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Pat Sloan's New Book Tour

6/7/2021

Pat Sloan's Holiday Book Tour!

Update 06.15.21
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered and congratuations to Robin J. who is the winner of a copy of Pat Sloan's new book!

Come back soon for more FAB fun and check out our books and patterns via the links you'll find… well… pretty much all over this site!

S&J

If you are a quilter, then you probably already know the name Pat Sloan. Pat is one of the icons of the quilting world and, in 2020, we had the honor of meeting Pat and working with her as part of the Aurifil Designer Block of the Month Series. Now, Pat has a new book out and has asked us to be a part of her blog book tour. WOOHOO!! Pat’s book, Holiday Celebrations – 17 Quilts and More for 6 Seasonal Occasions, contains patterns for quilts and home décor that span a year’s worth of holiday themes. She asked us to pick one project to recreate in our own style and we had to much fun doing just that.

Hello, Luv! from Holiday Celebrations by Pat Sloan

For our stop on the tour, we picked the Hello, Luv! project. This is a classic X’s and O’s blocks made into this sweet little table mat and it was just screaming to be made from improv fabrics.

BTW, Pat… love you to pieces dahling but we have both had Ex’s and Oh’s by Elle King going through our heads on repeat for daaaaays because of this project. We’re not really complaining. It’s not a bad song to have stuck in your head… especially if you remember the video. Just sayin’…

If you’ve taken one of our quilting classes, you know we love these little mats cum mini quilts. They are in the Goldilocks Zone of quilting projects providing you with a way to try out a quilting technique or pattern without committing to a full-size quilt, but you still have something FAB and useable when you are finished. Hang them on the wall or use them as… well… table mats! Use them as the base for your centerpiece or as a resting place for a vase of flowers that you definitely did not pick from the neighbor’s rose bushes that are growing out into the alley that they will never miss because they don’t take care of them or ever come out to look at them or smell them and they are just going to go to waste back there so why shouldn’t you enjoy them?!? *ahem* You get the idea; a little bit of gorgeousness that is both beautiful and useful for a relatively small time commitment. Moving on…

As we said, the Hello, Luv! just screamed for us to use improv fabric. And who are we to not listen? We answered that creative call by using leftovers and odd bits from our last major project, The Colors of My Pride quilt pattern. In this house, we use all the parts of the quilt! No bit or sliver of fabric, or thread goes unloved. Our Improv Hello, Luv! uses Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabric so, if you want to create your own but don’t have a lot of scraps, you can purchase scrap bundles on our website in our Shiba Snacks pack or our Shibaguyz Bento Box.

The Colors of My Pride Quilt by the Shibaguyz

Improv fabric reach to be cut into blocks.

We assembled the improv fabric from our scrap bins of Colors of My Pride quilt fabrics and used the resulting improv fabrics to cut the 5” central blocks from. The quieter parts of the blocks, the fabric that frames the X’s and O’s pattern, is the framing fabric we used for our Colors of My Pride quilt pattern as well. Karla Overton at Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics has some “official” name for it like Shy or something like that. We call it the Devastatingly Gorgeous Pink. That barely-there pink is… well… devastatingly gorgeous.

Once our improv fabric was assembled, all we had to do was follow the steps in Pat’s book! We have not specifically tried Pat’s sew-and-flip technique, so we gave it a try here using the prescribed 5” and 3” squares and it worked like a charm. Our improv fabric is the 5” squares and the pink fabric is the 3” squares.

Blocks ready for trimming and assembly!

Our Improv Hello, Luv!

And, through the magic of blog posts… TAADAA!! We love how our Improv Hello, Luv! mini table mat turned out. Thank you, Pat for the inspiration!

We hope this brings y’all some inspiration to use up some of your own scraps or start a scrap collection with your next sewing and quilting projects. And, if you are new to this whole quilting thing, consider picking up a smaller project like this one and giving it a go!

Giveaways!
And y’all just KNOW that a book tour means giveaways and there are a couple of different giveaways you can enter to win.

First, we’re giving away a copy of Holiday Celebrations that you can win by leaving a comment right here on this blog post telling us what your favorite holiday is. Our giveaway ends on June 14, 2021, at 11:59pm PT. We will choose a random winner on June 15, 2021 and notify that person via email and here at the top of this post… so be sure to leave us your email so we can get ahold of you! Our giveaway is open to both US and international entries. US residents will receive a printed copy of the book and those outside the US will be sent a PDF of the book.

There are also wo big ol’ prize packs you can enter to win from Martingale until June 14 2021 on the Martingale website and on the Martingale Instagram page.

Make sure you take a minute (or several) to visit Pat’s blog to follow along the book tour (and get in on their giveaways too!). And, if you don’t win a copy, you can grab a copy of "Pat Sloan’s Holiday Celebrations" from your favorite quilt shop, or anywhere quilting books are sold including on our Amazon page! (Or download the eBook version of the book from ShopMartingale.com today!)

Here are all the folx on Pat’s book tour. Be sure to check out their interpretations of the FAB projects from Pat’s book to inspire your own projects.

May 31 - Martingale with a grand prize! martingale.com/
June 1 - Jacquelynne Steves jacquelynnesteves.com
June 2 - Andy Knowlton www.abrightcorner.com/
June 3 - Scott Hansen bluenickelstudios.com
June 4 - Amy Smart www.diaryofaquilter.com/
June 5 - Bonnie Hunter https://quiltville.com
June 6 - Fat Quarter Shop fatquartershop.com/
June 7 - Becky Thompson powertoolswiththread.com/
June 8 - The Shibaguyz, Shannon and Jason Mullett-Bowlsby www.designz.shibaguyz.com
June 9 - Bev McCullough flamingotoes.com/
June 10 - Aurifil auribuzz.com/
June 11 - Maureen Cracknell maureencracknellhandmade.com
June 12 - Melissa Mortenson www.polkadotchair.com/
June 14 - wrap up at my evening video patsloan.com/
June 16 Grand Prize announced!

We had a lot of fun creating the fabric for this project and we are so happy and honored that Pat included us in her tour. We hope those of you who are new to our piece of the Universe will stick around for a bit. Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on the latest Shibaguyz news and explore our website for more articles, tutorials, our own books and patterns, and our growing product line of fabric and sashiko tools and notions. And, of course, y'all can find us on social media by clicking on those little icons below this post.

Until we see y'all on social media or in the virtual classroom…

STITCH ON!!
S&J

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