Pat Sloan's I Love To Make Quilts

FREE Embroidery Block of the month, Block 7 is Sum.. Sum... Summertime!

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!) We love that Sarah Fielke was a great sport and did a Summer block as in Australia it's not summer right now. This reboot is done stitched by Hilary Jordan, Aurifil’s Social Media Coordinator. We are making the... Read more →

House 2 of Free Sew Along Will You Be My Neighbor

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Yes it's time.. time for BIG houses.. because.. I love big blocks! Round #2 of Sewing Moda's fun quilt called 'Will you be my Neighbor' with massive upsized blocks, I LOVE it! I'll be be posting a block to make twice a month. First time around the 15th, 2nd block towards the end of the month. I just did a Facebook Live.. while being eaten by bugs.. WATCH HERE I created a new Home Page with all the blocks.. woohoo! And I'm getting very very crazy.... Article continues below this Ad I love these... Read more →

FREE Block 5/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along with Pat + weekly deals

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Each Block in Grandma's Kitchen will be a memory or event. And this week we talk about some special items from the kitchen.... There are certain things we remember.. and for me.. that is the glasses & cups used by each of my grandma's. I tell you the story in the pattern.. but here is a bit more.... you see... I think I was most fond of the jelly jar glasses.. and my brothers liked the aluminum cups. And what do I own? One of Granny's Aluminum cups... in RED! Did you know you... Read more →

Does it matter? Yeah.. it kind of does.. let me explain why

We've had some discussion about an accurate 1/4" seam allowance at my online group. It's a GREAT discussion to have. When I learned to quilt I took a 12 week course and I learned block construction, how to draft, and why there IS basic math, grids, and accuracy involved in quilt making. So it does matter that your final block is the size. And it's not correct to say they will 'work out' if the wrong size. Let me explain If you are following a design, the sizes are there so that the quilt can be made properly. If you... Read more →

FREE Block 4/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along with Pat + weekly deals!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Each Block in Grandma's Kitchen will be a memory or event. And this week we talk about 'The Kitchen' itself.... This week is all about The Kitchen! My maternal grandma, Na-Na, had what she called 'Half a Modern Kitchen'. She also had Half a Modern bathroom but a series called Grandma's Bathroom just didn't seem.. well.. what I wanted to do.. ha! In my story in the pattern I explain WHY she called her kitchen that. The block is a take on tiles. Back-splashes, floors, maybe on a table trivet. Somewhere there is usually... Read more →

Will you be my neighbor? FREE Sew Along!

You have been sewing along on your 'Will you Be my Neighbor' quilts and I decided it was time to get this running again for everyone! These gorgeous big house blocks with trees, birds, stars and a lovely sail boat are so cute I can't stand it! And the blocks are free from Moda, which is so generous!! So what's a neighborhood without a few friends? So I started!!! I started mine with the Juniper Berry Christmas-y but not too Christmas-y fabric line to make mine a Winter Neighborhood. I'm in Virginia so I do get winter. With this version... Read more →

FREE Block 3/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along with Pat + weekly deals!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Each Block in Grandma's Kitchen will be a memory or event. Often the block name is something I thought about this week. This is very much a journal for me, and It's so much fun to have everyone joining! This week might be unique to me, but I bet it isn't! My Granny & Pappy had a key holder in the kitchen to hang the keys. And when you read my story in the pattern, you'll see why it was a great memory for me! This got me thinking.. do people have key holders... Read more →

A Side project using a bloc loc ruler - how to use it for 3.5" squares

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies I have wanted to work with the bloc loc ruler to do square in a square. When Moda's new 'Treat Size' precut came out I knew that was the unit I wanted to work with! The Treat is size is 3.5" square, I love this 'little bit bigger' size square to work with. The goal is to use the 3.5" square as the base and not trim it down and use the 3" x 6" bloc-loc flying geese ruler This posted a design issue as the resulting block is not a regular patchwork size... Read more →

FREE Block 2/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along with Pat + weekly deals!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Each Block in Grandma's Kitchen will be a memory or event. We started block #1 as the 'heart of the Kitchen' That is where everything happens for so many grandma's. Like when I did the Solstice Challenge, often the block name is something I thought about this week. This is very much a journal for me, and It's so much fun to have everyone joining! This week I was reminded of a special breakfast roll, that we would eat at anytime, the Sticky bun. I'm not sure if all the world has these, but... Read more →

Pat's FREE Grand Ole Flag is done! Binding on.. Happy 4th of July!

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 finished it!! Quilted with my Aurifil Thread kit The batting i used makes it wonderful... take a look... Read more →