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. (This is optional if you would rather not.) 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

https://villarosaquilts.com/

Friday, March 15

Kathleen McCormick -- https://kathleenmcmusing.com/

Cheree H -- http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/

Roseanne Nelson -- https://www.homesewnbyus.com

Wendy Tuma -- https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/

C&T (Valerie) -- https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16

Bernie Kringle -- https://needleandfoot.com/

Sandra Walker -- https://www.mmmquilts.com/

Linda -- https://www.texasquiltgal.com/

Debbie Huber – http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/

SIY (Branyn/Jennifer) – https://siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17

Carolyn -- https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/ You are here

Emily (Norton House) -- https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news

Gail Sheppard -- https://quiltinggail.com/

Susan Slaton -- http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 18

Nann Hilyard -- https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/

Jaftex (Jennifer) -- https://scottfortunoff.com/

Jan Altomare -- https://www.cocoaquilts.com/  

Tricia – http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 19

Joy -- https://www.cocoaquilts.com/

Emily Leachman -- http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/

Vicki S -- www.knitbug2.blogspot.com/

Rose Mikulski -- https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/

QOVF (Lexie) -- https://www.qovf.org/

Wednesday, March 20

Nancy -- https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/

Jocelyn -- https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/

Tracie -- https://joyfullytracie.com/

Daryl Perry -- https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/

Electric Quilt (Diane) -- https://doyoueq.com/blog/

Thursday, March 21

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