Hi my friend!

Thank you for the support and friendship over all these many many years! (26+ but whose counting?)

My patterns are for your personal use only. If several of you want to make my pattern, each of you needs to download your own copy. The website will be here for awhile, but not forever.

Watch my past videos, including my last video with a look back at things I’ve done at YouTube/PatSloan

Pat Sloan 10/31/2026

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2025 Issues

– As you know 2025 was a dumpster fire for me.  I had my website company close and NOT move us to another location. I had 2 weeks to move my entire website to a new system, my newsletter company closed, another business service I use had a massive change, and I was in Montana to help my mom move. Mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I spent 6 months helping her until she died at the end of 2025. (you can watch my tribute video to my beautiful, smart, and wonderful mom at https://youtu.be/8uPlZEuZ7e8?si=WJ65yVdN7-LiXoAg )

Since I have been in business for 26 years, all of it online, there is a massive amount of data that did not get moved over in the 2 weeks I had to do it. I do not have plans to add things back. You can try the way back machine as sometimes the pages are still there. Unfortunately I had many website names over the 26 years and ran multiple blogs. That means I have a massive amount of data across several places and not everything was saved.

–If you encounter an ERROR PAGE – If you get a 404 page or any other type of error, use the SEARCH feature at the top right of my website. You can also check the wayback machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/ilovetomakequilts.com to find content that didn’t transfer during the move. Alternatively, you can search Google for ‘Pat Sloan’ followed by whatever you are looking for, that often will get you to an item.

OUT OF PRINT

– If you can not find something, then it is out of print. Like your favorite ice cream flavor that they don’t make anymore, it is just not available. The company won’t just produce one container of it for you, you have to find a new flavor. That is the way it is for my out of print Patterns, books and fabric lines. I own them, but if they are out of print, then you just need to find another project to do.

Articles – Below are all the articles I moved or have written recently, with the most current article at the top

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If you subscribe to my main site articles.. sorry for 2 in a day! This is a crazy week with everything coming out. I even have LOADS MORE to share! BUT.. let’s take a look…. Here is my Scrappy Among the Stars block!  I had such fun pairing 2 fabrics for each 4 patch. I […]

Have you been dying to know about the BIGGEST block in my Solstice challenge?  I can’t wait to see what you do with this block… and I have bonuses.. let’s get to it! “Among The Stars” is super sized, which is bigger than Upsized!  at 32″ finished you can make a dent in your scraps […]

In 2016 my Row quilt ran each month in American Patchwork & Quilting magazine. I had SUCH fun designing this! Plus I loved seeing your versions.. so inspirational! If you missed an issue, or the entire thing (I know.. I can hardly believe you did either!) …. Now you can make my quilt! DOWNLOAD the […]

If you have not listened to my talk show yet, I had a SUPER show on Monday and I think you should take a listen. With 6 years of shows already, there is a lot of super quilting talk that you can listen to while sewing, ironing, waiting on people like we have to do. […]

Thank you for joining me in making my Solstice quilt! This is a free pattern, and today I’m sharing a photo of the layout!  This quilt is my journey to do a project from the first day of Winter Solstice to the First day of the Summer solstice. That is 182 days this year. I […]

All this wild and crazy weekly sewing… makes you really stop to think about how you do things right? I find I MUST store my fabric together for projects or I go nuts looking for it. A few people asked me about the storage container I use, I like these bins that stack really nicely […]

I am the host of Aurifil’s Designer of the Month program for the last 6 years. And during that time we have had so many cute projects from our fantastic designers!  I suggested to the Aurifil we run the 2012 Embroidery Block of the Month again as it’s darling and many of you might have […]

How is your cutting mat, rotary cutting blades? Are you still using the same rotarty cutter you bought 15 yrs ago? time to update and upgrade quilters! check them out! For some weeks of this challenge I’m spending time looking through old notebooks and sketches. After all these years I see a shape or the […]

Are you enjoying my new site ‘I Love to Make Quilts’?  I sure am!! It’s SEW exciting to see your Solstice blocks pop up on Wednesday!  My goal is a twice a week post for this website, the second will be either another fun quilt along I am hosting, maybe a cool deal I spotted, […]

Some great fabric sets in the clearance right now.. check them out! Surprise….. Applique today!  I know a LOT of you are new and this will be a new technique for you.. way to go jumping in and learning new things!  I appliqued on my very first quilt. It is NOT hard or scary.. it’s […]

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