Pat Sloan's Blog

Well this is pretty exciting!

*** Pat's Picks! *** I'm so excited that I'm featured for the next month at Nancy's Notions with a Pat's Picks page! My wonderful friends at Nancy's Notions asked me to share some of my favorite and most essential items that are in their store. Before we look at them, tell me, did you watch Nancy Zieman's shows? I loved them so much and really miss her. AND to celebrate being featured, I've got something I'll send to one of you a week from today! So be sure to read everything, it's at the end Visit My Page *** Best... Read more →

Some Un-Boxing fun + a Giveaway!

I am so excited to do my first 'unboxing'! What I'm doing is opening a box of surprises and showing you what I got! When I was at the Baby Lock Ambassador event in June they asked us if we'd like a surprise box, heck yes we all said! I've loved getting mail since I was a little girl, and boxes in the mail, still make me giddy! So watch my video below then keep reading! *** I hope you enjoy my video, it was super fun to do! *** Article continues below this Ad ** Blanche is our random... Read more →

Let's Celebrate National Quilting Month with a giveaway!

March is National Quilting month, but we all know every month is really for quilting! My wonderful Baby lock Family is also celebrating their 50th anniversary and they are having a full month of giveaways ... 50 prizes to give away in March! I'm the host this week. You might have seen my video telling you about the giveaway HERE, and today.... It's my turn to announce the next set of prizes, yes set! I am doing another live video at my Facebook group this afternoon at 4pm est and of course you can watch it afterwards. I'm going to... 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 →

How I quilted the Golden Coins with a Walking Foot + a Giveaway!

I am Super excited to share my love of the Walking Foot on my Baby Lock Destiny II. It's easy to install and easy to use... you will be quilting your own quilts in no time! And at the end, enter my giveaway! I decided to use a soft open wave for my quilting. In the video that follows I show you how easy it is to put on the Digital Dual Feed foot (walking foot). If you can't watch videos due to your internet connection, I shared a bit about the stitch in photos following the video. If You... Read more →