Pat Sloan's Blog

The LOVE quilt, Night Quilter, color and having quilts judged + a FREE Pattern

My guests today are Sallie McCauley, Gwen Goepel, Kitty Wilkin, and Kimberly Einmo! FREE Pattern at the end. SHOW #333 Talk Show with Pat Sloan LISTEN to THIS show right at the player above. Prior Shows can be Listened to at MY Podcast Guest List page! ITUNES subscription available - Subscribe HERE GET the APP to listen on your Android When I learned about the ‘Love’ quilt that the Floyd Quilt Guild, of Floyd VA, created I had to know more. The VA tourism board has used ‘Love’ many ways over the years from VA is for lovers to the... Read more →

Free St. Patricks' Day Shamrock!

Are you Irish? I think many of us are, we just don't know it! After Gregg and I visited Ireland we came back and did some research on our families. We both have Irish in our background, including the name Sloan, being an Irishman. Who knew! To celebrate Jane created this darling little clover blocks for our Splendid Sampler site. She shows you how it looks in repeat too, which is seriously cute.. i now want to make a table topper for the center of my round table for March! Seeing that My Splendid Sampler blocks are white, aqua, red... Read more →

Charity Sew Along Block #3 .. Fast Free Cute!

This is my 3rd year making a quilt to be auctioned for Charity. It's an honor to do this and I am partnering with the Fat Quarter shop & Moda fabrics to raise money for Make a Wish this year. The Patchwork Quilt Along is a year full of quilting fun for a great cause! PLUS darling blocks! The Fat Quarter's shop quilt is so beautiful... soft and pretty. If you love this exact quilt you can Order the Patchwork Quilt Kit & Backing! Block #3, squares and rectangles... there you go.. BOOM.. a whole quilt of these blocks will... Read more →

Aurifil BOM Challenge, Block 3 by Melissa & Enter your block!

My Favorite day of the month is Aurifil Designer Challenge day! Our theme this year is the rainbow of colors found in the color wheel. Each designer is assigned a color going around the wheel and March is Designer Melissa Corry Getting to know the designers better is so much fun for me... I know am totally envious of Melissa's bindings.. really.. you have to see it! Go ahead and read my interview with Melissa, then come right back.. DOWNLOAD the pattern at the end of the interview.. Read on to see my blocks together & enter your block for... Read more →

I have a little catching up with things today... hope you join me!

Last Monday ... which seems SO Long ago... I emptied my studio totally.. down to nothing in it but my Desk & Tiara so that I was ready for my New Koala Studio Lots of cleaning happened ... and then ... My beautiful new Koala furniture arrived! We spent all day Thursday setting it up and The work of putting everything back started. This is a total make over of where things go. Not everything can be put back as I'm leaving it more open and airy than before. I will be doing a before & after article + a... Read more →