Pat Sloan's I Love To Make Quilts

Merry & Bright Sew Along Block FREE #8

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies For today, I must say, that Block #8 is all about Santa! Santa is key to my childhood memories. From visiting Santa in person at the local 5 & Dime, to putting out cookies Christmas eve, to letting dad turn on the lights and 'check' that Santa was gone Christmas morning.... Santa knew everything! And Waiting for Santa lasted for weeks. SHARE you quilt block at the END! In each pattern I have a memory or story of my own. When You share your block at my Facebook group, or when you leave me... Read more →

Organized Studio Space tour, DAY 3 of 3 giveaway!

I did a Facebook LIVE on Saturday morning to share my space... come take a look then enter Giveaway #3 at the end. It was so much fun to flip on Facebook Live for an impromptu walk through my studio I did not do the captions at Facebook because I have to manually edit them. It's translator is not very good, and this one was too long for me to go through and rewrite it. Instead I put it up at Youtube and you can select their closed caption which is better at translating WATCH at YOUTUBE for closed caption... Read more →

Organizing my Studio Space, DAY 2 of 3 giveaway!

I've been working away and putting things back and decided it would be a GREAT day to do my Sewline 'unbagging' video! There are 2 kits, both on sale. You can also buy any product by itself Did you like this video? * CLICK for Quilting Kit ON SALE * CLICK for Sewing Kit ON SALE * All Sewline products For Day 2 of my giveaway THIS yummy gift box will go to someone! Tomorrow is day 3 and you can enter ALL 3 days! Now.. Leave a comment below by 8:30pm eastern Sept 26, 2018 Winner is Cathy who... Read more →

Organizing my Studio Space, want to see...psst.. giveaway at the end

I'm busy making my main studio space more usable... check out my progress AND enter my giveaway! I give you a BEFORE tour My main studio space is where I work all the time. It has my projects in progress, machines, computer, and most of my fabric. About 3pm I started pulling all the projects out of my studio space to resort them and put them into better size container and more effective & productive spots for my use. I did a video for you For the post part I'm not doing fabric, just projects. That includes all the different... Read more →

Merry & Bright Sew Along Block FREE #7

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies For today, I must say, that Block #7 is my favorite!! Don't tell the others, it will be our secret, ok? My love of Gingerbread started early. Granny would bring them from the Farmer's market and I think i may have played with more of them than actually ate them! SHARE you quilt block at the END! In each pattern I have a memory or story of my own. When You share your block at my Facebook group, or when you leave me a comment after posting your block, share YOUR memory with me!... Read more →

Jelly Roll Day! Patterns of Mine & FREE Jelly Roll Quilts

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Today is National Jelly Roll day!! As quilters we know that means 2.5" strips rolled into a yummy bundle with loads of possibilities! What is a Jelly roll? 2.5" x 42" strips from a fabric collection Usually 40 strips. But some have less, so check the description And there are 'skinny' jelly rolls called Honey Bins where the strips are only 1.5" wide. Most of the time the roll is all from one collection. But there are also solid rolls. Some are rolls and some are flat folded. It's GREAT to have those long... Read more →

Merry & Bright Sew Along Block #6

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies And it's time for Block #6! Last week was the project layout now we are are back to blocks!.... "Put a Star on it" is my Block #6! I have loved stars ever since I can remember. And stars for Christmas are a must! SHARE you quilt block at the END! In each pattern I have a memory or story of my own. When You share your block at my Facebook group, or when you leave me a comment after posting your block, share YOUR memory with me! For each pattern I include a... Read more →

Merry & Bright more insight to the project layout with a Video

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies I'm thrilled by how cute ALL your Merry and Bright blocks and layout blocks are!! I filmed a video to walk you through my design process for this project and how I'm looking at the layout this week. I'm also using new equipment, and the shipping department set up some lighting. So this is my first run with all this. We'll be fine tuning it so that I can develop a lot of short videos walking through different tips, techniques and everything I am working on! Leave me a comment to let me know... Read more →

Merry & Bright Sew Along the Layout

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies With September, Fall officially arrives for those that took a quilting slow down in summer, you are ready to swing back into action! This is the perfect week to give you my Merry & Bright layout. So THIS WEEK is the Layout for our weekly block. NEXT WEEK is the regular Block #6 ... are you ready? The layout has the blocks and a border, see next photo There are a few things I want to point out so you have all the info and can decided how YOU want your setting blocks to... Read more →