Pat Sloan's Blog

Do you love a discovery?

When I was getting ready to film and I decided to try and find something that went with what I was going to share. ** In this Article ** How to set up your youtube notices Video The contents of this box! Barbie Panel pattern FREE Download And a link to listen to a 'Barbie Designer' so cool! After asking Gregg to get down several boxes Success! YOUTUBE has made a lot of changes lately so we need to adapt. It is a free service for both you and me, so when they change we just roll along and make... Read more →

Are you a Birthday Cake or more of a Pie Person?

Cake or Pie.. Pie or cake... and on your birthday does it have to be cake? I've been a Birthday cake person most of my life but you know, I really love cherry pie! So this year.. I'm having pie today instead of cake. Anyone else have something beside cake on your birthday? Article continues below this Ad When you plan to give someone special a quilt do you tell them in advance? This November we took a trip down to Florida to visit my family. My mom flew in on her way to Greece and we all stayed with... Read more →

We are humbled, and please open for a status

Gregg and I are comforted and humbled by the many well wishes, we don't even know where to begin. Your words are so kind, and they uplifted us as we remember Gregg's mom Madge with all our heart. One person suggested I make a memory quilt and I thought about that. I like the idea and I have a pattern that my super talented friend Kitty of Night Quilter designed. This is a portion of an English Paper Piecing Rosette in her quilt called 'Pollinate'. I've not done a large English Paper Piecing (EPP) project... yet. They take time. They... Read more →

Remembering Madge

It's been a hard summer as my wonderful, smart, talented, and beautiful Mother-in-law Madge slipped away. We said good bye to her yesterday which just doesn't seem enough for me. I wanted to share what a great woman she was and how important she was in my life. She grew up in a log cabin without running water in rural Pennsylvania. Over her life time she was an artist who did many paintings, a banker, a mom, a seamstress, a quilter, a woman of great faith, and a firecracker of lady. Anyone that knew Madge knew she was determined, strong... Read more →

Do you collect anything? And my Charity Quilt Front!

I am doing a photo a day project which is fun and challenging. I've not done something 'every day' for a full year before. We are 5 months into the project today and I took some time to think about it. Each day I get an email prompt with either a topic or a photography lesson. I joined this on a whim, really on a whim. I think on Dec 28, I was reading a post and it mentioned this, I read it, it might have been late at night.. very... late at night. I decided it sounded like FUN... Read more →