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Pat Sloan: Sew Along - Never Enough Chocolate A Top

I was really curious what the Aqua and Red blocks would look like and the best way to find out? Finish that top!  So when I got back from the trade show I started to sew 10 minutes a day and get the middle done... 

What inner border should I use?
I asked YOU... and got about a 50/50 response.. 

So I used the Tone on Tone and I'll bind in the polka dot.

So what about that Blue/White option?

Here are the blocks. I really want this to be larger.

I'm making it for one of the men folk in my family.

So I'm challenging myself to use

---ONLY stash

--mostly dark blue and cream.. no other colors

--and NOTHING with  flowers

DO YOU KNOW how hard this is? I will have depleted my entire 'navy-non-flower'

stash when this is done. 

Here are more blocks 'at the ready' so I can just sew for 10 minutes.. 

I'm crazy about playing with this quilt again... it's so fun and fast!

• Buy your pattern (HERE) and pick fabric, Maybe make it Scrappy? see my auditions HERE and HERE ... so many options right? and one more post HERE 
• Block 1 Sew Along post HERE
• Share your fabric at my Facebook Group, My Flickr Pool, or at my Online Quilt Bee

Click the photo above OR CLICK HERE to go to my new Digital Store, where I have a LOT Of photos!

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Pat Sloan: Missie Carpenter, Joan Ford, Amanda Murphy and Roseann Kermes join me!

For Memorial Day we are running an encore of this fantastic show! 

CLICK HERE to my player and scroll back to June 10, 2013

I was delighted to meet Missie Carpenter of Hallbrook Designs earlier this year. She makes incredible appliqué and english paper pieced quilts using warm inviting colorways with lots of tans, browns, reds and blacks. Her workmanship is beautiful and I am excited to have her here today to talk about how she creates! http://www.hallbrookdesigns.blogspot.com/

 

I can't get enough knowledge about how people work with fabric scraps. Joan Ford is the author of 2 scrap quilt books AND the developer of 'Scrap Therapy'. So I had to have her on the show to share her thoughts behind scrap management and how to use them in quilts.  http://hummingbird-highway.com/

 

Amanda Murphy is a graphic designer that has turned her art in to fabric, embroidery designs and quilts. I am excited to have her share her design process and tell us a bit about her new book Modern Holiday. Website: www.amandamurphydesign.com

 

It is always fun when Roseann joins me on the show! Today we dish on easy summer sewing when we TRAVEL!! ... http://rosebudscottage.typepad.com/

 

CLICK HERE to listen to the June 10, 2013 show NOW on the player!

 

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Pat Sloan: American Made Tour.. Virginia!

I am so delighted to be a part of the American Made Brand Blog Hop. Celebrating the new Solid fabrics from Clothworks made here in America!

This blog tour is celebrating all things made here in the USA,

with 50 bloggers

representing 50 states

and hosting 50 giveaways!

CLICK HERE to learn more about the fabric!

I've visited about 3/4 of the states, and I've lived in 4 states (some more than once). Plus I've lived in two other countries besides the USA.  

My family lived in 8 different homes during my growing up years. After I left home I lived in 8 more homes.  That is 16 different spots to call 'Home'.

When Gregg and I moved to Virginia we never assumed we'd stay here. I love new places and love the adventure of moving (yes.. really I do)...But somehow, we never left. I've been here about 30 years and Virginia is now my home.

So many people we meet on travel tell us they LOVE Virginia. It's so GREEN they say... and really it is. We have all the seasons and MOST years it's not too cold or snowy in the winter. But the summers can be wicked humid.

And I do believe we have the most amazing number of days of sunshine (except this year.. but hey.. whose counting... cough... cough...)

I am in Northern Virginia just outside Washington DC. It is very busy here and I have a LOT of neighbors.. over 1 million in MY county alone.. the same in the counties near me. 

But being very Urban doesn't stop us from enjoying all the good things in life, like being city farmers.. ha!! We have a real farm with baby animals and a active 4-H just 10 minutes from my home.  And my neighbor has chickens (yep!). Plus we see fox and deer trotting through my yard. 

My favorite slogan of ANY state is the Virginia Tourism Slogan "Virginia is for Lovers".  I went on Ebay and bought some vintage bumper stickers.. it was SUCH fun to find them!

There are loads of things 'Made in Virginia'.. but one you might not guess is that the Mars Company has their headquarters in the next town over from me!  CLICK HERE to read an interesting little article about the company. 

Another thing you might not know is that Virginia is one of the top states for personalized plates... HELLO quilt plates! This IS my license plate.. no photo-shopping.. it's the REAL DEAL.... mushed bugs and all.

PLUS we have a Quilt Museum!! CLICK HERE to learn more about it

  For the blog hop I decided to create a personalized license plate just like my own for the hop.  I added a home with a heart, as I have finally found my spot here in Virginia.. plus the beautiful dogwood bloom, they were spectacular this year!

JUST incase you don't want to use my name.....  I have given you the letters for Virginia or just creating a cute dogwood block.

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Click HERE to download my Virginia Plate Pattern

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This is day 5 of the tour, be sure to go visit the first 4 days, then continue for the next 4 weeks visiting Mon - Friday! EVERY stop leave a comment for a chance to win one of the 50 bundles to be given away!

The schedule is here for all 50 states  http://americanmadebrand.com/blogtour/

All the license plate blocks will be going back to Clothworks Fabric and put into an AMAZING quilt.. I can not WAIT to see it! This is Candice from Clothworks who created all this great fun!

Now for the Giveaway!

Since this is Friday and it's a Holiday weekend here in the US, I will select a name NEXT WED evening May 28.

I have TWO prizes to give away 

A FQ Bundle of American Made Brand Solids from Clothworks 

and this yummy prize of M&Ms, A vintage sticker AND ALL my leftovers!

Leave me a comment telling me....

What would YOUR Personalized License plate SAY?

or what DOES it say?

AND if you want a second change, sign up for my newsletter on the right side bar then leave a second comment telling me you did! (or that you already get it!)

WINNERS ARE

Clothworks FQ Bundle to Barbie who wrote -

"NVR BRD" Never bored. It's a little joke between my husband and I in reference to having 9 kids. ;) I don't know how much my hubby would appreciate driving around the mini van with a quilting referenced license plate. I already added a crazy cat lady with a dozen cats vinyl decal to the back window just for fun. He doesn't think it's as funny as I do.

and MY prize to Kristin who wrote -

"I've always wanted vanity plates but I've never actually gotten a set. For a long time I wanted my military nickname, "Spoons" on there. (A 'Spoon' is a cook in the Army.) Really excited about these American Made fabrics."

 

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