Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: October Aurifil Designer Interview and Free Pattern!

I love my job! Every month I have a chance to find out more about one of the designers that uses Aurifil thread. This time it's my good friend Sara Lawson of Sew Sweetness, you will love her mini! If you are reading in your email notice, click the banner to see my full article! I decided to do just one part of her mini quilt as I'm filling in areas now for my LARGE quilt of all Mini quilts!! how can I have a large all mini? Well I am sure I can! Sara loves a challenge and used... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Farmer's Market Sew Along - Block 3

The Third block in our year long journey of Farmer's Market quilt making is the sweet, crisp, wonderful Apple! I put Farmer's market items that mean something to me, and I have had a long love affair with the apple. They have top billing on the upper right of our quilt! When I was a kid, we lived pretty near some apple orchards. Fall meant a trip to the orchard market. They had some HUGE markets set up at the front of the orchard with bins and bins of apples. I can remember being so excited to go with my... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Street Quilts, Tips on HST, color, and fun playthings!

ITUNES subscription available - Subscribe HERE MY Podcast Guest List! GET the APP to listen on your Android *** Free patterns & Tutorials from my guests Laura Torchio, Betsy Chutchian, Michelle Jensen, and Jeni Baker at the end! I saw a news story about a 'street' quilt. A painted quilt in the streets of Montclair NJ. that High School freshman Haley Winstead created. She had the idea to do this as a community building art project for her Girl Scout Silver Award project. I'm delighted to have the Program Coordinator, Laura Torchio, with me from the 'Eat. Play. Live Better'... Read more →

Pat Sloan: FREE pattern and chance to win!

Sometimes one must just say YES when asked to join in, you get that right? My friends at the Fat Quarter shop do a wonderful series of small quilts. Remember the Panda (find it here)? ... If you are reading this in my article notices click through for all the photos They have a GREAT little mini called Brilliant Cut. They made their version with a white diamond on navy, with Moda's Bella Solids.... think 'put a ring on it'.. wink! I had to join in because my birthstone is a Topaz, and I wanted a topaz ring! The topaz... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Tool Talk ... Pat tells all

I'm starting a new feature called 'Tool Talk, Pat tells all!'. I'll be sharing tools I use all the time. On the right sidebar is Pat's tool Talk, so you can go to all of them! One thing I do that not everyone does, is my binding by machine. I converted to this for 2 reasons 1- I timed how long it took me to do binding by hand, wow.. oh.. wow was that long! 2- The ONLY thing I'm repairing on the quilts I travel with is, my binding. there had to be a better way. Binding by machine... Read more →