Fast and More Fun Blog Hop

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I was intrigued when I heard about this blog hop. It’s organized by Villa Rosa. You have probably seen them, even if you don’t recognize the name!! They are the patterns that are printed on post-card sized cards. I have made several of their quilts or table runners, more or less, using the directions given.

Here’s a bit of history about Villa Rose Designs:

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.  

Tricia sent me a zip of 5 patterns for the blog hop. I doubt very much that you could purchase this set of 5 in Canada for $8.95. I’ve seen individual ones priced at anywhere between $2 – $5! HOWEVER … keep reading and you can have an opportunity to WIN these 5 patterns!

 I choose Gypsy Rose. 

This was in February, just after I had posted my Island Batik Log Cabin quilts. I was about to put the extra “Heavy Metal” fabric away but instead, I immediately started cutting for this quilt. Now, I didn’t have all 20 skus left, but I cut from what I did have! I just love the blues and purples in this fabric collection!

This was an easy and fast quilt top to put together! I completed the top in an afternoon while I was also piecing a couple of other projects!

I used Silly Moon‘s “Charming” ruler to do all the quilting! It’s simple, but effective!

Quilt Stats:

Prizes!! Prizes!! Prizes!!

There are LOTs of prizes from this. blog hop. (See the list of sponsors below).

Each blogger participating in the hop will select winners for:

  • 3 Sponsor prizes
  • One set of 5 Villa Rosa patterns (the patterns used in the blog hop)

This is a HUGE hint for you to visit each of the bloggers and follow their individual guidelines to increase YOUR chance to win!!!

If you are chosen by me, I will need your Name, Shipping Address and Email.

There is also 3 awesome grand prizes:

  • Kaffe Fassett Precuts Collection
  • $100 digital gift certificate for Hancock’s of Paducah
  • A Big Mystery Box of Quilting Goodies

So … in order for me to pick YOU to be selected by me, I need you to do 2 things:

1. Comment on my blog

AND 2. Follow me on Instagram @quiltinggail

Update: In order for me to pick YOU to be selected by me, You need to leave a comment on my blog. If you also choose to follow me on Instagram, you will be entered into my draw twice.

Sponsors (for the Prizes!)

Many companies have donated prizes for this blog hop!

The Bloggers in the Hop

Thursday, March 14
https://villarosaquilts.com/

Friday, March 15
1. Kathleen McCormick — https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
2. Cheree H — http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
3. Roseanne Nelson — https://www.homesewnbyus.com
4. Wendy Tuma — https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
5. C&T (Valerie) — https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16
1. Bernie Kringel — https://needleandfoot.com/
2. Sandra Walker — https://www.mmmquilts.com/
3. Linda — https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
4. Debbie Huber – http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
5. SIY (Branyn/Jennifer) – https://blog.siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17
1. Carolyn — https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
2. Emily (Norton House) — https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
3. Gail Sheppard — https://quiltinggail.com/ YOU ARE HERE!!
4. Susan Slaton — http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 18
1. Nann Hilyard — https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
2. Jaftex (Jennifer) — https://scottfortunoff.com/
3. Jan Altomare — https://www.cocoaquilts.com/ 

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

Tuesday, March 19
1. Joy – https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
2. Emily Leachman — http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
3. Vicki S — www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
4. Rose Mikulski — https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
5. QOVF (Lexie) — https://www.qovf.org/

Wednesday, March 20:

  1. Nancy — https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
  2. Jocelyn — https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com
  3. Tracie — https://joyfullytracie.com/
  4. Daryl — Patchouli Moon Studio
  5. Electric Quilt (Diane) — https://doyoueq.com/blog/

Thursday, March 21:

villarosaquilts.com

One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!

Happy Quilting!    
Gail 

187 thoughts on “Fast and More Fun Blog Hop”

  1. Pingback: Sunday Summary: March 24 | Quilting Gail

  3. 2nd try to leave a comment. I hope it sticks.

    I love your Gypsy Quilt. Brilliant. And now I truly want to make one just like yours.

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  7. Your quilt looks great! I like that the VRD patterns are quick but they still look interesting. And some of them are great for large scale prints which I sometimes hate to chop into pieces.

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  10. Those purples are so pretty, that pattern really shows them off well. It’s nice that you were able to use the left overs right away and not have to put them back into the stash. 

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  13. It is great to have a pattern like “Gypsy” that results in a quilt that is so simple and yet so pretty, drawing its strength in large part from the fabric line. Fun choice for charity quilts and easy to adapt to different size requirements.

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    • Thanks, Beth!! Yes, it could easily be adapted to different sizes … my mind is swirling with the possibilities … but I can’t go there yet, I have too many other deadlines!

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  16. I love your colors in Ebb Tide. My granddaughter’s favorite color is purple, so I tend to make several quilt for her in those colors.

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  24. Thank you for sharing your Gypsy quilt with us. It’s gorgeous. How much of that fabric line is now left after you finished Gypsy?

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    • Thank you!! I don’t have much left! I had a give-away after I made 2 log cabin quilts for an Island Batik Challenge, and then I used up a few of the skus for Gypsy Rose … What’s left is now filed in the scraps under their appropriate colours! 🙂

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  26. Gypsy Rose is my favorite pattern from this year’s VRD bundle. Your Gypsy is great – love the colors. Annmarie (iambuzzysma@yahoo.com)

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  30. Your Gypsy Rose is just wonderful in that palette of batiks, very different from and more restful than the brights I have seen on some of the other blogs in the hop.

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  33. I followed on Instagram ( Shardsandsawdust) and Oh the purple fabric is just perfect for the gypsy pattern! I especially like the pattern 31 I have such a stash of panels that any pattern that helps me to come up with ideas is awesome. Thank you for sharing! Blog hops are so fun!

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  35. Gail, yours is the prettiest Gyspy quilt I’ve seen! Personally, any quilt that is mostly purple wins my vote! Isn’t it great to stitch out a quilt top in just an afternoon? I think I need to make a few of the Gyspy quilts. They’d make great baby gifts to have on hand. I’m a blog follower of yours and a new one on IG! duchick at gmail dot com

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  38. I love the quilting on your Gypsy quilt. Those peels sure do look great on those pretty fabrics. I followed you on IG… although I don’t tend to go on there much! I did take a peek and love your crossed canoe quilt.

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