Pat Sloan's Blog

Pat Sloan: Behind the scenes and Quilts by You!

Roberta shared her "Traffic Jam"!

And Karen made another!

She told me the border fabric has been in her stash a long time and was PERFECT!

CLICK HERE for my FREE "Traffic Jam" Pattern

And look at Deb's Dragon fly from Brambleberry friends

CLICK HERE for all the Sew A Long posts and CLICK HERE for my book!

Sharing a bit of Behind the Scenes at Quilt Market

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This is my show and tell today!!

Now I'd love to see YOURS! Put a direct link to your latest blog post, your flickr folder (did you share something new?), your pinterest board, or how about your latest project loaded to craftsy?

Click the blue box and follow the directions..let's have some fun!

I can't wait to see your latest quilt, finish, start or pile of yummy fabric!

Pat Sloan: Search and Rescue UFO Busting Tip 5

UFO busting is SO important. Because if you have these UFOs around giving you guilt, you just can't have any fun. Am I right?

My UFO Busting Tip 5 is the "Search and Rescue"

It is VERY important one

Ask yourself these questions

• When was the last time you actually SAW the top of your cutting table
• Is your ironing board piled HIGH with crap that needs put away.. .. treasures you purchased?
• Do you HAVE your newly selected 3 to 10 UFOs in a spot where you can actuall GET to them? 
• Where are your Scissors, rotary cutter, favorite Ruler, needles and thread (pick one ..or all!)
• Can you just SIT DOWN and sew at ANY time? Or is the machine covered in projects that you have to move
• Do you have a project 'at the ready'..and what is it in? No it does not count if it is in a box under the bed in other room 

Do you see where I'm going with this one? 

You need your STUFF at the ready.

Don't waste precious time

• hauling out the sewing machine
• looking for your rotary cutter
• clearing off the ironing board
• hunting for your hand work so you can take it with you

And this all got put here since MONDAY

well maybe NOT ALL.. like my blue bowl

I have no clue WHAT is in the blue bowl.. not good

*********** I think if we had THIS Ironing Board Cover ************

************ We'd be able to find it the board ************

Just saying....

If you know where to purchase put that cover tell us in the comments, I couldn't find any stores except in the UK.. mmmm.. what's with that?!

Your assignment

• Identify THREE organization things that make it HARD for you to get to work
• Tell me what they are in the comments
• Now FIX THEM (yes clear off that ironing board and KEEP it clear!)
• Reward yourself when that is done
• Share BEFORE and AFTER photos at Flickr!!

Let's GO SEW!

Share what you are working on HERE at my flickr group

CLICK HERE to get in on the chat at QuiltMashup.... get support anytime you need it

Pat Sloan: Is purple my color or maybe teal?

There are always so many amazing photos from the trade show being shown online and at Facebook. This time I tried to get in 'more' than usual, but my time at the show was very full of meetings and working my booth. So I didn't get to walk the rows like I normally hope to.  It seems the "Breakfast meeting" is the "New Black" so I was busy from sunup to sunset!

Let me share a few other show photos.. you can see more by CLICKING HERE and then going forward for a few days

I thought this was super cute and I love the girls! What drew me into this booth was the display of red/orange walls, white fur bean bags and the pink in their outfits and hair!

Fantastic Display in Valori Well's booth.  If you put a cute typewriter in the display I am bound to take a photo.. it's the law!

A whole lot of items in the Thermoweb booth were made in my new fabric!

Every market the Moda designers that are there will get up and talk about their new line and we often have a running 'theme' thanks to the Marketing Director at Moda, Lissa Alexander!

This year our theme was SIZE MATTERS and we have a block to share about the blog hop that will be happing in Sept (TOTAL FUN.. you know that.. right?)

Everyone told me this was one of the best presentations at market.. BAR NONE.. serious... we had SO MUCH FUN!  The Fat Quarter Shop recorded it, it's a bit long so if you want to see me

..... skip to 15:35 to see me!  Do you like me in Purple?

My best friend Victoria Findlay Wolfe debuted her new fabric line for NewCastle!

CLICK HERE for more photos at her blog

And I got the 2012 Aurifil Block of the Month all quilted!! Victoria took this photo during the schoolhouse I did.  The quilt is going to Milan to the Aurifil offices.

CLICK HERE and then go to the Free Pattern page for all 12 patterns and the setting! I'll do a post about it in the near future.

I saw a LOT of great shades of Teal... that might be my 'New Black'.. instead of Breakfast meetings.. wink!