Pat Sloan's Creative Talk Network: May 2013

Pat Sloan: Scrappy is Trending, getting over the fear to start and other uses for your fabric

How is THAT for a title? Scrappy is Trending, getting over the fear to start and other uses for your fabric... this show jams all that and MORE into it!

CLICK HERE to catch up on my prior shows! Just sroll PAST the show description until you hit the "Disco Ball". Once that comes in the player is there!

Here is what you can look forward to on my show today!

Guest - I think Scrap quilts are 'trending' right now. Everyone has those bits and chunks left over and we want to know how to use them. I meet Kim Brackett when we were both teaching at a show. She is the author of three books FULL of scrap quilt ideas. Today Kim is going to share some scrap quilt planning with us!

Blog address: www.magnoliabayquilts.blogspot.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kim.brackett.77

Guest - Leah Day is back this month to talk with me about getting over the 'fear' of making the right decision for your freemotion designs. I think that is something we all battle and we both have ideas for getting you over that hurtle of 'what to quilt'

www.FreeMotionProject.com
www.DayStyleDesigns.com

Guests -Kris Sazaki and Deb Cashat (Kris is on the left, Deb on the right).of Pixeladies. You may have their fantastic Book Furoshiki Fabric Wraps, or maybe you follow their blog pixeladies.com. They are chock full of information about uses for your fabric, plus they teach digital workshops that I know you are going to find super interesting if you have ever wanted to dabble in photoshop. As they say "it is much more than just putting a photo on fabric"

www.pixeladies.com

www.facebook.com/pixeladies

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Pat Sloan: Options are GOOD, in the museum and nifty tricks

CLICK HERE to catch up on my prior shows! Just sroll PAST the show description until you hit the "Disco Ball". Once that comes in the player is there!

Here is what you can look forward to on my show today!

Guest - Nancy Allen is the author of the new book from Martingale called "Triple Play Scrap Quilting". I am always excited to see a new way to use scraps..and this one is triple the fun! Nancy is going share how the book came about!

Blog: http://bountifulheirlooms.blogspot.com/

Guest - I love learning about the quilt and texitles museums across the country. I invited Nancy Bavor, the Curator of Collections at the San Jose Museum of Quilt & Textiles to tell us a bit about the museum and what they have to offer.

http://www.sjquiltmuseum.org/

Twitter: @SJQuiltMuseum

Facebook: San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Guest - Designer Mary Andra Holmes and I meet on Twitter. Then one year at the trade show I was walking around at the end of a LONG day of set up .. stopped to chat with someone who said OH here is Mary Andra that you twitter with! WHAT FUN! Mary Andra is 1/4^th of the quilt design team called "Sisters Quilting Trunk". I asked her on the show to tell us about her quilt journey, working as part of a big team and share a few tips with us! ..

http://sistersquiltingtrunk.blogspot.com
www.sistersquiltingtrunk.com
Twitter : MahSistersQT

Leave me a comment ...

Do you have any questions for Nancy, the other Nancy, or Mary Andra?

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Pat Sloan: My Favorite Shows - Chatting with Amy Butler and Color expert Christine Barnes

This year I'm going to rerun a few of my really fantastic shows for you. You may missed them the first time around, or you may have been listening since the beginning. Just like sharing a favorite quilt pattern, "My Favorite Shows" will be sprinkled throught the year, and of course on holidays!

In case you didn't know, I also have a lot of show that I taped before I started to work with American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine. You can CLICK HERE to listen to those!

The "My Favorite Shows" Segments are available right now, so you do not have to wait until show time to hear them. Today the show is from August 22, 2011. CLICK HERE and scroll to the player and then scroll down on the player to this date!

Guest -Sometimes I have to take the opportunity to ask someone on the show when I see them, and in the case of this guest we were at the trade show and well... the first time I saw uber talented Amy Butler was in the ladies room! Intros over the sink, asked her on the show and here she is!

Website - www.amybutlerdesign.com

Facebook - www.facebook.com/amybutlerdesign

Guest -I'm really excited to talk Quilt Color expert Christine Barnes. Her new book 'Quilters' color club' is totally fabulous! She is going to share a load of insider tips on making your quilts rock with color

Website -www.christinebarnes.com

Facebook facebook.com/ChristineBarnesDesign

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