Pat Sloan's Blog: 2016 my secret garden

My Mystery Secret Garden Giveaway!

It's time to finish our Secret Garden!.... before you enter your quilt... you can take a peek at the sale above, the perfect backing might be waiting for you... I saw cozy flannel and i Know a lot of you love the 108" wide backings!

We had a gorgeous fall day so I took my Secret Garden quilts outside for a photo shoot. Like many of you, mine are tops right now, but they will grow up to be quilts some day soon... wink!

Mon Ami with the precious kitty fabric... I have a person in mind to give this one to!

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This is my Hometown Girl version. It was SO FUN to make these, each month I really enjoyed seeing ALL your quilt blocks with so many different fabrics!

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DOWNLOAD the PATTERNS at FreeQuiltPatterns.INFO

Someone told me they had missed the block 11 & 12. Those are both DUPLICATES of previous blocks with fabric placement making them look unique! One is in your Pattern 7. Go read my post, look at the photos, and watch the video

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/block-seven---oatlands-plantation-virginia.htm

The other is in pattern 9. It is in the pattern/website and be sure to watch the video.

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/pat-sloan-bom-block-9.htm

Remember the Setting Directions are in Pattern 10

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/pat-sloan-bom-block-10.htm

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Time to enter your Secret Garden Top! I created a brand new entry for the final tops. If you see a quilt in my classroom remind them to come here to enter!

The Tutorial on how to load a photo

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Enter your quilt by Nov 12 at 6pm est...when I'll do a random number drawing!

Our Random Number picker selected #31

which is Anita's Beautiful Secret Garden Quilt!

Thank you everyone for sewing along with me.. can't wait for our 2017 Mystery!

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Get The GOODS ---

My Triangle Book has tutorials, tons of ways to make triangles and a cheat sheet of the formula's for doing multiples ... plus amazing quilt!
My NEW Free Motion Quilting Book at 22% off + a Digital Option
My Hometown Girl Fabrics
The Design boards I use, because I like to buy them ready made..wink!
Mon Ami Fabric

An InLinkz Link-up

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FREE_Mystery Block 10 & Layout

It's time to finish our Secret Garden!

Our Block 10 is Goschenhoppen with the colonial Gardens in Pennsylvania!

We traveled to gardens around the world, and I returned back to a colonial garden, which is one of my early 'loves'.

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DOWNLOAD the PATTERN at FreeQuiltPatterns.INFO And watch my video where I show you the trick to making the bonus block look SO different!

Now read on ....

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You read a bit about my love of gardens over at the download page.. Let me explain what a Beeskep is.

From Dave's Garden Website

'Bee skeps were/are made of coiled straw rather than braided straw. In England, they were often made of wheat straw and the process was called lip basketry. In America, especially among the PA Germans, rye straw was mainly used and most of the antique straw skeps found today are made of coiled rye bound together with bramble canes or very thin wooden splints. Today imported reed is often used for binding new skeps made by a small, but dedicated group of craftsmen, as they are very time consuming to reproduce in the old way.

Some straw skeps lasted as long as 150 years, because it was the swarm of bees that was often destroyed (in order to harvest the honey from the straw skeps), not the skep itself.' Due to health concerns, they are no longer used for production but you can buy them for decorative items!

BUY One for your garden! And other cute things with a Beeskep on it,

including my MaMa's Garden Pattern!

All the Mon Ami Fabric blocks together.. I SO Love this!...

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And all my Hometown Girl blocks.. so so fun!! Don't you love the polka dots!

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DOWNLOAD the PATTERN at FreeQuiltPatterns.INFO

All the Blocks HERE

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Get The GOODS ---

My Triangle Book has tutorials, tons of ways to make triangles and a cheat sheet of the formula's for doing multiples ... plus amazing quilt!
Cotton Boll- Hometown Girl Ver - HURRY not many left!
My Hometown Girl Fabrics
The Design boards I use, because I like to buy them ready made..wink!
Mon Ami Fabric

An InLinkz Link-up

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FREE_Mystery Block 9 + the Last bonus block.. now!

Block 9 and we are on the home stretch for my Secret Garden Mystery! This month is the second (and last) extra block for September. Because....

..... I think we ALL get back to serious sewing in September! It's kind of a quilter thing, right?

Our Block 9 is 'Flamingo Gardens' in Florida!

The Bonus block is a repeat of Block 2 with the squares in different colors and some twirled a bit! I will show you on the video that part so you can see it.

I have a little back story to share about flamingos.. are you ready?

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DOWNLOAD the PATTERN at FreeQuiltPatterns.INFO And watch my video where I show you the trick to making the bonus block look SO different!

Now read on ...for a little flamingo love today....

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I knew we had visited Flamingo Gardens, so I went searching for photos... it was awhile ago! Before my phone camera took very good photos, so they are a bit fuzzy... but.... look....

oh my! The first photo I found was a stop at South of Border, for a snack and a visit with GIANT Flamingos...

This cracks me up!!

This photo is from the garden's website. I want to share a little 'back story'. I have this memory of a 'pink Flamingo' encounter when I was a little girl.. of seeing them behind a fence and being so incredibly exited to see PINK BIRDS!

I asked my mom if I really saw Flamingos or was it just a dream... it seems when I was very little we went to the Bronx Zoo and I did see Flamingos. I guess it left a life long impression on me as I have loved them ever since!

Besides the birds, my favorite thing at the garden is the Wray house in 1930's Florida style

I really want to go back to this garden now... If you live in Florida and want me to come teach, fill out my form and we'll see if we can work it out!

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Ever since picking this block I've been dreaming of Pink Flamingos... Should I make a Pink Flamingo Quilt? Use some Pink Flamingo Fabric (by the way .. i did do that many years ago, I wonder where that quilt is?

I pulled a few Flamingo things into a design collage for inspiration, that large Flamingo collage pattern is DIVINE

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DOWNLOAD the PATTERN at FreeQuiltPatterns.INFO

All the Blocks HERE

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