How I starch & Scrapalicious Round up

[@PatSloan]

::Birdsong Fabric is IN! Fabric & Kits at shrsl.com/3ivk0 ::Table topper Book Tour :: May 23 to 28 with 12 tops and me! All with book giveaways Book shrsl.com/3i6km Kindle ver of Book amzn.to/3a8JdZz

[@sharonlyman3029]

That red and white lattice is absolutely gorgeous. Love it.

[@lorettaclinton6604]

The unicorn is adorable!

[@Charlie-cz3jh]

I love your aqua/ mint green checkerboard quilt❣❣❣So pretty😍

[@patcook1280]

Red is my fav..fits OPEN 2022 theme in business.. it is on my radar

[@sandrahart9190]

That is absolutely beautiful. I. Love it💕💜💜🦋

[@deborahdelisle35]

What a fun show today! I’ve been saving my red scraps for the 4x4 blocks! 80 thousand…Remarkable!!

[@jenelks1495]

Some little girl is going to be really happy with the unicorn quilt!! So pretty!!

[@joyscranfield5527]

WOW! Today was a great day at your place! Don't know where to begin...the aqua blocks are perfect

[@susanlusk9584]

Almost 80K! That is awesome! I've been following you for a long time. Well, since the beginning of my quilting journey. Your videos are so fun and informative. I always learn something or you shore up some tid bit of knowledge I want to learn more about. Thank you!

[@dot7146]

I want to make a checkerboard quilt. I just can’t decide on a color way. I like so many. 😂 Bird Song quilt will be spectacular!!

[@victoriacompton2594]

Ooh me - ooh me! Ha ha. My day just got ent complete without hearing you say “Hello my friends , it’s Pat Sloan”. I’m going to get my sisters, cousins and husband to subscribe to your channel today! Love you my friend 😘🥰💜

[@victoriacompton2594]

I meant to type my day just isn’t complete without hearing Pat say hello and her adorable little giggle 🥰

[@janetuesday6473]

I have made about 8 checkerboard quilts since seeing your quilts. I have started incorporating my "orphan" blocks in with the checkerboard blocks, usually running them from corner to cornrr.

[@nancyandersen615]

Great idea!

[@nbc911]

Yes a great idea. Thank you.

[@jshipard54]

Agree great idea! Thank you!

[@doraleetrent1802]

I love, love the aqua quilt!

[@sharonrobinson9958]

Wow! Almost 80 thousand subscribers!! Amazing! You are so fun to watch & I am always learning something just about every video. Thank you so much for doing the videos!!🥰😘❤️💚💙💜💛

[@chrisdollery5166]

Hi Pat,I have just found you, I heard so much about your beautiful quilts ,and your books,I will be visiting my local quilt shop tomorrow,Yah Thank you.

[@PatSloan]

I'm so happy you finally found me!

[@notesfromleisa-land]

Love the minty green!

[@cathinuferrous2336]

Could you make your show longer LOL, wink wink 😉 I usually watch your show as my morning wake up ritual… and sometimes I just don’t want the show to end cuz I’m just enjoying sitting here with YOU and don’t want to get going on my day 🙃🙃☺️

[@PatSloan]

thank you!

[@cynthiakeith2548]

Dark charcoal gets my vote Pat! I think that ties it all together the best!

[@gwynwellliver4489]

I love scrappy days.

[@kimcarter1810]

I love so those crumb blocks. Someone I going to love that unicorn, so precious.

[@melindafisher1584]

Your use of the 2" blocks just makes me happy! And motivates me! I vote to chop off some of the center square to fit -- it's such a cute red & white creation. Lots of fun stuff this morning! Thanks for your videos.

[@jonijecklin4394]

Aqua, aqua, everything aqua! ;) I love every shade of blue, but aqua is one of my favorites! So pretty.... :)

[@1echowoman]

Good morning Pat, I fell in LOVE with you after watching the Basal cell episodes, I am an every 3 month body check girl. had a atyp melanoma last year and SO I retired! Thank you for all the inspiration in life and in quilting! I am a Quilt for Ukraine participant. Just sent 7 to the Czech with my future daughter-in-laws Mother 10 days ago...checkerboarding here I come! I look forward to watching you daily!

[@dottykupsky4831]

My fat quarter bundle has been shipped, so I'm anxiously awaiting its arrival!

[@maryannscanlon7042]

Made me laugh! ‘They all have to be mess around with!!!” Yep. That what it feel like when you get stuck into the endless layouts!

[@marieerickson9695]

I’m so excited to see the Birdsong fabric is arriving! You make me smile everyday, so thank you for that! Have a lovely day!

[@charlotted6247]

I love love love the red and white quilt. It's so awesome!!! I think that is gorgeous ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@BusyMagnaBee]

My mother and grandmother both used a sprinkling stopper in the top of a soda bottle to moisten their ironing with water or starch. When they wanted a really stiff starch result, they would mix up a solution in a basin and dip the article into it, hanging it until it was just damp before ironing.

[@karenchampion3368]

Oh my I love it just make it square

[@GiGi-si9mo]

I am motivated now. I have so many 2 inch squares that were gifted to me. I have a couple of panels so hopefully I will be able to make a border using the squares. Once again thank you Pat. So many very useful ideas and tips tonight.

[@rhondapeterson4628]

You always have such fun quilting ideas! Thank you 😊 winning one of your quilts would be so exciting 😀

[@nilenethompson-finn9062]

Wow! Lots of fun things today! I am in love with your scrappy 2.5” blocks. I have started my own but as a quilting newbie, my scraps don’t fall into major color stories yet! LOL The pops of red in the aqua blocks are awesome and really elevate the design. I am crazy excited to begin Summer Camp and can’t wait for the BirdSong QALs and the book sampler! Whew, it’s going to be an awesome summer! 😍😍😍

[@37debbiek]

Great information today! Thanks for all your help with improving my quilting.

[@michellejaggard9657]

Just add a red stripe on each side of the block where the open space is. It would look great!

[@susanhickman8695]

Make crumb blocks going east and west in the middle. Easy peasy

[@lauralinash5341]

Square stash!!! Love ❤️ it!🤍💙🤍💚🤍🧡🤍💛

[@gaylewade8485]

I have already ordered my panel and a fat quarter bundle. Yeah!!!!

[@rethamoore4282]

Pat , on the red one with the space you could use a white background and using red or black you could embroider a sweet saying in these two spaces. Just an idea.❤🙂

[@rondavlan]

I would keep as is and put a sashing on the two sides of the rectangle in the middle between the blocks.

[@cindyferree9872]

Make the center a square:) It be so much easier! I like the aqua quilt, too:)

[@jokelly1762]

Love the little birdie. And the new fabric. I plan to purchase some.

[@noraharnett1842]

Soooo many projects coming up! Love all of them ❤️ and I can’t wait to do them!,

[@sherriewilhite5343]

Love love love the birdsong fabric!! Can’t wait to make a quilt. You have inspired me to make a checker board quilt and Inhave started saving 2 1/2” squares.

[@houseinnorthcarolina9439]

Pat, concerning the red quilt...try moving the two side squares to middle of the center design. Then add a piece above and below the two side blocks. I can visualize this. What do you think? Suzanne

[@PatSloan]

then I lose the secondary design going around

[@tinatippin5705]

Your Birdsong is so yummy. Congratulations!

[@Hiker_who_Sews]

Hi to the Sloan Zone! Table toppers and smallish artsy quilts excepted, I prefer bed shaped (rectangle) quilts. I was kind of visualizing the red and white quilt with stripes between each of the side squares to keep the rectangle shape. I know square quilts are very popular and I'm in the minority, so regardless, I'm sure your quilt will turn out beautiful. I mean...red, red, everything red!!

[@tonibergquist61]

Good morning dear Pat 💖

[@emilou9654]

I would chop of red & some of white strip then add a correct size red to make central fit 💕

[@cherylbrown4058]

I have been doing four patches as my leader and ender projects, and seeing how you do 16 patches makes so much sense. It was like a light bulb going on. Four patches are great but you need to do a lot of planning to use them. The 16 patch is a block ready to go! Lightbulb 💡. Thank you.

[@sk8rmome]

I bought your Tantalizing Table Toppers book and just love it.

[@Indycule]

Your works in progress are adorable 🥰

[@lindaprice9242]

Love your idea of the leaders and enders to make your 4 in quilt blocks!

[@marlahanks7278]

Hi Pat! I love when you show your blocks from squares! I only wish I had that many blocks 😊 And of course love, love the red & white strips blocks. I made some like that I think it was last year when Gudrun had a sort of challenge idea to use up 1 1/2" strips. I had quite a bit of a honey bun left over from another project that I used. I ended up with 18 of the 7 1/2" blocks! I used 10 for a table runner for our coffee table & am still contemplating what to do with the other 8. Also, just did Gudrun's recent "Strip Along" using jelly roll strips. I did mine 8 rows across by 12 rows down. After watching you so much, I decided to sew them together into "chunks" of 4 x 6 blocks. It was SO much easier & more manageable to have 4 larger sections to work with than 12 rows!! Thanks again as always for your great tips 😊

[@cherylschuller2999]

I bought the fat quarter tower for midnight moon and I starch the fabrics as I am using them. It doesn't seem like such a mountainous job that way. Love the strawberry quilt. I made it earlier this spring and it is at the quilters now.

[@DianaSmithMB]

I got my book for the table topper and I love it. just can't wait to get started on one.

[@jokelly1762]

Just ordered the Bird Song fat quarter bundle. It’s so pretty and a little different than the other popular fabrics right now.

[@vivianburrus8085]

Good morning! Love the squares blocks! Love the red strips top! (FYI: I love super scrappy anything, LOL!!) Have always loved your "color + light squares" quilts. Have long wanted to make an "all yellow" quilt and have quite a bit of stash but haven't decided on what to make yet. Maybe this would be a good way to start off.

[@sewchicknolan6594]

Good morning from MS

[@8machines62]

I have the Strawberry pattern. Will get the fabric. I didn’t realize there would be a kit.

[@kathrynbruton9065]

Good morning!

[@suelee3606]

Pat, you could embroider 2strips (either label, flowers or positive sayings and put that in the extra space so you don’t have to do a lot more more on the strip quilt.

[@mindytaylor26]

Good morning, Pat. I have a suggestion for your red scrap strip quilt….. you could just put a red or blue wide stripe where you need to add or remove fabric. Im just kind of random like that. Would be just a pop of fun, and done.

[@lindapryor8182]

Love your red quilt can't wait to see it finished

[@maryswarts2282]

Am working on 2 1/2 blocks also...it is sew fun!!!!!

[@karenpfeffer5071]

Ordered your bird song fabric in the pink color way on Saturday! Cannot wait to see it in person!

[@jeanmclellan1823]

Do a set of smaller blocks to make up the extra space and put them in the middle

[@terryblair966]

I love the small squares and the color coordinating that you used, they are beautiful. I did see the bird pattern material that you came out with and it is lovely. I hope to receive some including the blue panel. Thanks

[@karendowd4467]

I wonder on the red strips quilt if you could add a scrappy sashing between the blocks on the sides to fill in the spaces and then you wouldn't have to rework the center??

[@PatSloan]

i lose the secondary design

[@karendowd4467]

@@PatSloan didn’t think of that.

[@BexfromTexas]

I'm looking forward to the birdie block, so cute! & I would love to win!! I would like to catch up and do Won't You Be My Neighbor quilt:) Love love the aqua!!! We just painted our bedroom a pale aqua b4 hubby had knee replacement surgery. I love aqua ❤

[@mambakind]

I'd be tempted to add PIECED coping strips to the center square.

[@dawnlunn2405]

Pat, keep it simple and chop off the bottom of the center square to point where it is even with adding the triangle blocks evenly! It will appear as an "ECHO" down the center and wouldn't have to be a perfect square. Like it??? It is such a lovely piece as it is!

[@nadinemerrick1255]

I keep waiting for the Sweater Weather SAL. I bought the book and whatever pattern you are planning to use, it is going to be great

[@peggymercier4709]

Could you sew the 2.5” squares on the top and bottom of your Red quilt and this would give you the center length to finish the scrappy quilt??🥰🥰

[@huisuk]

Thank you

[@darylratliff3959]

Here is a suggestion on the red striped block quilt. Could you center the two blocks on the right and left between the square middle block (vertically) , then add a red/white sashing on the top and bottom of the middle blocks. Create a red/white "register tape" piece the width you need to cover that gap, both top and bottom. This way, you don't need to rework the middle section. Seems it might be the fastest way to solve your dilemma. Thanks! (Cindy Ratliff)

[@rachelburgener819]

🤔🤔 I really like that idea!!! ❤️😀

[@PatSloan]

doesn't that lose the secondary design?

[@debbiepalmer]

I am also working on quilt with just 2 1/2 inch squares. Mine will be 72”x72”.

[@Kera.S.]

💙😁

[@bellaannecgoff2335]

❤️❤️❤️

[@debmunis4188]

Don't cut it off just put a strip on the top and bottom in a solid red. That would give it balance and have a small place to give eye to rest!

[@annemarsaw1391]

I agree with Deb Pat~ Don't cut it off

[@peggyisme]

norm would have looked great in those aquas and whites

[@sandyhinckley9648]

An idea for your red and white strip quilt. What if you move one lattice block (each side, right and left) down to meet the bottom row. Then the gap is right in the middle of the rectangular center. Create a horizontal strip of the reds so that it looks like they're radiating out from the border of the rectangle. If you keep the size similar to the border of rectangle, then it looks like you' d have to add white horizontal rows. But that might work to fill in so that you can finish it with what you have and still look like it was designed that way. Hope this makes sense.

[@PatSloan]

interesting, not sure I can visualize what you are thinking about

[@sandyhinckley9648]

@@PatSloan I've tried to paste a sort of mockup to help visualize, but can't seem to on this platform. I'll try to email simple image.

[@brendabiffibaldovino8306]

💗💗💗

[@joane8651]

Could you rotate the red and white strip top and one turn would make it bedsize in width and you could add blocks to the new top and bottom...just a thought. I love your blue squares, too!

[@PatSloan]

making is larger is one way to fix it, but I want to do less work than that

[@wannaknit]

You could just design two 8-inch spacer blocks to go in the border, then you don't have to change anything else. The design could relate to the centre square design.

[@judydelaet1471]

On your red scrappy quilt, how about putting some sashing with the side blocks to make the sides longer? Would be an easy fix!!🧵

[@PatSloan]

i lose the secondary design

[@judydelaet1471]

@@PatSloan Oh shoot, I didn't think of that! new plan!!

[@janbrassard7857]

How about adding a strip across at the same place as top and bottom of middle pieced part

[@cindypeace4166]

I wouldn’t cut the center red block. How about incorporating some scrappy spacers between the two side border blocks, at the center point?

[@PatSloan]

i lose the secondary design

[@cecilybailey5720]

When do we hear more about the summer "camper" quilt along???

[@PatSloan]

details at my sew along website and tomorrow I tell you more on my videos.. so always watch my daily videos www.ilovetomakequilts.com/2022-summer-camp-qal.html

[@Thuuunderous_Wizard]

I starch heavily like Kimberly from FQS. I guess bc that’s how I learned to quilt. I’m almost afraid not to starch lol. But it’s also a burden when wanting to piece and not having done the pre work…

[@lauralinash5341]

More than one project going?!? Seams you have like 100 projects going on at once!😆

[@mambakind]

Or maybe coping strips to continue the horizontal stripes of the square.

[@kellydonohoe1607]

Good morning Pat. What if you put a border print or a themed wide strip on the top and bottom of the center rectangle??

[@PatSloan]

than I'd make more blocks. that was one of the options, make it bigger to add more blocks

[@cherylpeters8466]

couldnt you take the side blocks, split them and add in between them

[@diannplatt-roberts8692]

How about a mini piano strip to act as sashing between your blocks. Using the same colors . Then uou don't have to use Jack.

[@PatSloan]

then you lose the secondary design

[@sonjadalglish6544]

Congratulations on your subscribers! Almost there. Love that scrapalicious red & white quilt. Maybe a crazy idea, but what if you used a bit of math to make two bands to fill in the blank areas? With strips of fabric going back & forth faster than the blocks?

[@PatSloan]

then i lose the secondary design

[@sonjadalglish6544]

@@PatSloan that’s why it’s crazy.

[@AvivaHadas]

I know that you use the design wall & move blocks around, plan your next colors, etc. For the checkerboard, do you shuffle the 16-patch units? I see the black polka dot as an example, will you try to disperse them throughout the top with purpose, or just sew them together randomly?

[@PatSloan]

that is why i said i don't arrange them until I'm all done, so that I can get placement

[@bella-bee]

I’ve watched the lady from fat quarter shop starch like this and her layer cake squares end up 9.5 x 10”. Shrinkage happens. So my Q is do you mix starched and un starched fabric in the same quilt. ? Thx

[@suzannemccarter5683]

Where can I find the pattern for the square inside patter and the border diagonal blocks. Thank you. I’m just smitten with these patterns. Help , please

[@sherrymaylee8755]

Can't you make a unit to make a insert strip?

[@PatSloan]

i don't want to lose the secondary design