Pat Sloan's I Love To Make Quilts

Quilt Your Own Quilt Assignment #3

Article continues below this Ad Today I'll show you what I've quilted so far on the top 2 rows of my Grandma's Kitchen quilt.. ready? Assignment #3 Missed Assignment #1, CLICK HERE Missed Assignment #2, CLICK HERE Since I've written an entire teaching book on how to quilt your own quilt, we'll be using that as our tutorial, and I'm quilting my Grandma's Kitchen quilt with my walking foot in rows which is very manageable. I have my plan in place, let me show you See page 22 - I'm quilting vertical rows with my walking foot for many of... Read more →

Share a Photo of Your Final Grandma's Kitchen Quilt!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies One of the advantages I give you in my sewalongs is publishing the layout early. My Grandma's kitchen layout was published in the middle of October. Many of you took advantage of this so that when I gave out block 25/25 you were able to sew it into place and have a whole top DONE! Now it's time to show it off, PLUS I have a giveaway for someone that has shared. I am giving you until late January to post a finished top or full quilt, details at the end! Holy cow was... Read more →

FREE Block 25/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along.. The last block!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Block 25 of 25 in my Grandma's Kitchen... is..... Famous Cookies! If you have read my stories you know that my grandma's really didn't cook well, so there are not a lot of family recipes. Granny, my dad's mom, used to make amazing Sugar Cookies that my dad loved. At some point as an adult he told me about them. Since Granny wasn't with us anymore, I decided to ask my Mother-in-Law if she might know of the type of cookies my dad remembered. She had a recipe for 'Very Good Sugar Cookies'.. which... Read more →

FREE Block 24/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along.. almost done!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Are you itching to wrap up this sew along? Here we go with Block 24/25 ... Grandma's Kitchen held her purse! Did ALL grandma's have a big purse or was that just mine? I actually have a quilt in progress that I got stalled on manyyyyyyyyyy years ago with my Na-Na's purse on it. I tell you about her purse in the pattern. I got that quilt out when I started this project and thought about how I want to finish it. Since I started it so long ago.. I thought maybe I wouldn't... Read more →

FREE Block 23/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along + great find!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies I think getting to the last blocks of any project are the MOST exciting moments! Block 23/25 in my Grandma's Kitchen is a 'free choice' memory. I think everyone has 'That One Item' that triggers wonderful memories about Grandma. It might be a food, a fabric, seeing your cousin with an expression that looks just like the one grandma did. Mine is her rolling pin... can't wait to hear your memories!. When I went to make this block cutting the stripe the 'normal way' just didn't give it any spark! It's really easy to... Read more →

FREE Block 22/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along + a fabulous deal!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies It's late November but for Grandma's kitchen we are in bloom with Block 22/25! Flowers are the common thread for the women in my family. Most didn't grow them, but fantastic flowers from neighbors, like my Na-Na... or a deep love for flowers like my mom. One of my great-grandma's always had African violet plants, which I loved! Are you having fun reading my stories and digging deep for your family stories? The layout.. with only 3 more blocks and we finish! ** NOTE THE SCHEDULE CHANGE ** at our table of blocks. I... Read more →

FREE Block 21/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along + a cool use of fabric!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies For Block 21/25 in our grandma's kitchen, it's an item I knew from the start I'd include. With a grandma who worked at the phone company and the phone being the way to stay in contact for my grandma's, Telephone Time had to be part of this project! If you follow the button club, you'd seen my phone. I adjusted it to fit this block. My more modern Granny had the wall mounted phone in the kitchen. But my half a modern Na-Na, who was a telephone operator, had an old fashioned black phone... Read more →

Let's chat 2 up coming Sew Alongs!

I did a video chat about two up coming sew alongs using my books. You have been making some basic quilts, but only following videos, now you want to use a pattern and are not really sure how the directions work. My skill building sew along will answer those questions and much more! Most of us are quilting our own quilts on the same machine we piece with. And doing a huge quilts is daunting, and freemotion is scary. I will show you how easy it is to quilt in sections with your walking foot, everyone is successful! I'll be... Read more →

FREE Block 20/25 Grandma's Kitchen Sew Along + a fabulous deal!

Article continues below these Amazon Goodies Before we go to Grandma's Kitchen I want to say how blessed I am to have spent some time with Nancy Zieman. She was a guest on my talk show several times. We did internet projects together. I hosted the Babylock Destiny II launch party with her. And my friend Heidi Stock who works at Missouri Star Quilt Company posted this photo she took of Nancy taking a photo of Jenny Doan and me at the last Babylock event in July. I'll remember Nancy as not only a fabulous teacher, but as a sewing... Read more →

Do you want to quilt your own Grandma's Kitchen?

So many people want to quilt their own quilt, so let's do it with Grandma's Kitchen using my Machine Quilting book! If you have another quilt you want to use instead, that is totally fine! Here are my rows. I'm going to quilt with the walking foot following techniques in my Machine Quilting book I will have a BONUS of showing you how I do Quilt As You go in sections. I did a chat about this, you can watch it... and I have my Taco Soup recipe at the end! See below for things I talked about in the... Read more →