Villa Rosa Quilt Challenges 2024

Hello Quilty Friends!

Happy Thursday to you!

Merry Day After Christmas!

I also want to wish our friends a Happy Hanukkah and a Joyous Kwanza!

If you celebrate Christmas, do you have any special traditions for the day after? When I was a kid, we used to head to the mall for all the deep discounts. As I got older, the 26th became a day to sleep in and chill out, eat leftovers, spend some quality time with my gifts (my family, too — LOL!), listen to Christmas music, and maybe even watch Christmas movies. I think this year I’m going to wear my jammies all day, too.

While wracking my brain for a topic for the day after Christmas, I realized I could share photos of this year’s VRD Quilt Challenges I issued to my Friday quilt group. (Big Shout Out to my Friday pals!)

This year in my group, we tackled Lori Holt’s Vintage Farm Girl book.

As I’ve probably mentioned before, my group is totally wild about Villa Rosa Rose Card patterns. Huh? Imagine that. LOL! In addition to the Lori Holt sampler, they demanded that we still do some VRD patterns so I came up with the idea of sprinkling VRD quilt challenges throughout the year. We had a fat quarter quilt challenge, 5″ square quilt challenge, panel quilt challenge, and a 2 1/2″ strip quilt challenge. I must apologize, I was having so much fun in our December get together that I totally forgot to take photos of the 2 1/2″ challenge quilts. Bummer…….

The challenge rules were very simple — participation was optional and participants had to choose a Rose Card pattern that we hadn’t done in the last couple years when we were doing monthly VRD projects. Easy Peasy.

Please enjoy this feast of quilts. Maybe something will spark your creativity for the coming New Year. For your convenience, I am including the link to the pattern for each quilt. What really amazed me was that rarely did 2 people make the same quilt. These ladies really R O C K!

2024 Villa Rosa Quilt Challenges

Fat Quarter Quilts

Panel Quilts

5″ Square Quilts

Well, that’s it for me today.

Until next time — 

Sew. Laugh. Repeat.

Always,

Tricia @ VRD