Blog hop reveal -- with prizes!

I'm honored to be among the bloggers participating in this year's VRD blog hop.  

Here's the story behind Villa Rosa: We call Pat Fryer, the owner and the creator of the Villa Rosa Designs brand, our Rose Queen, because she absolutely adores roses.  In fact, her love of roses helped her name her new venture in 2010.  When she designed her first Rose Cards, she had a brilliant and unique idea to name ALL of her VRD patterns after Roses (also why we call them Rose Card patterns).  For many years, all of the patterns were named after roses.  Now we have a collection of talented designers who all have their own covers and logos, but Pat's quilt designs are still named for roses.  If you look at the Villa Rosa Designs patterns, you will see a rose in the top right corner on the cover of the pattern.  That is the specific rose the pattern is named for.  

The hop highlights these five patterns of the more than 600 in the Villa Rosa catalog. -- you can see the Rose Queen's logo on two of them.   Each blogger was asked to make at least one of the five.  

I challenged myself and made all five, using fabric from my stash. 

I used homespun plaids to make Clover, the table runner.

I chose a coordinated palette to make Ebb Tide.  I used free-motion designs by Lori Kennedy in each block.  

The Gypsy Rose pattern was named for  the hybrid rose . (The term "gypsy" is now regarded as a racial slur and Villa Rosa will rename the design.)

The large blocks called for splashy prints.  I cut into my hoard of Lida Enche and Serious Whimsy prints.  

I began Twinkle with the sage green. How could I liven it up?  I opened the box of realistic florals and here's how it turned out.  

I used up all the sage but I still have a few quilts' worth of florals.  

The pattern called 31 uses a panel.  My first reaction was that I don't do panels, but a search of the stash turned up this one.  I bought it at a church rummage sale about 15 years ago. It's a Dutch batik ("wax resist" on the selvedge).  The flying geese are batiks.  The spiky borders are all cut from one piece of striped African fabric. I had just enough for this project.  I'm so pleased with the way it turned out. 

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Dutch wax resist prints and batiks

I outlined the birds and stitched along the edge of each spike.

So that's all five -- but there's another, with a backstory.

In 2020 Villa Rosa was a vendor at QuiltCon in Austin.  The Magpies met up for the show.   I made plans to have lunch with librarian friends that Friday while the others went back to the show.  I asked Celia and Ellie to buy a FQ bundle from Villa Rosa, what ever they thought I'd like.  That turned out to be a coordinated group by Quilting Treasures.   

I knew I'd kept the FQs in one bundle, but when I pulled it out of the bin I found 11 prints, not 12. No green or blue?  Hmm, I probably used one FQ for something else (after all, it's been four years).   [Though VRD offers bundles of 11 FQs so perhaps that was it.]

Here's what happened!  The blue background is from Barb M's estate sale.   

There's very little left over.  

Now that you've seen my quilt show, here's the reward:  your chance to win!

(1)  Villa Rosa is giving away a 2024 Blog Hop Rose Card Collection on each participating blog.

(2)  Sponsors have donated prizes.   The grand prizes are a Kaffe Fassett precut collection, a $100 gift certificate to Hancock's, a box of mystery quilty goodies, and an EQ8 download.   There will be three individual prizes for each blogger (books, precuts, notions).  

(3)  A big box of quilt stuff from my collection.  You won't be disappointed.

To qualify to win you need to leave a comment on this post (and to boost your chances leave comments on the other hop blogs).    Your comment needs to include (a) which of the five featured patterns you'd like to make and (b) what book you're reading (or listening to) right now.  If you are "no reply" or "anonymous" you'll need to include your email address in your comment.   No pattern name/ no book / no email = no entry!  (Note: I can only ship within the U.S.)    

I will draw the winning names March 22.   Three entries go to Villa Rosa for the grand prize competition. Three entries will win Villa Rosa individual prizes.  And one entry will win my prize box.    UPDATE 3/22:  I have drawn the winning names and notified them.  

You are welcome to comment but it's too late for the prizes.  

Thanks for reading all the way to the end of the post and for leaving a comment!

P.S.  Here are links to the other bloggers' posts. 

Thursday, March 14

Villa Rosa Quilts — https://villarosaquilts.com/  

 Friday, March 15 

Kathleen McMusings — https://kathleenmcmusing.com/

The Morning Latte — http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
Homesewn By Us — https://www.homesewnbyus.com
Pieceful Thoughts — https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
C & T Publishing — https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

 Saturday March 16 — National Quilting Day!

Needle and Foot — https://needleandfoot.com/
MMM Quilts — https://www.mmmquilts.com/
Texas Quilt Gal — https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
Time 4 Stitchn — http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
SIY (Sew It Yourself) — https://blog.siysewityourself.com/

 

Sunday, March 17 — Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Quarter Inch Capers — https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
Norton House Quilting — https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
Quilting Gail — https://quiltinggail.com/  

Wazoo! Newsbits — http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

 

Monday, March 18
With Strings Attached — https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
Jaftex/Scott Fortunoff — https://scottfortunoff.com/
Cocoa Quilts — https://www.cocoaquilts.com/ 

Quilt With a View — http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

 Tuesday, March 19

Shout 4 Joy — https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
The Darling Dogwood — http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting — www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
Something Rosemade — https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
Quilts of Valor Foundation — https://www.qovf.org/

 Wednesday, March 20 — First Day of Spring! 

Grace and Peace Quilting — https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
Happy Cottage Quilter — https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
Joyfully Tracie — https://joyfullytracie.com/
Patchouli Moon Studio — https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
Electric Quilt Company — https://doyoueq.com/blog/

 Thursday, March 21

Villa Rosa Quilts — villarosaquilts.com