Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: Fall Round up plus some adorable free pattern links!

Round up time! I spotted some adorable fall things to share today! A bit of fabric, plus several free patterns you might want to try! The Precuts of the weeks are FALL! I love these crazy owls.. there are other options too, take a look HERE Have you checked out the Aurifil Thread club? It's a great way to collect colors. All the Details HERE So many of you have asked about the Ladybug sewing caddy, similar to the owl one that I got. The sewing caddy is HERE and check out the ring pincushion too .. squeal!!!! it's SO... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Chatting wool, entering shows, designing and More!

ITUNES subscription available - Subscribe HERE MY Podcast Guest List! GET the APP to listen on your Android *** Free patterns & Tutorials from my guests Thelma Childers, Elea Lutz, and Becky Goldsmith at the end! Thelma Childers is an amazing quilter who travels, makes award winning quilts, and cuddle up quilts. She writes about all of this at her inspiring website Cupcakes 'n Daisies. I wanted to hear about her lastest quilt Coastal Lily that is on the front of the 2016 AQS Caldendar, and hear a bit about her famous Red and White Tribute quilt. cupcakesndaisies.com Elea Lutz... Read more →

Pat Sloan: What are you saving it for?

When I was teaching at Sewingly yours in North Carolina the other week I bought some fabric, because I'm a quilter, and I need it... but I digress! When I got home I started to ponder my fabric. These are mostly from designer Cori Dantini, and I might be buying everything she does. (get this fabric online here) I might be hoarding it... um... saving it. Saving it for JUST the right project. Then I realized, I have a lot of fabrics 'Saved' for the right project. A few have been saved SO LONG that I may not actually.. ummm...mmmmm..... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Time to be a MatchMaker, a Moda Matchmaker!

Sometime a new tool comes in and it's so exciting, amazing and USEFUL I need to tell you right away! The Moda Matchmaker is here! So what is it? It's a swatch set of all the Moda Bella Solids in a great storage case. Let me show you on my video. Please subscribe to my videos HERE at my channel Let me give you some closeups This is the screw that holds all the swatch pages in the holder If you want to spread them out, which we will want to do, you remove that and use the swatch pages... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Be the first to know, under $20.00 classes!

What is better than learning a new skill, or improving what you know? Getting a nice little discount on that learning experience! From NOW until Sun Sept 27 @11:59pm MT ... there are OVER 550 classes on sale for under $20.00! Many quilt classes are on sale.. including many I reviewed. See ALL the classes under $20.00 HERE Plus a whole group are $14.99, including the one above that I reviewed AND a group of freemotion quilting classes. See all the $14.99 classes HERE Do you want to read my Class reviews? Each has a link to that class Read... Read more →