Pat Sloan's Blog: Word of the Year

🙋‍♀️ Oh the word of it! Word of the Year

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

April rolls into May and I'm writing about my Word of the Year, this might be a record!! One BIG goal that I set for myself was to write about my word each month, woohoo!

(be sure to watch my video below, it's part of my story today)

** Word of the Year Monthly Reflection **

My word of the year is 'Do'.

I've joined Ali Edwards One Little Word so each month is a prompt.

Krystal Idunate was our guide for April and the prompt is about 'Letting go'.

She had a great analogy of our life is a full glass of water.

We have an extra set of little cups with water in them that we want to add to the glass. When we try to put them into our full glass something spill out, there is no room for anything new. It could be physical items, emotional items, and/or relationships.

In Recap I was able to sometimes catch myself on that treadmill in my head, running something over and over and over, like losing my quilt in the mail on the way to be quilting... At some point we all need to let those things go. So I made progress on that.

** Daily Video **

I talk about the word of the year and show you my favorite photo of my Dad

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** May Feelings behind the photos **

May is hosted by Azzari Jarrett at azzarijarrett.com/blog who is an amazing photographer working in film photos right now. I really love her approach to our word. Her focus is for us to look at the feelings associated with our photography and our word of the year.

In my video today I show you my favorite photo of my dad and why I took it. It has all the feels.

This month I'll be stopping to think about my photo taking more than usual. I do a lot to tell the 'story' of my quilt making' but don't always write WHY that photo is done the way I do it. Or even think about that.

Similar to other things we create, like quilts, we don't' always have a story, but we usually have a feeling.

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Tuesday, January 03, 2023

Tackle It Tuesday, Sweater Weather & my word of the year!

A special Tuesday email! A word, a Finish and a WHOLE lot of fabric, let's get to it!

Sweater Weather
Organization - Fabric!
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** Sweater Weather top is done!**

SO excited to be done this early in the month! I'm going to get this one quilted and enjoy it!

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** Did you miss it? **

I kicked of the year with a month of Organization tips, challenges, and discusions

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** My GAllery is up to day! **

My Gallery for 2022 quilts made is complete! Woohoo!

Still working on documenting my 25+ prior years of quilts so check back every so often. I am keeping the current year accurate, Sweater Weather will be the 1st for 2023!

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** My Word of Year 2023 **

This is my 18th year of having a word and goals...18 years.. I really can't believe it! It started on a whim, then just seemed to continue. Some years the word really resonates with me. Other years, not so much, but that's ok.

How do I come up with a word?

Sometimes I use these questions

What do I hope will happen in 2023?

What dreams do I want to nurture?

What qualities do I want to develop?

What does my heart need?

A word might pop up when thinking about those things. Other times, like this year, I was having a chat with a friend and 'having fun' resonated with me and that is what I decided on.

How I plan to keep my word front and center

Looking - at where I can have a bit more fun with the 'every day'. like adding stickers to the journal

Making it happen - For me that means a bit more planning of fun. It doesn't happen without a plan.

Reflect Each Month I may or may not do this. Depends on what I feel lke

For January here are my top things to 'Do':

Organize!

Document at least 50 quilts from my inventory

Do Yoga every day - Join me in Jan at https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

Walk every day that I can

Work on at least 2 UFOs each month -but maybe not in Jan.. see first bullet point

Do you have a Motto or Word for the Year or just a GOAL for the year? Put it in my comments below!

2023 - Fun is this year!

2022 - Space - I am sure there was a post or video talking about this, I can not find it. It was a rough word year, I didn't feel and I didn't do much with it.

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Friday, September 17, 2021

Have you made an EASY quilt label lately? Woodland Wonderland Sew along and Word of the Year Status

Last month I took a 'pass' on writing about my Word of the year (or was it last 2 months?), so here it is time to do that again. So I'm pulling up my big girl pants and looking at my year so far as it relates to the word 'Do'.

Next be sure to watch my video where I share super easy Label making, let me know if you enjoyed this!

Word of the Year DO - it's short!
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***My Word Of the Year***

My Word of the year is "DO". I promised myself this year to take one day a month to assess my word.

I'm doing pretty darn good in the 'Do' category, I might even say that I have nailed 'Do' for this year. In December of 2020 I selected this word so I would have more control. I needed that because I was recovering from 2 broken wrists and there was not much 'Doing', thankfully that situation has improved.

Like many years, by this time I've either

accomplished the word and it's not as meaningful
I have moved away from it and need a new word
or both.

I'm in the both category this year as it's a word I don't 'need' anymore. Which is a huge success!

For the rest of the year I'll think about either a new word to wrap up the year, or maybe just check in once a month on goals.. only 3 more months this year!

Leaving you with the quote

'Change starts with how you feel. Shift your perspective'

That 2nd line.. SHIFT your perspective is key to so many things. I've had to do that over and over and over again this year.

** Daily Video .. Watch for all the good stuff! **

My videos are where all the good stuff is, I hope you are watching them here or at Youtube, otherwise you are missing most of what I'm doing nowdays.

Leave me a note about video watching in the comments. Mine are short, you can listen while making a meal, taking a walk, doing chores, it's a super way to stay connected to your quilting each day 💕

::Label Making Tutorial::

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Friday, July 09, 2021

The Gathering of the Quilts, Part #2 & my Word of the year

My word of the year is 'DO' and my BIG & EPIC 'Do' for the next few months is this project, 'The Gathering of the Quilts'.

This post serves as my recap of 'Doing' for June, I love when an article works for more than one thing!

On Monday was Episode #1 (see end of this article to watch it) and this is Episode #2!

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*** Gathering of the Quilts Episode #2***

Watch Episode #1 at the end

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Back Story

I started quilting in 1992, I showed my 'TRUE' first quilt in the 7/5/2021 video which I've put below for you to watch if you missed it.
I started my business in 1996 part time while I worked my corporate job.
Went full time in my business in 2000
How big is my home - It is 1,800 square feet. No basement, So usable Attic. So it's small when you have a business to fit into it.
How many years did it take to make all of those - 29 (1992 is first one I made, although I did make a bed spread in 1979) - Most of my quilts are for my business, that is the last 21 years . One year I wrote 4 books, each book has 15 to 20 projects. I've written 38 books
Why did I keep them all until now and not donate them sooner? As a Business I've used many of the quilts over and over. They have gone to exhibit, to shops, to be put into other books, and I used them when I traveled to teach. I just kept them incase they were needed.
Why didn't I plan out all this documenting when I first started my business? Actually I did. If I had a crystal ball that I knew what I'd want 20 years into my business, then I would have done it differently. I have photos but they are in archives, in folder, under names I might not remember 20 years after they were made. My need now is different than my need when I started my business. I can imagine you have something in your life you wish you had done differently. If so, tell me about it!
Where were they stored before? In a bedroom of our home. Not much different than how it looks in the Dining room. I work downstairs so taking the 'Gathering Photo' then leaving them down here for me to work on the was important to making this reduction happen
Did I finish these during the pandemic? Not at all. I didn’t even finish many UFOs during the pandemic as I broke both my wrists and lost half of the year, it was all I could do with help of my friends to keep my business running,
Current total # of quilted projects in my home is 739 which included 30 tops. I know there are more as some on the stack or small and I’m sure i missed them in my shelf count
How many did I give away prior to this? I guess at least 200. That means about 939 projects I've made.

Process

#1 Question - How do I decide what to keep or as ‘loose goose’ asked What will determine if you donate or keep? That is a process I'll go through. Watch my video today and I explain it.
Do i find it hard to give them away. I’ll keep those. Others are parts of my business, so I’m happy they will have a new home. I know I’m parting with a few hard ones but I can only keep so many.
With the living room and dining room covered in quilts where do you *live*? My living room is not covered in quilts all the time, that was just for that photo. My dining room is now the temporary storage area while I'm working on thigs.
How many am I keeping? Watch my video today and I explain that
How will I store them? - sort by ones I’d display on rotation, then by book, magazine, other. They will be hanging in my home and stored neatly on shelves
What am I doing to ‘document’ my quilts - they already have labels. I am taking photos of front, back, label. Renaming each photo with date and what it was for. Keeping digital photos in folder system. Loading them to my gallery at https://blog.patsloan.com/pat-sloans-quilt-gallery.html

Charity

What charity? Gregg and I decided to work with one local charity where my friend is on the board and I know the people. This way Gregg and I see the results, we can help them if needed, and we do not have to pay money to ship things. Shipping adds up fast and instead we give that money to local organizations
Can I bid on them? The Sewcilaites will be up for bidding in a few weeks. If any others come up for bidding I’ll let you know
What about a huge quilt auction Or Have you thought about raffling off a few of your donation quilts on YouTube or in the Fb Group? -- Gregg and I have thought through ALL the options and how I want to devote my time to this, and decided on one Charity to work with.

** IF you are looking for places to send your quilts or Quilt TOPS I have a list at

www.ilovetomakequilts.com/quilt-tops-for-chairty.html If your state is not listed with a location email me pat@patsloan.com

Other

Where can I see them? Visit My Gallery. I load them as I work on this
Where can I get the patterns? In my Gallery I link to the patterns if they are still available. Many magazine ones are not. But I own the pattern so have the choice to reprint them someday.

My Gallery https://blog.patsloan.com/pat-sloans-quilt-gallery.html

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Q/A

Vicki asked - Pat are there some you really don’t care for? Yes, I show you that in today's video
Kathleen Wow, your husband is amazing! My hubby would not have let me do this - We are partners and support each other in what we do. Gregg is half owner of our company so this is his income too.
Laura said That 800 number you always use seems less silly now! see - you need to believe what I say!
Will I do a book? - I am of the belief .. Never say Never
Gretchen said I’ll need a bigger house - Our home is just fine. The quilts will go to new homes to be used.