Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: Heading to Mississippi, would you like to follow along?

I am heading to Mississippi for 6 days of teaching quilting! This is my first time to teach in the lovely state and I'm pretty darn excited! If you are reading this in your email notice, click the banner or SEE MORE to come view the slideshow at my article. While on this trip I am sharing a ton of photos and you can follow along, see what I find and leave me comments! If you want to start the slide show over, refresh your screen, or view them directly by coming HERE This is the event I'm teaching at,... Read more →

Pat Sloan: A little of THIS and That.. fun fun!

Did you get my newsletter the other day? No? Read it online HERE and Subscribe HERE Are you like me.. sometimes we need to forget about that fantasy vacation! We can treat ourselves to a Craftsy’s Summer Closeout! You’ll find the amazing supplies you’ve been dreaming about at some incredible prices, but not for much longer! this IS a summer closeout... so put down the to-do list; it's time to go shopping this incredible sale is tick, tick, ticking away! Are you on Instagram? Do you tag me when you share photos of my fabric or projects? here are a... Read more →

Pat Sloan: What traveling project do you have, this is mine

Do you find that sometimes you did something that you enjoyed a lot, then for some reason, you notice you are no longer doing that 'thing'? Maybe it's taking walks, or relaxing on your porch after dinner. Maybe it's taking time to sew 10 minutes a day and recharge your creative batteries. What I noticed is that somehow I seemed to have stopped having a handwork project 'at the ready'. I used to needleturn or embroider all the time. Did some EPP work too. But somehow those projects got moved or put away or are not in a 'ready state'... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Little Joy's Free Pattern Sew along - limited time Last block!

Did you decide to be as CRAZY as me and join the Fat Quarter shop's sew along?? Yes?... well good... let's go sew! It's time to make the Present Block named Season of Giving.... At the end is the link to the LIMITED time free pattern .. so download it now! I want to update you since the last post, I've been using this ruler for everything to give it a good work out, and I still give it a thumbs up! I am going to change out to some of the other sizes, I like it better than the... Read more →

Pat Sloan: New Series - Inspiration Look Book....Color me Green

I have been thinking about this for a long time, and Inspiration round up, or look book concept. In the course of any day I see a lot of images, and it's fun to search out photos by color or theme. My new series of articles is called 'Inspiration Look Book' and I created a category on the right sidebar so you can find them all. Let's start with my own photo of incredible vintage and not so vintage, textiles I bought. I have this colorway on my table to do something with! All the following photos are from flickr... Read more →