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I love your pearls of wisdom; the clean slate talk was exactly what I needed to hear. I turn 65 this year, and I've accumulated so many kits and projects over the years that recently it's felt more like there's too much stuff hanging over my head, and I'll never finish them all, and they're taking up so much space! I really need to pare down and take a long, hard look at which projects I'm still really in love with, and which were impulses that I'm just not motivated to do anymore; the ones that just feel like they'd be so much WORK, instead of FUN. I love your channel and appreciate you so much for the time you spend here with us.
I am 74 and trying to finish all my pilled up quilt tops. It is terrible to have to look at my quilting as a race against my years left on this earth. I have so many other tops I want to make. Heaven help me😂😂❤
Oh I feel you, I’m 73 and counted 264 kits plus 100’s of yards of fabric. I haven’t purchased much since we moved in 2020, only to actually finish 1-2 quilts. But time is ticking
Thank you for once again talking about projects and resetting your focus. It helps to hear someone else think through this and give themselves permission to reset. I’m in the same spot and appreciate the company! ☺️
Thank you for reminding us that we have the freedom to change the pattern up to fit our needs!
Hi Pat. I enjoy the way you just chat with us. I feel like I'm having a coffee with a friend. Keep up the great videos.
Block Wed is my favorite day of the week - I can finally relax and talk projects with you all! Let's get crafty and win that extra funding for the Virginia Quilt Museum!" 😄🧵🎨
I have also made a shift to doing more small quilts so I can display them as table toppers, wallhangings, door banners and pillow toppers. Go for it Pat!!
Me too. I have projects that were initially meant to be large and I decided to cut down the size so I can actually finish things! Lol
Loved the chat today about re-prioritizing projects. I’m all in!❤
I love the idea that you are going to make this change. I couldn’t guilt as much when I was working. Now that I’ve retired I have more time to quilt and I Love it! It’s so much fun to pick a project and fabric and roll with it. I’mat the point that I can make a quilt
w/o a pattern, using my favorite colors and fabrics, it the most creative freedom for me. I do have a short list of “must do” , but my creativity and fun are the goals now. Have fun you’ve earned it!!
Everything you do is fun to watch Pat!😊🎉🎉🎉❤
Great show today I posted before that this is exactly where I am in my own head today. I’m retired. I’m 72 and lot of unfinished projects and a lot of planned projects that I’m not going to get to. And that’s OK finally. I’m going to do things I really really want to do and that includes writing a pattern for quilt that I designed that’s been on my bucket list for a super long time and you’re right it takes a lot of time and I’m going to finish quilts that I want to finish and start quilts that I want to start. I want to do just what’s fun now.
You have no idea that you just hit my nail right on its proverbial head. Quilting and cross stitch are what my priority are right now. And I'm quilting and stitching what I want when I want. Thanknyou for the slow down..
And thank yourself for slowing down!!! We love you and will be here through whatever you go through in your life!!
Thank you so much Pat for all your wisdom of knowing of colors and appliqué, the breakfast club was the most fun I’ve had in a long time. Learning new techniques how to appliqué ❣️🧵✂️🪡❤️💗💓💕
I already don’t make everything you make. I don’t have the time. I do enjoy watching your videos every morning! So you do you, I’ll do me!! Enjoy the adventure!
Enjoyed your chat!!
thank u so much for this chat! I am so glad u addressed this issue! I love your channel because u teach outside the box, thank u so much!
I enjoyed your chat while basting very much.
Fantastic fussy cutting and sewing!
Thanks Pat - always love a rethink and it's great that you're doing that. Change is not always scary and it can be empowering and fun. You go enjoy your projects!! I will love continuing to watch you do your thing. Hugs.
Beautiful work from both of you. I love seeing how you solved the issue with your gauze quilt. I loved the cottage you stayed in, so peaceful 👍❤
Loved your chat in today's video.
The tulips and the canning jars are both super cute 👍💖👍
Loved your chat today. Nice to see you reorganising your quilting time.
My daughter helped me go through my projects before I moved in December. There were so many things that no longer interest me. Donating them to a quilt charity that actually could use them to help others brought me great joy. I’m ready to look at the projects with fresh eyes again. Thank you.
Great chat! You are such an inspiration.
I love my featherweight machine. Thanks for video
Thank you so much Pat for being real about your feelings. It makes me feel better to know that I am not alone. I was just thinking yesterday about the fact that I was in my sewing room all day Monday and did not work on any of my own stuff. It was all for customers. I need me time to work on my cherished quilt ideas that I want to make. Hmmmmmm a clean slate. What a great way to think about all of this.
Great ideas - we definitely need to do some shifting and thank you for your daily videos Pat
Good for you Pat, cleaning your slate. I love it
Pat, I am sooooo happy for you making this discovery of yourself and your projects. It makes me happy because I have been worried about you burning out for a long time. I made this discovery of myself years ago. I am a finisher. I like to finish the whole project then move on. Even to the point of using up the small scrap pieces to make a second small project from the remaining fabric that I can donate. This does a lot of things for me. Makes me feel good to donate, keeps my scraps way down and keeps fabric organized. Bigger pieces go to stash. Then I can move onto the next project with a fresh start. It is very freeing to be able to just start fresh on next project without having to worry I have others that still need to be completed. This works for me but I am so excited to watch this next phase of your journey to see what you find out that is the next way you want to approach it. As I said before, I will keep watching you everyday with my breakfast. It starts my day off right so thank you!
I set a plan each year - of what I want to learn, what I want to make, and what I want to finish! Then I work my plan!
Pat I really enjoyed the chat today. I am 71 and I feel I have limited time to get my quilting done. I too want to do what makes me happy. Thank you!
great way to look at things 😊 we all need to just take stock sometimes.❤
What drew me to your channel was your independent thinking about your projects. There are so many cookie cutter content creators who seem to just mimic other you tubers. I understand this is not only what you love doing (quilting) but also a business which creates unique issues. I for one am very interested in seeing how you work through this new phase your life is taking. Cheering you on all the way!
thank you so much!
You look lovely today w your jewelry and that cute top!
I am so with you, Pat. I am turning 74 next month and still have many interests including my quilting. When I first retired and thought I would, finally, have all this time for my quilting I put together several project bins with pattern and fabric. Several of those bins are still on the shelf not just unfinished but never started. Smaller projects appeal more to me these days. It is enciuraging to have a finished project much sooner rather than later. A larger project I fit in here and there while working on the smaller ones.
Hello Pat, I sure love your Breakfast quilt! I enjoyed your "chat time" today and just sharing your thoughts about life. At 71, I'm so much slower and have a ton of projects I'd love to accomplish. Wish I could have the energy to sew after 7 PM. But, we do what we can do and it's ok!. Blessings to you.
The Duchess really does sound great!
thx Pat but showing your thought process...learn so much from you...feel lucky to be a part of your life...best wishes for a fantastic day!!🦋🦋
At 72.5 I already made the decisions that life just gets us thinking about. Priorities change. I admire your openness. Thank you!
Pat, you are an inspiration to me! I have followed along with your quilty life since 2014. I've learned so much from you. You have given so much of your knowledge to your followers over the years. I enjoyed this video very much! I'm thankful you are self-aware enough to reevaluate your work and discern what works and doesn't work. In this I'm also learning! I've taken the opportunity recently to pull out stashed fabrics that I purchased several years ago and repurpose it for another project. It was freeing to do so and to see the beautiful fabric in a finished top instead of put away in a drawer was very satisfying.
I will pray for you as you embark on this new phase of your quilting journey to live in the freedom of creativity that is your passion. I will continue to follow your journey and learn from you as you move forward. Thank you for being real with those who do follow and listen! ❤
Nice chat Pat. I agree. I don’t obviously make everything you make but I enjoy making the things I want to make. We all have many things we want to do at certain times in our lives
Great talk, Pat, and I agree with you completely! I'm with so many other friends in the comments below...getting older and want to make quilts that I fell in love with.
I so agree with you Pat! It is very easy to get overwhelmed with projects. I can't find patterns I want to use and I know I just saw one last week, but WHERE IS IT! I'm 70 and also have a lifetime or two of projects saved up! I've been making more pillows and using old fabrics from clothing I made for our girls (who are now in their 40's) as backing for then inside of pillows so they will have the memories with them. I'm saying NO to more projects and making items I really like and there are so many beautiful fabrics coming out every year to use! I want to make more decor projects for me as I give away most things I make. Trying to make more seasonal items so I can change them out like YOU do. Thanks for the pep-talk for us all. I have a few mystery quilts to finish as I didn't have the right fabrics for a section of the quilt so I stopped....another UFO in action!
Thank you for the project chat on block Wed. As always you inspire and encourage. God bless
Thanks for sharing😊
I've always loved small projects. I get bored doing big stuff! When I first started quilting with you, I was trying to do it all but quickly decided you were crazy to do so much! (I quilt my own) now I am better at picking and choosing. Just don't burn out, Pat. 😘
I really identified with your clean slate talk. I have a lot of projects set aside, including the fabric, that I no longer want to do. My preferences, my style, my skill levels have changed. I want to design my own quilts more, use my own creativity. You gave me permission to get rid of those things hanging over my head and move forward with what I really want to do. Thank you😊
I need to learn to say NO to projects that others ask me to do so that I can do the projects that I have in mind to do.
I think your chat was right on spot. I at one time did a lot of sew alongs now I have to love it. I know at this point samplers are not my thing anymore but I pick blocks to do my own way. The quilt pictures of just that block are cool. I still watch every time but I know what I will or will not complete. Thank for your time
She’s so pretty. I have a black one. I like the red
My life has shifted in the last year or two. Sometimes changes happen slowly and it takes a little longer to realize it. And that’s ok‼️
I love this block! Thank you so much for sharing your inspiring words of wisdom! I am definitely going to rethink some of my projects I am planning to work on. Also your jewelry is beautiful and because you showed us on a video the other day your collection of Brighton bags (which I have a few too :) ) I think they are Brighton pieces which I love! Happy Wednesday and thank you again!
Loved your chat today. I watch you everyday, and would miss you if you went away. Lol, just made a rhyme. You do what you have to do, to feel fulfilled and creative. I also am planning smaller quilting projects, so its not so physically daunting to finish quilting them :0. Playing with fabric is the best! When my mind is going in too many directions I'll go to my pretty fabric cabinet, and sit to go through it and get reacquainted with some of it. I forget how many pretty fabrics I have. When I'm done my soul is soothed, and I'll write ideas on my list. Looking forward to your new journey!
I loved today’s topics. They really spoke to my heart. Thank you!
These videos are awesome!
I love your emphasis on rebooting, clean slate, etc. A few years ago I started an Excel workbook with a list of all the projects I was working on and the status of each one. I update it about once a month...helps me stay organized and actually FINISH things. I also have a sheet in there listing projects I see on your and others' videos, blogs etc. that I would like to do. When I'm trying to decide what to work on next, I look at my list and decide if something still appeals to me (sometimes it doesn't!) and whether I have the perfect fabric in my stash, and that has done a lot to help me make the quilts that really bring me joy.
Beautiful blocks
I so enjoyed your chat today about rebooting or clean slate. I'm there too. I'm working on things I love. I watch your videos every day even if I'm not doing that sew along. I still learn so much. I've been finding myself overwhelmed. There are so many projects I'd love to do but I don't want to wind up with too many UFOs. I'm still working on two quilt tops that are almost done. You have to do what is right for you.
It just takes some of us a bit to get there; and I’m so glad to hear you’ve come to that point. It’s OK, it’s OK and OK for us to do that which we love.❤❤❤
I enjoyed and agree with your Saturday musings.
Loved hearing your thoughts 😊. Not doing much right now. Broke my ankle and strained my knee replacement. So watching UA-cam is my thing right now. All my handwork is upstairs and I could not put enough words together that my husband would understand what I'm talking about 😢. Besides they're 15 steps away!! So, I'm content to watch you! This too shall pass dear Pat Sloan. Linda
I love the idea of a "clean slate". I am turning 70 shortly and have sewing room I don't fit in to sew as I have accumulated tooooo much stuff. I really need to cull my stash and then sew the things I now love, rather than the ones bought years ago that I no longer love.
Hi Pat, as usually I love your chats, you always keep it real. Truth for me is; I have started many projects that "would love" to be able to finished, but because I also run my own medical business it gets hard for me to do so, but in another hand somehow I always find the time to start a new one!
Thank you for bringing me to reality, because I am going to follow your advise and revise what I am doing with my sewing, considering it's only a hobby to me, although I already have half of room full of beautiful fabrics!.
Thank you so much for this chat!
Thank you
Great chat. Since l retired, l realize that l'll never do some of the projects that l'd purchased earlier. Time to reorganize and pass along some things to others.😊
Last year I pulled out a quilt I made using thrifted men's shirts. I like to hand quilt but it is so time consuming and and uncomfortable to do in the summer. So I gave myself a challenge to big stitch quilt it and loved the look. I'm not entering in a competition, it's just for me and as we so often hear "there is no quilt police." Now after listening to Pat talk about working on "dormant" projects I've started wading through those because I'm afraid I'll die and no one will care about all those tops languishing in my sewing room.
That is the way I feel about the passing years. My son wants me to hand quilt but I would take so many years to do that because I have so many tops. 😂👏😂
Loved your chat today! It is always good to review your options and priorities to change things up! Keep on challenging our way to view our quilting journey!
I really enjoy the block/quilt parades. Love seeing all the fabrics.
I loved your clean slate chat. I have to admit, I recently came across a few projects that I am dying to make. They have been on the back burner for awhile and I still love them. And there are some that really don’t do it for me any more. Thank-you for reminding me that I don’t have to make a “big old quilt” all the time. Modifying to something smaller will still scratch that itch. I so love all of your little talks ❤
Okay I thought I would never want to make the breakfast quilt but yours is sure appealing and now I may want to make it.
Thank you for another great video. I have two featherweights and use them for all my piecing.
Hi Pat,
Clean slate what a novel idea, I decided starting in 2024 making smaller quilts twins and full size mostly. Doing more donations to non profits. Thinking about adding more table runners, table toppers and small door and wall hanging.
Rebooting or clean slate is a great concept although needing to include my UFOS in the mix.
You are truly inspiration ing. Thank you for all you do . Happy Quilting 🧵🥰
Hi Pat! Loved the thoughts from Saturday. I'm still in the process of going thru my fabrics/craft items to let go. I'm part of a group of ladies who get together once a month at a little neighboring town that we have access to the community center. Almost every month I take fabrics to give away. Once lady is thrilled to get them to use for backings! I'm thrilled they're out of my house 😊😊 It's been a long process to come to terms with the letting go, but I'm glad I'm finally there!!!
Every spring, I "clean slate" my projects because there are too many learning and joy opportunities to sit in blah land.
Good for you Pat, I would hope that every quilter only works on projects that make there hearts sings. I only make exceptions for someone very close to me that I really want to make happy. My sister wanted the Alaska quilt, a big challenge for me, mission accomplished, she very happy,whick makes me happy. Thanks for all you do. 👍❤️🙂
I’m excited to see you share projects that you are excited about personally. You have created so much content to help develop quilters with basic skills - I’m sure whatever projects you take on will build on that for the group. 😊
It was such a treat to see you sewing with your Featherweight today, Pat! I love my Featherweight and sew everything on her. But I did just buy a Baby Lock Jubilant and need to learn how to use it. I also loved your chat about shifting goals. Thank you for always brightening my day! 🥰
Love hearing your thought process for evaluating your projects and time management. You inspire all of us, so thank you!! 🥰🤗
I'm beginning to something similar, thank you for showing how to adapt a pattern that fits your vision, fabric or time constraints. I came back to quilted witch garden and was not looking forward to all the pumpkins, so i decided to make 3 cats (love the kitties) one for each of my cats. I appreciate all the work you do!
I liked the chat about what projects we do. It is really easy to get caught up on all the beautiful quilt sew alongs, but what do I really have time or the heart to do. Like many others I am looking at making smaller projects. Have a good day
Pat, once again I am in-sync with You. Earlier this year when I did a declutter exercise and went through the patterns and decided that I wasn’t going to make that quilt - not what I want to focus on for skill building. Some of those were kits so that fabric joined my stash (win win). I do have a list of quilts that I have been wanting to make and they are 2024 “playlist” (one being your Oh My Stars). I will weave other projects along with the focus ones depending upon time/size. Even if I do not perform the quilt sewing, I always learn something from your demonstration of the process. Thank You for the smooches and love. Hugs back to you. - Marsha(from NC)
The clean slate approach is very freeing, I've been working on that myself. It's a kinda slow process for me, but I'm happy so far. I've reduced my stash of... Everything!! Lol I have taken up English paper piecing, doing the Dear Jane, some of my blocks look better than others, but that's ok. I'm almost finished with the Old projects that I still wanted to finish. I'm excited to start something new.
Yes!!! Permission for letting old projects go!
I love the concept of clean slate and I loved your chat about it. I have a dream list of quilts I'd like to make and I just keep adding to it. After listening to your chat, I think it's time to review and cull the list and focus on what I really want to make in the current moment. Thank you for these pearls of wisdom! I always learn something when I watch your videos.❤
Fun to see you using the Duchess. You inspired me! I had Jen find me a Featherweight. She refurbished it and had it painted blue. Just love it! The other day I finished making a quilted flannel cover for it and also one for my Bernina 830 Record ( made between '71 and '82). Another great machine that I sewed on in a costume shop in southern CA. I loved working on it so I bought one.ENJOY!
My husband watches all that stuff on TV too. I have a headset on and do handwork or watch UA-cam or Prime Video or music so I can spend time together🤭
Kudos to you got finding a healthy balance in life. You are teaching me to focus on what brings me joy and creating balance.
I like to do what brings me joy and don’t worry about changing things up in a pattern to what works for me. I enjoy your chats.
I am so with you Pat! As I am getting closer to retirement, I am planning all the quilts and projects I just haven't had time to do. I am so looking forward to the next stage of my life.
you will enjoy it!
Love it when you keep it real. We are the boss of our own quilts. To do or not to do or to edit the whole project. You hit it on the head. I have also been taking second looks at things that I THOUGHT I wanted to do and now are finding many times it's not so much! Good on you, Pat. My inherited FW's name is Hazel, after my girlfriend's mother.
Great chat today. Love what you are doing and don’t be burdened with things you no longer are enthused about. ❤️
I like your ‘clean slate’ thought process. I’m having a UFO year with a few quilting friends. We can start a shiny new thing but mostly we are concentrating on UFOs. We all have a list and I draw a number on the first of the month. It’s going really well with lots of projects getting finished, not necessarily as it was first envisioned, sometimes a quilt is turning into a table runner or even a tote bag but the projects are moving along and coming out of coffins (project boxes)!
I was struggling with so many projects, I went back to one of the first quilts I made, loved it, gave it away to a lovely couple that was sadly moving. I kept thinking about how much fun it was to make and scrapped all my present projects and decided to make one for myself, am having fun again!
Wonderful! having fun is the whole point of a hobby
I am having to push myself on my current UFO. Thank you for the pep talk 🎉🎉
I love a quilt parade...especially since I don't do FB.
Congratulations on 110,000 🎉🎉
Love the chat, and it got me thinking. Thanks
I quilt for joy. It brings so much joy to create and make for myself. I gift many of the quilts I make and that gives me joy as well, but the joy of the making part is why I do it. I can't wait to see what is on your list of what brings you joy to create. Whether or not we "the royal we" want to make it with you is ok. I bet many will be inspired by your list! Me, having just found you last fall, I have loved catching up on your journey through your videos. So I watch way more than one a day. I've deep dived into your patterns and plan to create some of your past QALs! Currently planning the scrappy heart quilt and the current sampler from the Celebrates with Quilts book. Made 6 shoo fly blocks last night.
Pat, I really enjoyed your chat. I am so in love with your Breakfast Club quilt that I kept getting distracted by it and had to rewind the video a few times to listen to your chat.😂 I may make 1 at a later date even though it won't fit in my small kitchen.