Pat Sloan's I Love To Make Quilts

FREE Embroidery Block of the month, Block 6 is a darling basket of flowers!

I am the host of Aurifil's Designer of the Month program for the last 6 years. And during that time we have had so many cute projects from our fantastic designers! I suggested to the Aurifil we run the 2012 Embroidery Block of the Month again as it's darling and many of you might have missed it! (I know.. hard to believe!) Squeaking in on the last day of June... Our June block is designed by wonderful, polka dot loving Pam of PamKittyMorning! If you are on Instagram, follow Pam there, she creates darling things! We are making the blocks... Read more →

FREE Block 1/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along with Pat + weekly deals!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Wooohooo!! I am SO excited about this new free Wednesday Sew along!! What is better than Grandma's Kitchen, a sew along with blocks named for the best memories we have of that kitchen! I bet you have great stories to tell, cherished times sitting in that kitchen. I am really looking forward to thinking about each of my grandma's and great-grandma's during this project. They were ladies who I cherished and loved deeply. There is no better place to start this sew along then the heart of the kitchen, the Kitchen table. Do you... Read more →

Grand Ole Flag a free First Day of Summer Pattern for you!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies I have wanted to create this quilt for a LONG time. I've done many flag quilts over the years and this single block was in a 4 block, a one block, but now... ta da.... The Grand Ole Flag! It's a really fun and fast quilt to do and I'm using all of my Sunday Drive fabric To celebrate the First Day of Summer, the end of the Winter Solstice, I'm going to quilt it! I'm ready.. I have my Aurifil Thread kit My Batting I can't WAIT to quilt this and enjoy it!... Read more →

My Solstice Top!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Words can not describe how wonderful it has been to make a dream come true. Often we think of things we want to do, and then.. we start but don't finish.. or maybe never start. But this time was different. I had dreamed of a website for my free sewalongs. A place where I can publish a block a week. Something fun, organic and not planned to the max. In other words.. something fun for me to do! And my other goal was a quilt made in the 182 day Solstice.. and I did... Read more →

FREE Final Block 25/25 Solstice Sew Along with Pat + weekly deals!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies If you didn't know yet, my FREE Wed quilt Block, which is posted here at I Love To Make Quilts, is an ongoing project. I am grouping each set of blocks under a theme so that we do 'x' number of blocks that go into one quilt. The first that you are following is 182 days to make a quilt, the Solstice is 25 blocks. The next Wed quilt starts June 28th and I will post the theme in an article very soon.. but today..let's wrap up The Solstice! I don't know who is... Read more →