It's finally here--my day to post my Villa Rosa blog hop projects! Each participant was sent these five patterns and asked to make one or more of the projects. If you are a frequent reader, you probably know I make a lot of the Villa Rosa patterns for my charity donations, so I was really surprised to receive five patterns I didn’t already have.
And, you know what? These really are fast and fun! The first one I picked was Gypsy. The name Gypsy refers to a variety of rose. You can see the picture in the upper corner of the card.It uses half a layer cake, and I had one on hand I wanted to use.It made a nice size baby quilt, 36” x 45”, and I had enough squares left to piece a second one. I loaded both tops onto a wide flannel back, and quilted them at the same time. One of my time-saving tricks!I’ve only managed to get one of them bound, but I love the way they turned out. The quilting really shows up on the fuzzy back.
It’s still pretty, just a little large. So my advice on this one is “stick with the pattern”!
There are many opportunities for you to win prizes during the blog hop:
- Individual bloggers may be hosting giveaways on their blogs for you to win. Please visit individual blogs to find out about their giveaways and how to register.
- Villa Rosa Designs is giving away a 2024 Blog Hop Rose Card pattern collection on each participating blog. International winners will win a digital set of patterns.
- Sponsor prizes have been donated by our lovely Sponsors, and even from some of the bloggers, too! These prizes are divided into 2 different categories —
- Grand Prizes (each blogger will select 3 entries to go into the Grand Prize drawings):
- Kaffe Fasset Precut Collection
- $100 digital Gift Certificate to Hancock’s of Paducah
- A BIG BOX of mystery quilty goodies
- An Electric Quilt 8 download — the winner for this prize will be selected on the EQ blog, so you will need to register there for this prize
- Individual Prizes (each blogger will select 3 winners on their blog) which may be books, patterns, fat quarter bundles, 5″ squares, 2 1/2″ strips, 10″ squares, or notions — it will be a fun surprise, I promise!