "Disco Ball". Once that comes in the player is there! Don't know where the radio show page went on the magazine site after their new look? CLICK HERE for step by step photo directions!... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Quilts by YOU!

I LOVE happy mail with show and tell in it!! If you have made a quilt with my fabric or my pattern send me a photo! (my email is here on my blog on my photo on the top right Debra has been working to finisher her Brambleberry Friends this month with "Sew Every Day with Pat".. yeah! and her helper Gracie... love seeing your helpers! Then Debra sent me a photo of this amazing NEW quilter, Katy who is 7 years old! This is what Debra told me "Katy (my stitching friend's granddaughter) asked that I would send this... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Cooking for Quilters and Walking for Quilters

Cooking... Walking... Walking... cooking.. we need to do both if we want to SEW ALL THE TIME.. am I right? We want to eat great stuff and sew all the time. But we need to MOVE OUR BUTTs too. So it's a 3 part thing... Sew, Cook, Walk... Repeat In comes "Pinch of Yum" to my rescue! I LOVE Lindsay's writing, her cooking style and ... she has foods that are yummy, directions that are fantastic and is all around interesting to read... uh.. I mean cook with.... well I love her because you see this huge pile of goodies?... Read more →

Pat Sloan: A day in the life - Sorting Quilts

I started sorting quilts a few days ago... and this afternoon I was really starting to get a handle on WHAT I have.. and spent an hour more sorting... and I'll FINISH sorting today because I'm on a roll.. does that happen to you? Let's take a look... I am only on STEP ONE of this process, and that is to sort the quilts by Published in a book (30 books) Published in a magazine (published since 1998) Published in a by another publisher (several) Published in as a freebie (LOADS) Not Published (even more!) This is about 3/4 of... Read more →