Pat Sloan's Blog

Project updates and Giveway on my Fireside Chat today!

Happy June! I love the month of June... let's get chatting! If you are reading this in an email, CLICK THE TITLE or the SEE MORE at the end to come to my website to watch my video! Thank you for using my links, they support my small family business. Enter my GIVEAWAY at the end This week is an update on the sew alongs. If you have a question for me, leave it at youtube so I can answer them next week. NEXT FREE Sew Along HAS STARTED, JOIN in! My FREE Weekly 'Main Street' Sew Along DETAILS **Enter... Read more →

Paper Piecing, Fast Quilting, Tool tip and the National Quilt museum

Guests Jeannie Jenkins, Pat Yamin, Frank Bennett, and Kimberly Jolly join Pat for a chat! CLICK THE PLAYER & Listen to Show 424 - My favorite find at the end! FYI IF THE LAST SEGMENT IS BLANK, come back later when I get it reloaded LISTEN to THIS show right at the player above. Subscribe to ITUNES HERE CLICK TO LISTEN/Download at the station MY Podcast Guest List ' Jeannie Jenkins is an award winning quiltmaker, designer, longarmer, teacher and author. Her book Contemporary Paper Pieced quilts is full of not only very unique designs, but loads of wonderful tips... Read more →

SEW along UPDATE - Winter Wonderland and Witches Night Out

Summer Book Sew Alongs! Winter Wonderland's Sleigh Bell Sampler, My Summer Celebrate the Seasons' small projects and Witches Night out and the crazy trio of things to sew. I have an update on all 3 today FIRST ENTER YOUR EMAIL to get the notices of new articles I'm ready to start this one!! The Fat Quarter shop and I created a great kit for this quilt with a super darling fabric line. The kits are IN STOCK so if you want one now is the time to get it. Article continues below this Ad ********** Download the Sleigh Bell Sampler... Read more →

The FREE JUNE Aurifil Designer of the Month Block

Our June Aurifil Designer of the Month is the wonderful Annette Plog. If you have not meet her yet, you are in for a treat. And if you like scrappy, you need to start following her! This is my version of Annette's block. Her block is really scrappy and wonderful! And I love her family tradition that sparked her block, I need a tradition like that! Today I have a family portrait of both my 6 blocks and the Designer's 6 blocks. Plus my thoughts on fabric/color for my blocks. Remember to make and enter your block at the Aurifil... Read more →

Charity Quilts Up for Auction!

** Charity Quilts Up for Auction!** My Charity quilt is quilted by my good friends Cindy & Dennis Dickenson and is at the Fat Quarter Shop offices for the auction this summer to support this year’s charity Make-A-Wish Central & South Texas! My quilt is made with Sweet Tea Fabric This is the back of my quilt, that could be yours! My friend Melissa Corry of Happy Quilting also has her quilt up for auction and it's so cute and a totally different layout! look at her amazing quilting ********Auctions end July 1******* CLICK to Bid on mine CLICK to... Read more →