Do you need help sorting fabric? Secret lives Block #23 & April Calendar

[@PatSloan]

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[@marciedecker9048]

My skin tone fabric would have to be sore of a polka dot with all my freckles and age spots.😂

[@dottiebuckley2873]

Good morning. Beautiful rain in AZ this morning

[@jeno264]

9:40 Oh my, those littal crabs!!! 😍💚😍💚😍💚😍💚

[@margm4]

Never heard of the term snow coming! You’re a fountain of fun! So busy . Xx🇦🇺

[@StitchingtoHealMary]

Love you being real about the accuquilt. And sorting. And the Pantene skin color.

[@patricialeshkow6387]

Received my Ukraine t-shirts today, one for me and one for my daughter. Yay!

[@cindymcfarland4686]

As always, I like the episodes which show you sorting through your stash and how you pick fabrics. Thanks!

[@dot7146]

I have been busy in March. I finished all of my Secret Lives of Color Blocks. I just could not stop. Now to figure out a layout. I also finished my Tula String Bean Quilt and I will quilt it tomorrow on my friends long arm. I started a layer cake quilt and am waiting on inner & outer boarder fabric to arrive. I also finished a Pineapple Quilt I started in January. Your Green bin looks great! I have a wall of cabinets for quilt fabric storage. It is a mess. I have an avalanche waiting to happen if I open a few of those doors. You have encouraged me to get started on sorting & re-folding my fabric stash. I will add that to my April calendar. Thank you for sharing Pat!!

[@sharonoconnor7769]

Woodsy is without a doubt one of my favs…it’s hard to choose you are so prolific!!!

[@conqueringmountscrapmorewi2509]

Hi! I hope you are having a wonderful day and have fun plans for this week. I'm sitting with my hand quilting. I just want you to now that I enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing this video, your energy and your time.

[@patpalmer1337]

I love when you do "trunk" shows of quilts you've made, but, I also love watching your thought process when you sort fabric...Sorting things seems to fit my brain...☺

[@jodigrzeczka6617]

I enjoyed today's video! Very often I end up doing a straightening up if I'm "shopping" for fabric for a project I am planning. I keep all my fabrics in the plastic project boxes of differing sizes. Two years ago, I moved from a TINY (380 sq ft) cottage, and it was overrun with mice! I NEEDED the plastic totes! AND there was really no system, just get the frabric under protection! I also live about 45 minutes from the IRIS factory (maker of the plastic project boxes and totes) which had a warehouse sale once a year. Friends and I would plan around this, and we each had to take our own vehicles so we'd have enough room! That was so much fun. I have a male friend who told me I have the World's Largest Collection of Plastic Boxes! Thanks, Pat, for dredging up these fun memories!

[@jonijecklin4394]

I must have been channeling you, Pat! I spent the last two days refolding and sorting my fabrics. I use my 8 1/2 X 24 inch ruler for the job, and I actually enjoy the process. It feels good to look at those pretty stacks of fabric! I've not been quilting as long as you, so I sort by adult/child, panel/kits, repro/classic/modern, and holidays/everyday. I always have some fabric I think someone will appreciate more than me, and even just seeing it all again is inspirational! Have fun!

[@noraharnett1842]

I desperately need to go through my baskets!

[@joyscranfield5527]

I think a trip to the quilt shop is needed to match my skin tone! I spent a couple of hours searching my stash without any luck! Even took a couple of pieces outside to compare! Lovely visit today! See you tomorrow! I want the secret color book for reading purposes! You have really gotten me curious about color!!

[@roseannecarratkinson4271]

I sure wish they would put the year back on the selvages. I have my fabric sorted by color, but also by designer.

[@christinewilliams2880]

Oh Pat...I am dying over that beautiful piece of out of print Tula Pink from Prince charming that you showed! I only discovered her a few years ago so I missed so many of her great fabrics! If you ever decide you don't love them anymore I will give them a great home! Thank you for all you do for us quilters! My mom and I are wondering if you ever sleep? You truly are a wonder woman!

[@smallfootprint2961]

I would have to use these all up. Makes me nervous to have all this storage. The idea that you know all the origin and history of these is crazy. Just get them used.

[@sonjadalglish6544]

Love the skin tone picture. Once, talking to a young friend, I described my skin tone as melanin deficient. I’m on the lighter side of pale. Amazing to see all the different shades of skin.

[@rhondagarden8878]

You are like my older daughter 😄 She cannot tan, while my younger daughter and I both can get brown as a biscuit. LOL. I'm not now, though. I'm too old to "lay out" anymore!!🤣😂🤣

[@sonjadalglish6544]

@@rhondagarden8878 I can tan a bit, but I’d be so envious of that beautiful tan you can get. Laying out is not so good for us anyway. And at 69, I’m to old for sunbathing, too. Have been for a number of years. 😀

[@susierosefinlay]

Needed a bit more sleep this morning. Love the Pantone skin project. Fascinating. Sorting fabrics and refolding would make so much room in the bin. Your fabric choices for the Woodsy pillowcase are great. Thank you Miss Pat.

[@elaineholmes7544]

I like this book. It took a long time to receive it. It is fascinating. I am a little behind in making my blocks. Thanks for the referral.

[@donnakimball3822]

We use to say busting at the seams. I love the pillowcase for the woodsy. This has been fun.

[@gayleschaefer6300]

I love the quilt on your design wall! You made the right call in choosing the blue/aqua border. Great quilt for a boy or man.

[@patshel4002]

Thank you for the sorting tips. And the skin project is so interesting.

[@bellaannecgoff2335]

I can’t wait to see your pillow case! The woodsy quilt is amazing ❤️

[@lyndathompson9342]

The pillowcase fabric looks great

[@judywindle9660]

I love the Woodsy quilt.

[@lynnehrmantraut9167]

That red binding on Woodsy is spectacular!!!

[@marygeorge9688]

Thank you for your process of sorting/straightening your fabrics. I need to do this. I’m encouraged to get to work on mine.

[@giselaa6111]

I also have to sort my fabric but i rather sew 🤣 eventually it will get done 👍🏻 greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@susanbrown1850]

The green piece of fabric with the veggies would be great for a pie plate carrier ( need 2 - 22x22) or kitchen towel hanger.

[@gwynwellliver4489]

Love the skin tone experiment. That would be fun at preschool! Sometimes sorting fabric seems like a time waster, but whenever I do it, it sparks my creativity and, like you, for es ne to let go of fabric. Woodsy pillowcases just as you showed us.

[@PatSloan]

i never find it a waste of time to tidy up!

[@tracycook7355]

Hello Pat wanted to say wow your fa tics are beautiful. Would it help to have a wooden board to fold your fabric round. I don’t have as much as you so mine is easier. But I find this helpful. I fold and have rounded ends at top and then it is all same size and neat.

[@susanbrown1850]

Love your idea for the pillow case with the brown strip in the middle.

[@kathyhadley4338]

I found some great bins at Dolar Tree! They were in many sizes and colors!

[@marymckay6056]

Great job

[@dawnbarry2985]

Some online fabric stores have a color category "multi-color" for fabric that has no obvious dominant color.

[@marlahanks7278]

Hi Pat! Those photos with the skins matching the Pantone colors was amazing!!! Have you seen the alphabet animals they make from handprints & footprints? Years ago at one of our retreats, my bestie & I cut long rectangles of tan'ish fabric, took black, yellow, orange & pink acrylic paints, aluminum pans & washcloths. We had whoever was willing to do their footprint, and/or handprint "stamp" onto the fabric. We then were going to draw them into animal shapes. She chose to have all do footprints into the black because she was going to make all of her into penguins because she love penguins!! For mine they could do whatever & I put the lighter colors in the pans & let them swish their hand or foot around to kinds make it look tie-dyed or batik. It was fun 😊 I said before & will say it again, I'm obsessed with your Woodsy quilt 💗💗

[@PatSloan]

isn't that so interesting?

[@jeanettewithrow9641]

Makes me wanna sort mine. Thanks

[@jacquelineleibfried4691]

At least it isn’t snowing here in Ohio this morning.

[@rebeccamaccallum9239]

Pat hold onto your blacks for the secret lives of color, as I find the blacks the hardest to find that shade, they are so closely colored.

[@rebeccamaccallum9239]

Love the woodsy, I got the fabric to make one, can we see a full frontal of it pls and tks.

[@PatSloan]

go to my gallery blog.patsloan.com/pat-sloans-quilt-gallery.html click the picture and it will enlarge

[@Hiker_who_Sews]

🦋 Hi!

[@leesapierce4888]

When I sort my fabrics I will say shop at home . I'm not going to buy more fabric..( That last for about 2 minutes ) 😁 There's just too many beautiful Fabrics in the world .

[@maryreece9415]

I absolutely love this video, and the timing is perfect since I am also sorting out my fabrics! Is that green fabric part of your Eat Your Fruits ‘n Veggies line? 🤩 I just bought a jelly roll from that adorable line of fabrics that I can’t wait to sew!!!

[@PatSloan]

It is!

[@AvivaHadas]

After going through the green bin, as an example, do you then decide that you need to shop for hunter green or acid green to round out your green bin? Or does your stash just grow organically or just by the monthly color selection that is curated by the shops that you partner with? I don't sort my fabric...

[@PatSloan]

you don't sort your fabric? How do you find thing? I'm curious! I shop for colors when i need them. Occassionally i'll fill in but not usually

[@AvivaHadas]

@@PatSloan I work scrappy or based on value. So while you looked for a skin tone, I chose darks & lights.

[@rebeccasewing]

When you make your scrappy square quilts in one color (for example the red and white quilt) does any red work or do you pick and choose the reds?

[@PatSloan]

i have Zillons of reds and Zillions of cream

[@kathysharp4422]

Good morning Pat. Another interesting video. I saw your April x-st and wanted to share a pattern I purchased at Fat Quarter Shop. It is Matter in Hand and is a sampler full of scissors, floss, a big tomato pin cushion, etc. Really cute design by Jeannette Douglas. Check it out.

[@pamelahill7164]

How many bins do you have of scrap fabrics

[@PatSloan]

what you see in my cabinet. I also pulled them all out recently on the video and showed you

[@zerozero9085]

Are those 6 bins your only fabric stash?

[@PatSloan]

no, watch my videos zero, i have more and more in my quilt room

[@zerozero9085]

@@PatSloan Whew, glad to hear it, thought I MIGHT need to send you a fabric care package. :)

[@BarbLahman]

We're these yardage or FQ size?

[@PatSloan]

Do you mean all my fabric or a specific pieces? I have all sizes of fabric

[@jeannelafayette7630]

What happened to Norm? I think I miss him!

[@PatSloan]

i told everyone in my video that he would go take a nap for awhile

[@jeannelafayette7630]

@@PatSloan I watch every day I can't believe I missed that......thanks for your reply.

[@mambakind]

Isn't 'nude' the silliest name for a color? My face is motley red, my middle is dead white and my forearms are more brown. My feet are green... just kidding about that one!

[@shirleythomas6377]

The skin tone would be affected by a tan on your exposed skin if you work outside.

[@PatSloan]

that is still your skin tone right? yours just changes.. or check where the sun doesn't shine !