Sunday, March 17, 2024

Blog Hop Day!


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.


The baby quilts worked up so fast, I decided to piece a table runner with a pretty gray and yellow charm pack. 

I followed the pattern until I got to the border, and my border print had the large dots, so I cut it a little wider. That turned out to be a bad idea as my runner is now a little large for the tiny table in my shop.
It’s still pretty, just a little large. So my advice on this one is “stick with the pattern”!

Never one to leave well enough alone, I used my sunflower charm pack for the Twinkle pattern.


It’s not bound yet, but I did manage to get it pieced and quilted.
It’s a great pattern, and I love the way it turned out. I plan to bind it with the fabric I used for the cornerstones. 

And, now the most important part--prizes! Here's the info from Villa Rosa: 

There are many opportunities for you to win prizes during the blog hop:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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):
  1. Kaffe Fasset Precut Collection
  2. $100 digital Gift Certificate to Hancock’s of Paducah
  3. A BIG BOX of mystery quilty goodies
  4. 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!
I will be drawing an additional winner and sending them a prize selected by me. 

If you want to win one of these great prizes, you can register here.
1) Please follow my blog. The link is on the right hand side near the bottom.
2) Leave me a comment and let me know what is your favorite precut to sew and why. 
3) Make sure I have your email address somewhere in the comment so I can contact you if you're a winner! 

Prize registration closes on March 23rd, so you have plenty of time. Winners will be selected and notified as soon as possible after the 23rd. 

2024 VRD Blog Hop Schedule
Thursday, March 14

Friday, March 15
Kathleen McCormick -- https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
Roseanne Nelson -- https://www.homesewnbyus.com
C&T (Valerie) -- https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16
Bernie Kringle -- https://needleandfoot.com/
Sandra Walker -- https://www.mmmquilts.com/
SIY (Branyn/Jennifer) – https://siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17
Carolyn -- https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/ You are here
Gail Sheppard -- https://quiltinggail.com/

Monday, March 18
Jaftex (Jennifer) -- https://scottfortunoff.com/
Jan Altomare -- https://www.cocoaquilts.com/  






Saturday, March 16, 2024

Worldwide Quilting Day


What’s the purpose of Worldwide Quilting Day? Apparently, it started as National Quilting Day. Here’s what my local PBS station says:

Every third Saturday of March is a day to celebrate the rich tradition of quiltmaking. The Quilt Alliance and the National Quilt Museum recall the origins of this day: a "Quilter's Day Out" organized by the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society in 1989. The day for local quilters to show their makes and share the love of the craft was a success. Participating quilters elected to make it a national event thereafter. The first National Quilting Day was observed in 1992. So get your quilts out and display them with pride this Saturday! And remember, keep on quilting. 

The Fat Quarter Shop has 10 free patterns to help celebrate. Oh, I love that Sewcialites 2 one. It’s been on my list to make since I quilted one for a customer. 

For now, I will continue to work on my Process Flow quilt. Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for my post on the Villa Rosa Blog Hop. There are some really cool giveaways plus lots of eye candy! See you tomorrow. 



Friday, March 15, 2024

This and That

I was hoping to start a new quilt from this book.

Just one problem—I couldn’t find the book. I went to the LQS to buy another, but they no longer have any in stock. I saw the Betty quilt on someone’s blog and wanted to make one. Here’s the picture of Betty from the book:
I like it a lot. I kept looking and finally found the book….then I lost it again—twice. In the meantime, I decided on a charm pack, 
actually two of them, and some background fabric. Once I found the book the second time, I changed my mind and decided on this pattern.
I’ve gotten my squares cut and just need to sit down and sew. I’m still not operating at full energy yet. Who knows how long it’s going to take me to get back to normal. 

Remember this?

I took out the hunchbacked piece I had made and redid it. Now the front and back match.
This is both pieces stuffed and crocheted together. My ears are a little pointed, but I’m okay with that. The instructions said to do three singles in the point, but I will try and adjust that if I do another. I still need to do the rosette and leaf and get them attached. It turned out bigger than I expected.
It’s about 15”.

Today I need to see how much I can get done. I have cardio this morning, and then the rest of the day is open.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

To-Do-List Tuesday 3-12-24

I still haven't quite gotten my energy back, and my productivity (or lack of) is evidence of that. Here's my progress:

1) Quilt three customer quilts. Yes. This was the number one priority. 


2) March BOM from A Quilting Life. No. I printed out the instructions, but I never did have time to work on it.
3) Start purple RSC blocks. Yes, I got four done.

4) Clean up the tee-shirt mess in the sewing room, and cut up some of the scraps on the cutting table. I started three times, but I haven't finished it yet.

Time to move on to a new list and a new week.
1) Bind three customer quilts.
2) Quilt two customer quilts.
3) March BOM from A Quilting Life.
4) Get retreat plans finalized.

Not a long list, but I have my sewing group at church today, and meetings another two days this week. And, the kids are on spring break, so I have dog-feeding/pottying duties while everyone is out of town. 

I am linking this post to Quilt SchmiltI hope you all have a fun week and are as productive as you want to be!

Monday, March 11, 2024

Time Change and Another Squirrel

 

This is so true! Of course, I’m now mentally in the habit at looking at the time on the car clock and automatically subtracting an hour. Haha, it’s always something. I used to really look forward to daylight saving time because I wanted the extra hour of daylight in the evening. That was when I did more gardening and yard work. I’m over all of that now and just want my regular bedtime to stay the same. Last night at bedtime (10 pm for me), I wasn’t sleepy yet and ended up staying up another hour. I went down a rabbit hole with YouTube videos. I was actually looking for a crocheted shawl pattern, but I found this cute bunny. 


I didn’t have time to finish it, but I got one side made.

I think I messed up on the increases on the back side. I haven’t cut the thread yet; I will probably rip it out and redo it. Otherwise, the back and front most likely won’t match. 

I also found this cute pattern for bunny peeps.

I want to try it also. I am going to try and remember to stop and get some polyfil today. I thought I had a bag of it in the guest room closet, but I’m not finding it in there. I may have given it to one of the kids. 

Saturday, March 9, 2024

Cruising Into the Weekend


Yesterday was my granddaughters ring ceremony at school. She will be a senior next year. 

Daughter and granddaughter:

The problem with Catholic school is that everything is an excuse to have mass, so I was there longer than I expected. I did manage to get a Christmas panel quilted in the afternoon.

I also got another one loaded a ready to go, but I'm not sure when I will be able to work on it. My mom's bday was a couple of days ago, and I got us tickets to do a historic trolley tour of downtown Victoria.


That is today, and it includes lunch so I don't expect to be finished very early. 

Friday, March 8, 2024

A Little Progress

Not too much going on here this week. I have been busy with doctors appointments this week, both my gp and the cardiologist. Wednesday evening I cooked at church; we only had around 40 people show up to eat, but we had cooked enough for 50 so there was plenty of food. I forgot to take a picture, but it was pulled pork tacos. 

I spent a lot of time one day studying this quilt pattern.

I am interested in using the sashing design for some of the 12” sampler blocks I have accumulated over the years. I know I have quite a few stashed away somewhere. I think this particular sashing would add a lot of cohesiveness to the blocks.  
It's a really pretty quilt....the size is 67" x 84", but of course, the wide borders account for a lot of the size. 

I had done a similar setting in the past with 12" sampler blocks, but I used pinwheels in the sashing.

Can you believe I did this about 10 years ago, and it's still not quilted? It's sitting on the shelf in the "to be quilted" stack, but something else has always taken priority. Maybe this is my wake up call to get it done!