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Pat Sloan: What would you do, quilt the one block or....

Am I the only one having a MILD panic to see what I actually worked on and completed for Jan 2017? The last day of the month kind of does that to me. I have work things, fun things, new things, and things that "just can't ever seem to get completed". That last one is a KILLER.. right?

I need a little feed back on what YOU would do...

I made two pineapple blocks with Jackie's Free pattern (HERE). I quilted one and give to my friend. The other... well I have this GRAND Idea ... I'll 'Be like Jackie' and make a WHOLE pineapple quilt.. like the cool kids did.

I have a single block now for months. I pinned it up. I kind of like it there with my Four Butterflies from here ON SALE and my single butterfly from here.

So... do I quilt it tonight... and call it a FINISH for Jan?

Or make more? tell me in the comments below! But I need more help...

I'm doing the American Patchwork & Quilting Sew along with Grand Canal fabric + my own Sunday Drive.

This is the group you voted on for taking out a color.

Most of you said to remove the orange.

I removed the purple .. I like orange as it's in the Main print for the roof

And this sews up SUPER fast with SUPER large shapes.. so this is it in progress.

The grand canal fabric on the right with the Two Yellow strip auditions.. yes.. that one

Which yellow? Bright or Muted?

and because it seems to be a Sunny Yellow kind of day...

Block 96/100 for my 'Sweet Taffy' version of our The Splendid Sampler™ project. Our book is on SALE for pre-order.. a great time to do it as it ships in April... sooooooooo excited about that!

Jan 31... tomorrow is my next block for my Free BOM The Children's Library... and it's also the Next Solstice block

Are you excited?

Where to Get the Goodies

Sign up for my notices of new things
my Four Butterflies Quilt in the Mini Marvel's book which is ON SALE
Grand Canal fabric
My Sunday Drive fabric, in stores in a few weeks!.
Splendid Sampler Book ON SALE
I spotted my Aurifil thread kits here, here and here!

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Learn about designing, a quilt novel's creation, and more tips + a FREE pattern!

My guests today are Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill, Frances O’Roark Dowell, Vicki Ruebel, and Joanna Figueroa

FREE Pattern at the end.

SHOW #328 and the start of Year 7 of weekly Talk Shows with Pat Sloan

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I believe a lot of us first noticed Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill’s work with her ‘Buzzz’ quilt that won the 2015 Quilt Alliance animal quilt contest. I want to learn how Sheri has taken her graphics design background, love of math, and symmetry to her unique quilts. With this combo Sheri’s quilts pull a lot of design punch. We’ll hear today how she works through creating a new design

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As quiltmakers we usually do a few other things beside quilt. Maybe crochet, garden, bake… or read. Yep… quilters LOVE a story and put a quilter IN that story and we can really relate! We are so lucky that many novelist are also quilters and choose to make the star of the novel a quilt maker. I’m excited to have author Frances Dowell with me today to tell me about her book Birds in the Air. I want to learn how she spins our quilting into the book!

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Vicki Ruebel is an extraordinary award longarm quilter. I was drawn to her work because she has a way of adding another whole layer to the quilt top that brings out the very best. She is going to share with me some tips for thinking about the quilting design and how to prepare to hire a longarm quilter to work on your quilt.

free tutorials - Swirly Twirly Dresden. http://www.orchidowlquilts.com/2013/02/swirly-twirly-dresden.html

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I've been a huge fan of Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree for years. She is a regular contributor to American Patchwork & quilt magazine, and have been on the show several times. Joanna told me the other day she is redoing her studio.. which is a personal obsession of mine! So we are talking studio redos, her new Coney Island fabric line for Moda, and if we have time... a little about her block of the month quilts inspired by antique quilts.

This is part of her her studio remodel,love the color wall & ladder of wool!

This is the cool table Joanna told me about!

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To celebrate the pretty snow we had today (which is now gone!) ... A cute snowman mug rug!

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Pat's Review + a free Pattern!

It's always GOOD to check the daily FLASH SALE! .. because you just NEVER know what will pop up!

The perfect Sew Sampler box chases away the winter blahs.... with super fun things to try!

A new Olfa blade, change yours now.. ok? got it? good!
The vintage soak that I've wanted to try, you can get just a sampler
super nice needles for binding or hand applique

and Let's take a closer look at the rest.. shall we?

The thread cutter is GREAT! It is slightly weighted, not too heavy, with a wide flat base.

Place on your cutting table, next to your sewing machine, over on your ironing board. So when you've chain pieced a whole string of items, you just use that blade to cut all the thread between units, zip, zip, zip.. done.... Love it!

Next is another exclusive pattern for the Sew Sampler box, this time it uses a charm pack. The yummy 'Pink Flamingo' charm pack came in your sampler box. I rushed over to my stack of charm packs (you DO have a stack of charm packs.. right)

I found this Handmade Charm pack with the RIGHT shade of pink, teal, red and green.

See how PERFECT it is?

What I like is the size of the mini quilt those 2 will make, 32 x 36. Perfect for a wall hanging to enjoy the fabrics, or adjust it so there are 3 rows for a table runner. And they you'll have extra charms for another project.