Snowman Love!
Loving this snowman quilt more and more, it's hanging on my design wall for a week... woot! Pick up one for yourself for fabulous price of $34.99 ... grab a backing while they last! (ps.. click the photo for a larger image in the store)
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Arabella Plans
This is a 70" x 70" quilt.
As soon as my Arabella fabric arrives I'll start cutting kits! I'm still taking pre-orders... here are the details.
Option 1- Pay in full for your kit and the cost will be $83.95
Option 2 - Pay in 3 installments. The first charge is when we send you the FULL kit, the 2nd and last installments paid the following 2 months. Each installment will be $30.00.
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Please note that Shipping is extra as it will depend on the size and weight of your actual order.
To PRE-ORDER send an email to me at Pat@PatSloan.com Put PRE-ORDER in the subject. In the email tell me if you are pre-ordering a FQ bundle, a Kit (full or 3 installments), or both.
When the FQ bundles and kits are ready, early February, I will send you an email with a link to the purchase page.... it's that easy!
oh... we will have a SeW AloNG! for the 'A Secret Garden' quilt... won't that be fun! And yes... the pattern will be available by itself, as soon as I get it ready!
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SeW AloNG! - I Believe - January Block
Did you catch up? We are now on the Snowflake block. One of my favorites! In real life they look like they are popping off the quilt.
FINISH the monthly block AND SEND me a photo or a link to your photo... you will be in the running for a little prize... woot woot!
Need the pattern? It is a single pattern or it's in my Folksy Favorites book
Click HERE for the single Pattern
Click HERE for Folksy Favorite book
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Let's do Lunch...Dinner AND Breakfast!
My trips are fun... and I'd LOVE to have more of you hang out with me!! I have a little incentive for guilds to share my trips with your members.. or maybe even to organize you very OWN trips! How fun will THAT be???). More about all this .. but if you can't wait.. send me an email at pat@patsloan.com
Sew Many Places also have a new payment plan for your trips. When you call the office ask them to work with you to develop a payment schedule that fits your budget.. pretty nice eh?
Have you been thinking of taking a vacation? Get a group together and come with me!!! Go see wonderful and exotic places with quilters, hosted by a quilter, run by a tour company that caters to quilters... what could be better? You can even bring your family, I'd LOVE to meet them! On our China trip we had couples, several groups of sisters, and Mother/Daughter groups.. fun fun!
My Alaska trip is May May 23 - 30 2009. There is a quilt shop in every port plus amazing scenery. See the Itinerary at the travel site
http://www.sewmanyplaces.com/tours/alaska_0509.html
And my Bali trip is going to be another trip of a life time. Do you LOVE Batiks, warm weather, exotic locals?? Then come with me Sept 1-10 2009 on my trip to Bali! Have you read the book 'Eat, Pray, Love'... well if you have then you KNOW we must go! See the Itinerary at the travel site
http://www.sewmanyplaces.com/tours/bali_0909.html
So where ELSE will I be?? Check my workshop page at the website!
http://patsloan.typepad.com/quiltershome/workshops.html
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Good Book Cafe
So what good books have YOU read ... did you get some for Christmas? Did you read over the holidays? I put up the first three months of 2009 and hope to have REALLY good reads! Check it out, send me YOUR favorite authors that we have read yet!
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner/good-book_club.html
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Yummy!
Gregg and I tried out my new slow cooker (seems they are NOT called a crock pot anymore).. and we made Emeril's Spaghetti Bolognese. It was FABULOUS.. a bit thin as we needed to reduce it more with the lid off. But it made tons, we froze 2 batches and have eaten them too.. we LOVE pasta!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/spaghetti-bolognese-recipe/index.html
Resident Chef Patty gave us this month's dish "Cheese Tortellini with Cannellini, Kielbasa, and Kale Soup". Thanks Patty, I'll be over for dinnerl!
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner/yummy-recipes.html
Calling all Chefs!!!!
Do you love to cook? Love to take Photos? Love to share? Send me a recipe for the Yummy Recipe page and if I use it I will send you a little 'Fabric goodie bag'. Send your original recipe and photos to me at pat@patsloan.com
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Free Free FREE!!!
Wow there is always SO MUCH happening and I want all of you IN on the fun!
Here is what you will find on my free pattern page
--The NEW quick and easy pinwheel pattern
--The 2008 Good Book Cafe Block of the Month - No setting yet!! If you have an idea send it to me, if I use it you will win a prize! I have a few entries already
--A Newly organized page, all is still there just cleaned up!
--NEW NEW NEW project coming later this month with Emilie Richards.. yes AUTHOR Emilie R and I have teamed up to bring you a BOM based on her 'Sisters Choice' book. We'll be sending a special notice out on JUST this project later in Jan!
http://patsloan.typepad.com/quiltershome/freepatterns.html
-And did you know I have a SWAP list?? We are starting 2 new swaps for Jan/Feb.. so hurry over and sign up to be in on it!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pat-Sloan-Quilts
-AND if this is not ENOUGH fun... Rachel has started a blog for people who want to do my Calendar Quilt project during 2009... woot! I hosted this a few years ago and then put it in my Techniques book.. along with several quilts YOU made!
Maybe you have wanted to do this, maybe you want to finish one you started, maybe you are just learning about it.
.. come one, come all and join Rachel at the Calendar Quilt Challenge blog! And guess what, I'm going to hang out too, I'll post at least once a month... cheer you on and answer any questions you have.
http://calendarquiltchallenge.blogspot.com/
Get the book here.... don't miss the fun! (ps..the book has a TON of things in it.. enjoy!)
http://patsloan.biz/patsloansfavoritetechniquesbook-2.aspx
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Thoughts and a Quote
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating
oneself endlessly. —Henri Bergson |
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony."
– Mohandas Gandhi
I have been reading SO MANY wonderful New Year's posts on blogs the last few days. Resolutions, no resolutions, lists, no lists, words to live by, and many other awesome and inspirational things.
At my blog the other day I was doing the 'big sigh' because I had not 'done' what I was thinking I wanted to do.... a look and plan for the next year.
Then when I sat down to write this newsletter, 4 days into the year, with no time in sight to do this 'plan', I realized that maybe what I need is a bit of the 'now'.
Don't we often get caught up in what we 'need to do'?
The 'if' syndrome.
If I do this life will be better. If I do that I'll be thinner (oh... do you have the answer for that one.. LOL!)
If this happens or that doesn't happen then life will be better.
So maybe this year I will focus on goals, but really truly and DEEPLY appreciate every second for what it is. Not look at coulda shoulda woulda.. but just look at what is and enjoy it. Be grateful, Appreciate the now.
So that is what I'm feeling for the new year. I'm grateful for every second and every person, be it family or you my friends!
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And what ELSE did I do in December.... well I went a TAD CRAZY and started these these.. come join me.. it's awesome fun here at 'Sloanie Central'.... hehe!
Facebook - send me a friend request to Pat Sloanco. Oh and if you are facebook WHIZ KID.. tell me so I can pick your brain!
http://www.facebook.com
Do you play with yarn? Well it turns out LOADS of quilters do! So my new blog is Yarn Mash
http://patsloan.typepad.com/yarnmashup/
And I joined the biggest yarn community around... Ravelry - add me as your friend ... I'm Pattycakes! There is an nice group of quilter's who knit and LOADS MORE!
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And a quote on the slightly SPUNKY side of things!!! This just CRACKED ME UP!
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or
fattening. 
— Alexander Woollcott
