Fast and More Fun Blog Hop

/ quiltinggail

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. I am enjoying the blog hop, especially seeing all the finished quilts. Maybe it is time to finally use up some of these fat quarters that are languishing …

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    • Thanks, Sherry! I find IG is great when I want to look at a lot of quilts / quilting in a short period of time! Well, I admit, that sometimes it lasts a lot longer than “a short period of time!” LOL!!!

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  6. Those purples are so pretty, especially in the Gypsy pattern. Great choice! I followed on Instagram but my IG name is not the same as my name. It’s a books type instagram account.

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  12. Gypsy seems to be a favourite pattern! I enjoyed the colouring in your version. I like VRD patterns because they offer quick, adaptable patterns. My stack of cards is growing as is my ‘someday’ list. I’m a new instagram follower. Although I follow your blog, it was interesting to see your body of work in a different format.

    quiltcarver at yahoo dot com

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    • Thank you! Welcome to the world of IG. I post my own work, plus each month I post pictures of the other Island Batik Ambassadors. It’s a great place to go when you want to see all the challenge quilts in one place! 🙂

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  13. The colors you used are some of my favorites! The fabric patterns aren’t usually what I look at but the way you put it together really looks fantastic and I need to rethink my “go to” designs. Thank you!

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  15. Love your quilt and its beautiful fabrics! 

    It might be my computer, but I could not get to your IG account from your link in this post. I found you the old fashioned way and am now following you. 

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  16. Oh heart be still! You’re using my favorite line of fabrics again!!! I don’t do IG so I guess I can’t be a winner but it sure would be grand to receive some of those fabric scraps. Island Batiks seems to be hard to find in my area.

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  17. i really enjoy your blog. thanks for the reminder about the villa rosa blog hop. i think i already follow you on instagram but will double check. if i don’t already, i will start today. thank you for a chance to win a prize. i joined the bom at quilts by jen (pbj) because i read about it here. patti in florida

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  20. Love your quilt with the batiks my favorite colors! I liked the ruler quilting too. I’m just learning ruler quilting now so it was fun to see. Following your insta.

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    • Thank you, Kathy! What I showed was just one of Silly Moon’s rulers. She has many … and I’ve bought many. I use them in almost every quilt I make! And I make a LOT!

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  34. I’m so glad you didn’t put the fabric away, it is absolutely beautiful. I have made many VRD and they do go together really fast.

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  35. I love your blog! So many great ideas, you exhaust me just reading it all..I love that you are an ambassador for Island Batiks; it is one of my favorite lines. I have picked up a few of the Villa Rosa cards at my local shops and find them fantastic to use. Thank you!

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  42. Wow. Great prizes. I love Villa Rose patterns. They are such fun and I love your quilt. Great selection of colours for the pattern style. Thanks for the opportunity to win.

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  43. Love this little quilt. I may have to make a few of these for charity quilts. Thanks for sharing. Check out your IG link it isn’t working correctly.

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  45. Love your quilt, purple is my favorite color! The Villa Rosa patterns are fabulous! Looking forward to following you on Instagram. Thanks for sharing.

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  47. The Island Batik fabric Heavy Metal made an adorable quilt. It is a good use of leftover pieces. I like the quilting and have bookmarked the Silly Moon site to go back to and find out more about them.

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  48. Gail, the quilt looks so FABULOUS in batiks!!! Batiks are my favorite fabric anyhow, but I love this one! Now I might just need to make one in batiks myself, ;0)

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