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Pat Sloan: Quilted in Honor Challenge

Quilters LOVE a challenge and we LOVE to help our military.  

What better way to do both then to enter the "Giving Quilt Challenge" quilts for Operation Homefront. The quilts will be shown in Des Moines Iowa at AQS Quilt show. Your deadline to enter a quilt is  March 28, 2014.

 

With $15,000.00 worth of prizes being given away, AND you have a chance to support a wonderful charity... it's a fun way to design a new quilt!

 

The Challenge details at 

 

http://www.americanquilter.com/promos/2013_giving_quilt_challenge/index.php

 

and at the Island Batik Blog

 

http://www.islandbatik.com/news/index.php/quilted-in-honor-giving-quilt-challenge/

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Pat Sloan: Scrap Happy Sew Along ((Getting Organized))

Are you looking for my Moda Letter "P" Blog hop post? CLICK HERE.. then come back!

So many of us have scraps... and we love them and want to use them.. So let's get organized about it!

I find being organized REALLY makes me more effective when I sit down to sew. I like to have piles of each block so that I can chain piece like a mad woman!  ...  and I have way more fun this way!

For my Shoofly block I have enough 5" charm pack squares from Bobbins and Bits to do  30 blocks. This will give me a 5 x 6 setting for my quilt.  I didn't have enough white with black polka dots... so I added in other white with black fabrics to complete 30 sets of blocks.

I just might have searched online to see where I could find more white with black polka dots...   but that would not be in the spirit of 'scrap busting' to buy fabric for this quilt... sooo..

lukily I do have LOTS of black polka dot fabric.. thank goodness as I'm sure I would have had to buy that!

And then I created sewing sets. Oh my these make my heart skip a beat!  nice tidy sets all ready to rock and roll by the machine!

When I get a few blocks made I JUST HAVE to see how they will look.. do you do that? I can NOT wait to put them on the design wall. yippee... skippee... 3 blocks and up they go!

When I put them up there my Moda Blog Hop Pieced P was on the wall too....  It's the right colors.. so I thought.. mmmm.. what if I put a print on the left and right... and then made the "S" block... it could fit right into my quilt!

What do you think? should I do it?

CLICK HERE to read my first post and get the pattern for the Shoofly block

CLICK HERE for my Moda Letter P

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Pat Sloan: Quilts with fewer fabrics, Wood blocks, Applique and Quilting changes everything

Kathy Brown is going to chat about Quilts with fewer fabrics, Gina Reddin on Wood blocks, Patti Connor on her love of Applique and the American Patchwork & Quilting Editors on How Quilting changes everything

Be sure to CLICK HERE to catch up on my prior shows!

 

Kathy Brown from Teacher's Pet is so full of fantastic quilt ideas!  From patterns, to books to rulers to that get the job done, Kathy is always creating. Today we are going to talk about her books, her fun rulers and she has some super quilting tips to share.

www.the-teachers-pet.com

Gina Reddin is the designer behind Splinter and Threads.  I look forward to catching up with her at the shows because Gina always has something new going on! Last time I saw her, she was demoing wood block carvings for creating designs on fabric. They are so fabulous I just had to have her join me to tell you about them! 

http://www.splintersandthreads.com/

American Patchwork & Quilting Editors Jennifer Keltner and Jody Sanders share stories about how 'Quilting Changes Everything'.  

www.allpeoplequilt.com/

I was walking by Patti Connor's booth and just got drawn in, don't you love when a designers work does that to you? Patti is as delightful as her quilts and she has some pretty fun and nifty quilt tricks to share with us today!

http://www.samsarahdesignstudio.com/

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