Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: Inspiration Look Book - Is white really a color?

In December I'm much more interested in snow than any other time of the year! And snow is generally white, but white with hints of color ... right? The colors it's on, the colors it becomes.. let's see what white is about today here at my Look Book! We have lots of white things in our home, i bet more than you think! Some interesting, some not so interesting, but they are not all the same shade are they? White with other colors makes them sparkle! Paired with red? perfection This awesome quilt was in American Patchwork & Quilting magazine... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Handmade Holiday, with a free recipe!

Jennifer at Ellison Lane is hosting a Handmade Holiday event and today is my day! Read what this is about, and see what MY handmade for the day is From Dec 1-23 you can get 12 handmade articles and enter to win some great prizes! Hop on over ... let me know if you make this! Ellison lane handmade holidays and giveaways! article continues below ad click for My 'How to Load a PHOTO' Tutorial! Share in the link party An InLinkz Link-up Read more →

Pat Sloan: Meet my new thread kits!

My newest Aurifil thread kits are arriving at stores! I want to tell you what is unique about them. I have both a regular size spool kit and a small spool kit And both kits have more than one weight of Aurifil! Our go to weight of thread is 50wt. The regular size box has 7 spools of 50wt in colors that work for piecing and for my applique Then I added the thicker weights. Let's start with the next thickest which is 40 wt on the green spool. I also added one spool of 28 wt for you to... Read more →

Pat Sloan: Aurifil Mini with Celine Perkins, last free mini for the year!

This is the LAST Mini Quilt for the year, and I have the great pleasure of chatting with Celine Perkins, our Dec 2015 Aurifil Designer If you are reading in your email notice, click the banner to see my full article! Each of these mini quilts have been amazing to play with. I love how this one looks with my vintage picnic baskets! I am messing around with the setting fabric... this is a peek! Now they are all together now! I plan to setting them into one quilt, and so is my good friend Jane of QuiltJane! We have... Read more →

Listen, Learn, Sew with Pat Sloan - embroidery, and lots of scrap quilting tips!

ITUNES subscription available - Subscribe HERE MY Podcast Guest List! GET the APP to listen on your Android *** Links to Tutorials from my guests Rebecca Ringquist, Mickey Depre, Sandra Clemons, and Diane Knott I have a love of things that are handmade, that use found objects, that have words and love stitched into them. I've followed Rebecca Ringquist's work for years and she was on my show awhile back to talk about her embroidery. Today I have in my hand her amazing book called the Embroidery Workshops.. A bend the Rules primer. Rebecca's going to share some insights into... Read more →