2024 VRd Blog Hop · Quilting Partners · villa rosa designs

And the Winners of the Fast & More Fun VRD Blog Hop Are…

Happy Thursday to you!

I just can’t believe that it’s past the middle of April! How did that happen? Time is just flying by! It’s like no sooner do I get up and have breakfast and then I’m preparing for bed. I wish the days would slow down a little bit. I can remember when I was a kid, those lazy summer days seemed to last forever….

I must admit that I am still playing catch up for the prize winners for the Blog Hop in March. All of the winners have now been contacted and I have everyone’s information. Now it’s time to get those prizes out in the mail! Some of you winners will be receiving prizes directly from some of our lovely Sponsors, so be on the lookout soon. Thanks for your patience as I get everything wrapped up.

Ironically, I feel like the faster I try to do things, the slower I’m actually going. I think I’m taking after my niece, Morgan’s African tortoise, Carl. Slow and steady, but never quite fast enough. On second thought, I think Carl might actually be faster than I am, especially when it’s his meal time….LOL!

I couldn’t leave you hanging here without seeing my cute little tortoise grand nephew (who is really not all that little). Here’s Carl celebrating his 9th birthday recently. My goodness, he’s gotten so big! When Morgan adopted him, he was so tiny — about the size of a Matchbox car — and fit in her pocket!

No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you — Carl really is wearing a t-shirt as well as a diaper. He is a free range house tortoise (have you ever tried to potty train a tortoise???). Carl is also Mr. Personality. He doesn’t say much, but he has a way of getting his point across. See how happy he is, playing with his balloon?

Sorry, I digress. I’m supposed to be talking about the Blog Hop Winners today.

Break out the champagne! Throw the confetti! Let’s hear it for our Blog Hop Winners! WAHOO! HUZZAH! CONGRATULATIONS!

We had winners from 31 US States, 4 Canadian Provinces, and 2 European Countries. There were also some super lucky folks who won prizes on different blogs. I just hope I didn’t accidentally leave anyone off this list….

YEAH! Let’s give a great big CHEER for our winners!

Grand Prize Winner — $100 Hancock’s Gift Certificate

Nancy M.

Grand Prize Winner — Kaffe Collection Winner

Andrea A.

Grand Prize Winner — Big Box of Mystery Quilt Goodies

Rita S.

VRD Quilt Winners

Anne-Marie, IN 

Kathryn, FL    

Kate, TX     

Susan, MN      

Jill, NE     

Robin, PA     

Pattern Set Winners

Nancy, MO

Nadja, AK

Deb, OH

Renea, IA

Anne, TN

Pam, MI

Debbie, IN

Darlene, UT

Elaine, TX

Sara, SD

Krista, TX

Carmen, TX

Bonnie, Saskatchewan, Canada

Patience, MI

Nikki, VA

Margaret, TX

Donna, Saskatchewan, Canada

Samantha, MS

Diane, NM

Mary, WI

Eva, Germany (sorry Eva!)

Pat, MI

Rita, NC

Cindy, TX

Jannette, Ontario, Canada

Lori, Newfoundland, Canada

Sponsor Winners

C.J., Netherlands

Donna, Saskatchewan, Canada

Mary Anne, Ontario, Canada

Carol, ID

Lisa, KY

Pat, NY

Renea, IA

Diane, NM

Lizzy, NM  

Terri, CO

Nancy, CA  

Rachel, IA

Jill, NE 

Ann, WI

Sharon, VA   

Mayme, MI

Samantha, MS  

Julie, AR

Debbie, IN  

Lisa, KY

Cindy, TX

Mary, WI  

Barb, NE

Pat, MI

Kim, British Columbia, Canada

Terry, MA

Anita, GA

Joanne, British Columbia, Canada

Connie, VA

Joy, OR

Nancy, OH

Lee, MI 

Carol, WI  

Diann, CO

Deb, FL

Sherry, TN

Johnna, OH

Anne, TN

Bonnie, Saskatchewan, Canada

Karen, PA

Margaret, TX

Carol, NC

Donna, PA

Beth, AL

Sandra, FL

Donna, FL

Jeanie, TX

Kathleen, IA

Kim, GA

Anne-Marie, IN

Sharon, MS

Pam, HI

Krista, TX

Patricia, MN

Pam, WI  

Cindy, LA

Julie, MN

Kathy, NC

Amy, WI

Deb, NY

Jennifer, NY

Julie, GA

Christi, NC

Diana, PA

Brenda, VA

Darlene, UT

Leslie, OR

Anna, MI

Of course, our Blog Hop wouldn’t have been a success without our AWESOME Bloggers and our VERY GENEROUS Sponsors. Thank you! Thank you!

https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
https://www.homesewnbyus.com
https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

https://needleandfoot.com/
https://www.mmmquilts.com/
https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
https://blog.siysewityourself.com/

https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
https://quiltinggail.com/

http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

 https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
https://scottfortunoff.com/
https://www.cocoaquilts.com/ 

http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
https://www.qovf.org/

https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
https://joyfullytracie.com/
https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
https://doyoueq.com/blog/

https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net

https://modafabrics.com

https://www.ttfabrics.com

http://jaftex.com

https://electricquilt.com

https://www.northcott.com/home.aspx

http://benartex.com

https://www.hancocks-paducah.com

https://foxchapelpublishing.com

https://www.ctpub.com

https://www.pbtex.com

And finally, our Blog Hop was a success because of YOU, our VRD enthusiasts and followers. Thank you for supporting Villa Rosa Designs and our Fast & More Fun Blog Hop! I hope this Blog Hop introduced you to many more wonderful quilt blogger friends.

Well, that’s it for me today! I have to get back to weighing and labeling packages……

Have a great week!

Until next Thursday —

Always,

Tricia @VRD

2024 VRd Blog Hop · Just Quilty Stuff · Rose Cards · villa rosa designs

The Language of Quilting and a VRD Blog Hop Update

Happy Thursday to you!

Did you know quilting has its very own language? I am going way beyond quarter inch seams here.

Recently, I’ve been gathering up a long list of Quilting Acronyms and thought I’d share them with you. Some of them are so silly, they will make you laugh.

Before we dive into this crazy list, here’s an update on our Blog Hop last week.

First, I want to thank you for hopping along with us. I hope you all had a great time last week for our second Villa Rosa Designs Blog Hop, Fast & More Fun! If you’re new to VRD, I bet you now know why we called the Hop Fast & More Fun.

What was your favorite part of the Hop? Mine was seeing all of the quilts. I couldn’t wait to see each day’s blogs and the quilts — oh my goodness! — the quilts were simply out of this world!

I am sending a great big quilty hug to each of our 28 amazing bloggers —

https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
https://www.homesewnbyus.com
https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

https://needleandfoot.com/
https://www.mmmquilts.com/
https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
https://blog.siysewityourself.com/

https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
https://quiltinggail.com/

http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

 https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
https://scottfortunoff.com/
https://www.cocoaquilts.com/ 

http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
https://www.qovf.org/

https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
https://joyfullytracie.com/
https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
https://doyoueq.com/blog/

I hope you hoppers met some new quilty friends and found some new-to-you quilt blogs filled with inspiration. I know I did. Now how will I have time to write this blog when I’m sew busy reading all the others??? LOL!

I am sew in love with all of the quilts featured on the blogs for the Hop — it amazes me how quilters can take the same Villa Rosa Designs Rose Card pattern, add their own spin, and create a OOAK (wanna know what OOK means, keep reading!) really awesome quilt. Cheree at The Morning Latte comes to mind with her delightful scrappy pieced border on her version of the Gypsy pattern. I could literally go on and on about what I learned and saw on the Hop, but instead, let me ask you what you took away from the Hop?

Right now I am working my way through each blog’s winners — please be patient — that’s a lot of folks to contact and get shipping info from.

Let’s do the math (you might remember that I like math — check out my Quilting and Math post from a while back HERE):

28 blogs x 3 sponsor prizes each + 6 VRD quilts = 90 Individual prizes

30 blog posts x 1 set of patterns each = 30 Pattern Set prizes

30 blog posts x 3 Grand Prize entrants each = 90 Grand Prize entrants

So, 120 prizes are being given out and there are 90 entrants into 3 Grand Prize drawings.

Holy Cow! Go big or go home — that’s my motto!

Speaking of prizes, this blog hop would never have happened without the generosity of our lovely sponsors —

https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net

https://modafabrics.com

https://www.ttfabrics.com

http://jaftex.com

https://electricquilt.com

https://www.northcott.com/home.aspx

http://benartex.com

https://www.hancocks-paducah.com

https://foxchapelpublishing.com

https://www.ctpub.com

https://www.pbtex.com

And don’t forget, you can order the Blog Hop Rose Card pattern set HERE if you haven’t gotten your own set yet. Of course, I am still working in notifying winners so maybe you’ll win a set.

While you are all waiting breathlessly to see if you are a Blog Hop winner — let’s dive right into a world of its own — Quilting Lingo!

Below you’ll find a long list of Quilting Acronyms. How many do you know already?

Who knew there was literally a dictionary of Quilting Acronyms? I guess it makes sense, though, because of text messaging abbreviations and acronyms like LOL, TTYL, and others. So why not Quilting acronyms too?

Read on. I dare you not to laugh — some of them are downright silly and will tickle your funny bone.

BC — Bias Cut

BDNQ — Bad Day, No Quilting

BOB — Beginners Only Block

BOM — Block of the Month

BOW — Block of The Week

BSK — Basic Sewing Kit

BSS — Basics Sewing Supplies

COC — Cream on Cream

DF — Double Fold

DSM — Domestic Sewing Machine

EPP — English Paper Piecing

FART — Fabric Acquisition Road Trip (One of my fav things to do! Tehehe….)

FE — Fat Eighth

FFO — Finally Finished Object

F-ing G’s — Flying Geese ( this one is for Gaynel and the rest of the Friday Quilt Crew!)

FMQ — Free Motion Quilting

FOB — Fear of Binding

FPP — Foundation Paper Piecing

FQ — Fat Quarter

FS — Forgotten Stash

FW — Featherweight (sewing machine)

GTG — Get ToGether

HSY — Haven’t Started Yet

HIPS — Hundreds of Ideas Piling Skyward. (Very true!)

HST — Half Square Triangle

HSY — Haven’t Started Yet

HQ — Hand Quilted/ing

LA — Long Armer. (Donna O!)

LAQ — Long Arm Quilter/Quilting

LOF — Length Of Fabric

LQS — Local Quilt Shop. (What would we do without our LQSs?)

MAQ — Mid Arm Machine

MGBTQ — Must Get Back to Quilting. (Yeah……every day)

NESTY — Not Even Started Yet

NQR — Not Quilt Related

NTBB — Needs To Be Bound

OOAK — One Of A Kind

OBW — One Block Wonder

OOP — Out of Print

PFC — Professional Fabric Collector

PhD — Projects Half Done

PIGS — Projects in Grocery Sacks

PIP — Project In Process

PIPS — Projects In Pretty Sacks

PIZB — Project In Ziplock Bag

PNTBF — Project Needs To Be Finished

PP — Paper Piecing

PFD — Prepared for Dyeing

PPO — Project Put Off

QAL — Quilt Along

QAYG — Quilt As You Go

QB — Quilting Board (flannel or felt board, I think….)

QMWL — Quilt More, Work Less

QR — Quilt Related

QST — Quarter Square Triangle

QTFDD — Quilt Top Finishing Deficit Disorder

RR — Round Robin

RST — Right Sides Together

SA — Seam Allowance

SABLE — Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy. Yup, that’s me!)

SF — Single Fold

SAQM — Small Arm Quilting Machine

SAS — Steam A Seam

SEX — Stash Enhancing Experience

SID — Stitch in the Ditch

SnW — Stack and Whack

SQUID — Sewing a Quilt Until I Die

SQUIDS — Some Quilts in DrawerS

SOG — Straight of Grain

STASH — Special Treasures All Hidden Secretly

TBQ — To Be Quilted

TGIF — Thank Goodness It’s Finished!

TIH — There is Hope

TOAD — Trashed Object Abandoned in Disgust. (We all have them!)

TOT — Tone on Tone

UFO — Unfinished Object

USO — UnStarted Project

VIP — Very Important Project

WHIMM — Works Hidden In My Mind

WIP — Work in Progress

WISP — Work In Slow Progress

WITHWIT — What In The Heck Was I Thinking?

WIWMI — Wish It Would Make Itself

WOA — Work Of Art

WOF — Width of Fabric

WOMBAT — Waste of Money and Time

WOW — White on White

WST — Wrong Sides Together

WTF — Where’s the Fabric?

WWIT — What Was I Thinking?

YD — Yard/Yardage

Whew! That’s a lot of Acronyms — it’s almost a dictionary. As many as there are on my list, I know that I missed some. Please feel free to comment with any that I missed. Maybe someone needs to write a Quilting Dictionary? Hmmmmmmmm. I’ll add it to the list. At the rate I’m going, I might get to start it as a project in the year 3078.

Well, that’s it for me, I need to get back to organizing and contacting all the Blog Hop winners so we can get all these quilty goodies sent out to their forever homes. Maybe even yours……

See you next Thursday, right here at Villa Rosa Quilts!

Until then —

Always,

Tricia @VRD

2024 VRd Blog Hop · Quilting Partners · Rose Cards · villa rosa designs

Villa Rosa Designs Fast & More Fun (Quilt) Blog Hop Comes to an End Plus Extra Blog Fun Just For You!

Happy Thursday to you!

I can’t believe that a week has passed since we began our second VRD Blog Hop. It’s been Sew Much Fun! And FAST, too!

Our participating bloggers have shared their VRD quilts, tips and tricks, and inspiration by the boatload — just what we all needed to help us jump-start a new fun project! You can visit Villa Rosa Designs HERE to see our catalog of over 600 Rose Card patterns for even more inspiration as well as kits and fabric galore.

Here’s the special VRD Rose Card collection curated for our Fast & More Fun Blog Hop:

Get your own Pattern Set HERE or you can comment on all the participating blogger sites to register to win your own set.

Interested in seeing the patterns we selected for our very first Blog Hop in 2023? You can see them HERE.

While we are still Hopping, let me show you one of my next blog tutorial projects. I am planning to make 31 with this brand new collection by Satin Moon Designs for Blank Quilting. The collection is called Holiday Style and it is coming to a quilt shop near you in May 2024, so start planning your projects now.

You’ll have to stop back to check out my 31 tutorial sometime after the Blog Hop is all wrapped up and all the prizes are shipped.

Hey! Did you know we do tutorials on this blog??? You can see which VRD patterns we’ve done so far by finding the Tutorials link under the Blog Topics category over on the right side of the blog. Want to see a tutorial for a specific VRD Rose Card pattern that we haven’t done yet? Just ask and we’ll see what we can do.

GROUP HUG! An enormous hug goes out to all of our 28 amazing bloggers for participating in the 2024 Blog Hop and showing us their own spin for the VRD Rose Card patterns above. Thank you, Bloggers, for taking the time to be part of the second VRD Blog Hop!

PSST! A quick reminder from the bloggers — if you posted a comment as “anonymous” and/or did not include an email address, then PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE revisit the blogs where you posted and leave another comment with a contact email address. Sadly, with no email address, there is no way to contact you if you win. Comments will close midnight on Sunday, March 24th.

Here is our Blog Hop Schedule again in case you missed any participating blogs or need to add last-minute comments:

Thursday, March 14
Villa Rosa Quilts — https://villarosaquilts.com/

Friday, March 15
Kathleen McMusings — https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
The Morning Latte — http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
Homesewn By Us — https://www.homesewnbyus.com
Pieceful Thoughts — https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
C & T Publishing — https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16National Quilting Day!
Needle and Foot — https://needleandfoot.com/
MMM Quilts — https://www.mmmquilts.com/
Texas Quilt Gal — https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
Time 4 Stitchn — http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
SIY (Sew It Yourself) — https://blog.siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Quarter Inch Capers — https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
Norton House Quilting — https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
Quilting Gail — https://quiltinggail.com/

Wazoo! Newsbits — http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 18
With Strings Attached — https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
Jaftex/Scott Fortunoff — https://scottfortunoff.com/
Cocoa Quilts — https://www.cocoaquilts.com/ 

Quilt With a View — http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 19
Shout 4 Joy — https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
The Darling Dogwood — http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting — www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
Something Rosemade — https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
Quilts of Valor Foundation — https://www.qovf.org/

Wednesday, March 20 — First Day of Spring!

Grace and Peace Quilting — https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
Happy Cottage Quilter — https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
Joyfully Tracie — https://joyfullytracie.com/
Patchouli Moon Studio — https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
Electric Quilt Company — https://doyoueq.com/blog/

Thursday, March 21
Villa Rosa Quilts — villarosaquilts.com (You are here)

NEWSFLASH! — There’s ONE MORE blogger surprise just for you! Our lovely sponsor, Hancock’s of Paducah, just created a blog to share their delight and excitement about Villa Rosa Designs Rose Card Patterns. You can stop over to cheer them on HERE. They aren’t able to accept comments at this time, but they know that you’ve been registering on all the other blogs for prizes. Enjoy one last stop….

And of course, need I mention all the prizes up for grabs??? See below for MORE PRIZES!

We couldn’t have done this Blog Hop without the support and generosity of our sponsors. Please join me in offering a round of applause for each of these lovely sponsors —

https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net

https://modafabrics.com

https://www.ttfabrics.com

http://jaftex.com

https://electricquilt.com

https://www.northcott.com/home.aspx

http://benartex.com

https://www.hancocks-paducah.com

https://foxchapelpublishing.com

https://www.ctpub.com

https://www.pbtex.com

I’m bummed that our Fast & More Fun Blog Hop is wrapping up today. Sadly, all good things must come to an end sometime. And this Blog Hop really was a SUPER GOOD THING!

I really enjoyed reading each participating blogger’s post each day, didn’t you? I must confess that I read them over breakfast because I honestly couldn’t wait to see which quilt each blogger created! And I absolutely loved reading the comments on our VRD post as well as the comments on the other blogs. What fun!

THANK YOU to everyone who took the time to hop from blog to blog with us this past week. I hope you really enjoyed the Fast & More Fun Blog Hop with more quilts, more inspiration, and of course more prizes. And I hope that you discovered new quilty friend bloggers to visit on the ‘Net.

If you haven’t finished reading all 28 blog posts for the Hop and/or leaving comments on each to register for prizes, you have through Sunday, March 24th, to do so. Use the links above to visit each participating blogger to catch up on your reading and your prize entries.

Winners will be drawn next week and notified. Please be patient with us as we navigate the shipping process. And we will post all the winners just as soon as the winners are selected and prizes are shipped.

One Last VRD Fast & Fun Blog Hop Giveaway

Let’s review all the prizes that are up for grabs for our Blog Hop:

Everyone, Everywhere is eligible to win prizes and there are several opportunities for you to win prizes:

  1. Individual bloggers may be hosting giveaways on their blogs for you to win. Please visit these bloggers 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 card set winners will receive a digital collection of the patterns).
  3. Sponsor prizes have been donated by our lovely Sponsors, above, and even from some of the bloggers, too! These prizes are divided into 2 different categories —
    • 5 Grand Prizes — Yup, I added another one to the Grand Prize list!
      • Kaffe Fasset Precut Collection
      • Big Box filled with mystery quilty goodies
      • $100 digital gift certificate to Hancock’s of Paducah
      • Electric Quilt 8 Download (winner to be selected on the EQ blog HERE)
      • An Eversewn Sparrow 25 Sewing Machine from Jaftex (winner will be selected on Scott’s blog HERE) — this was a happy surprise addition to the Hop Prizes, so make sure you get registered
    • Individual Prizes (each blogger will select 3 winners on their blog) which may be precuts, books, notions, or other cool quilty goodies.

WOWZER! That’s a lot of chances to win prizes so I hope you comment on ALL the blogs to increase your chance of being a winner. No purchase is necessary to participate in the Blog Hop or to win prizes, but please make sure you leave your email address on your comment or else we can’t contact you if you are a winner

Now, how about ONE LAST GIVEAWAY???

3 MORE QUILTS!!!

Left: Jubilee 45″ x 60″

Middle: Kalinda 45″ x 54″

Right: Star Spangled 48″ x 60″

In addition to the 3 quilts above, we will be giving away a set of the Fast & More Fun Rose Card Patterns and 3 commenters will be added to the Grand Prize drawings.

You have up to 3 chances to win the quilts listed above on this blog post. Please leave a single comment for EACH of these categories (if you comment that you loved the hop, you are a blog follower, and hang out at VRD on Facebook all in one comment, it will only count as one chance to win).

1.  Leave a comment on this post and tell us your thoughts about the VRD Fast & More Fun Blog Hop.

2.  Become a blog follower/subscriber and leave a comment on this post telling us that you are a blog follower/subscriber ( if you already follow — thank you — just leave a comment letting us know).

3. Join our VRD Facebook group and leave a comment on this post telling us you joined our FB group (if you are already a member — thank you — just leave a comment letting us know).

Ready!  Set!  GO!

Please note that to be registered to win any prizes on this blog, you first must leave a comment. To leave a comment, you will need to click on the comments link just under the blog title at the top of the blog OR you can find a comments link along the side of the blog post towards the bottom right. After you click the “comments” link, you need to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the comments in order to find the space to leave your own comment. Be patient — there may be a lot of comments to go through until you get to the bottom. Thank you.

Don’t forget — registration for prizes closes Sunday, March 24th.

 Winners will be selected randomly next week and will be announced once all winners have been contacted.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR COMMENT SO WE CAN CONTACT YOU IF YOU ARE A WINNER!

Well, Quilty Friends, I thank you for hopping along with us this past week. I sincerely hope you had as much fun as we did! And I invite you to come back and visit the Villa Rosa Designs blog, Villa Rosa Quilts. We have SEW much fun here!

Until next Thursday —

Always,

Tricia

2024 VRd Blog Hop · Rose Cards · villa rosa designs

It’s Finally Here — Kickoff Day for the 2024 Villa Rosa Designs Fast & More Fun Blog Hop!!!

Happy Thursday to you!

Let me rephrase that — Happy Blog Hop Kickoff Day to you!

Hi there! I’m Tricia, your Villa Rosa host for the Blog Hop. All of us at Villa Rosa Designs are tickled pink (and all the colors of the rainbow) that you are here to come along on a fun quilting adventure — our second Blog Hop here at Villa Rosa Designs. We’re calling it the Fast & MORE Fun Blog Hop.

You all know the saying — “Go big or go home?” We’re going B – I – G this year just for you! More Bloggers! More Fun! More Quilts! More Inspiration! More Prizes!

We have a super talented group of bloggers ready to share some awesome quilts made with Villa Rosa Designs (VRD) Rose Card patterns.

In fact, we’ve put together a special collection of 5 patterns just for this Blog Hop!

Here are the 5 patterns in the 2024 Fast & Fun Blog Hop Collection:

Lucky you! You can purchase a set of these 5 patterns HERE. Or visit our website HERE for even more great Rose Card patterns (over 600 of them).

Or you might just win a set. READ ON to find out how!

Let me tell you a little bit about Villa Rosa Designs in case this is the first time you’re visiting our blog home, Villa Rosa Quilts.

Villa Rosa Designs is the brainchild of owner and Rose Queen, Pat Fryer. Pat wanted to create Fast & Fun, affordable, and high quality patterns for quilters featuring precuts like 1/2 yards, fat quarters, 10″ squares, 5″ squares, 2 1/2″ strips, fat eighths, and fat sixths as well as other fabrics like panels and novelties.

Since its launch in 2010, VRD has become much more than a handful of easy-to-make quilt patterns. Rose Cards, Villa Rosa’s signature postcard-sized patterns, combine great design with simple packaging and an attractive price, making Rose Cards one of the best selling pattern brands on the market today! And since 2010, Villa Rosa Designs has grown to include a collection of very talented designers, each with their own unique style. 

Now that you know a little bit about Villa Rosa Designs, let me tell you about the VRD Fast & More Fun Blog Hop!

Good question and an easy one to explain. Most of you probably already know what a shop hop is (and may have participated in one before), where you travel to each shop participating in the event. There’s usually giveaways and a special pattern to collect at each shop.

A blog hop is very similar to a shop hop — instead of going from shop to shop, though, you go from blog to blog. You will usually find some kind of theme to a blog hop with opportunities to win prizes. And you can even hop from blog to blog in your jammies from the comfort of your own home. Yippee! Count me in!

We’ve teamed up with the most awesome group of bloggers! They have accepted the Blog Hop challenge to create at least 1 of the 5 Blog Hop Rose Card patterns above. To see which blogger has created which pattern, you’ll have to visit EACH blogger during the hop which runs from today, March 14th through next Thursday, March 21st.

Here is our Blog Hop Schedule:

Thursday, March 14
Villa Rosa Quilts — https://villarosaquilts.com/ (You are here)

Friday, March 15
Kathleen McMusings — https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
The Morning Latte — http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
Homesewn By Us — https://www.homesewnbyus.com
Pieceful Thoughts — https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
C & T Publishing — https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16National Quilting Day!
Needle and Foot — https://needleandfoot.com/
MMM Quilts — https://www.mmmquilts.com/
Texas Quilt Gal — https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
Time 4 Stitchn — http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
SIY (Sew It Yourself) — https://blog.siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Quarter Inch Capers — https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
Norton House Quilting — https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
Quilting Gail — https://quiltinggail.com/

Wazoo! Newsbits — http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 18
With Strings Attached — https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
Jaftex/Scott Fortunoff — https://scottfortunoff.com/
Cocoa Quilts — https://www.cocoaquilts.com/ 

Quilt With a View — http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 19
Shout 4 Joy — https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
The Darling Dogwood — http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting — www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
Something Rosemade — https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
Quilts of Valor Foundation — https://www.qovf.org/

Wednesday, March 20 — First Day of Spring!

Grace and Peace Quilting — https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
Happy Cottage Quilter — https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
Joyfully Tracie — https://joyfullytracie.com/
Patchouli Moon Studio — https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/
Electric Quilt Company — https://doyoueq.com/blog/

Thursday, March 21
Villa Rosa Quilts — villarosaquilts.com (You are here)

You will have the opportunity to win lots of great prizes during the blog hop! All you have to do is hop from blog to blog every day from March 14th through March 21st following the Blog Hop Schedule, above, to see which quilt each blogger made and to find out how to register for prizes on each blog.

Registration for prizes will close on Sunday, March 24th.

Before I jump into all the cool prizes you might win, I want to take a moment to thank all of our incredible sponsors, who donated all kinds of quilting goodies for you to win. Thank you Sponsors! Without you, this Blog Hop wouldn’t be possible.

https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net

https://modafabrics.com

https://www.ttfabrics.com

http://jaftex.com

https://electricquilt.com

https://www.northcott.com/home.aspx

http://benartex.com

https://www.hancocks-paducah.com

https://foxchapelpublishing.com

https://www.ctpub.com

https://www.pbtex.com

Here’s the Important Stuff you need to know:

It is free to participate in the Hop and there is no purchase necessary. Everyone Everywhere is invited to Hop along with us this week and register to win prizes.

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, above, 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!

WOW! That’s A LOT of prizes if you do the math!

Here are some photos of prizes to get you motivated! LOL!

Left: A Box filled with Individual Sponsor Prizes Center: The Kaffe Fasset Precut Collection Grand Prize Right: The Mystery Box of Goodies Grand Prize (most likely we’ll be adding more items before the Hop is over)

Sooooo, how do you win?

Hop from blog to blog using the schedule and links above from today, Thursday March 14th through Thursday March 21st and register for prizes at each blog you visit. The more participating blogs you visit and register at, the more chances you have to win prizes! It’s really that easy, I promise.

Winners will be selected randomly. Each blogger will select 3 names to go into the Grand Prize drawings and then 3 winners will be selected randomly to win from the bloggers’ entries. Each blogger will also randomly select 3 winners for the Sponsored Individual Prizes and 1 winner for a set of the Blog Hop patterns.

Prize registration closes Sunday, March 23 2024.

Winners will be announced just as soon as all winners have been notified. Prizes will be shipped as soon as possible. Please be patient if you are a prize winner, this process can take a little time.

Thank you for reading all the way through this post! As a reward, you can register to win QUILTS!

These 3 quilts are made from Villa Rosa patterns and are completely finished — machine quilted and bound — and ready for you to enjoy. Awesome Applesauce!!!

You have up to 3 chances to win the quilts listed above on this blog. Please do a separate comment for each of the following 3 opportunities — if you answer all of them in one comment, then it only counts as one comment. So sorry if this was not clear.

1.  Leave a comment on this post and tell us what your favorite Rose Card pattern is (or one you would like to make if you’re new to VRD).

2.  Become a blog follower/subscriber and leave a comment on this post telling us that you are a blog follower/subscriber (if you already subscribe — thank you — just leave a comment and let us know).

3. Join our VRD Facebook group and leave a comment on this post telling us you joined our FB group (if you are already a member of our FB group — thank you — just leave a comment and let us know).

In addition to the 3 quilts above, we will be giving away a set of the Fast & More Fun Rose Card Patterns and 3 commenters will be added to the Grand Prize drawings.

Please note that to be registered to win any prizes on this blog, you first must leave a comment. To leave a comment, you will need to click on the comments link just under the blog title at the top of the blog OR you can find a comments link along the side of the blog post towards the bottom right. After you click the “comments” link, you need to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the comments in order to find the space to leave your own comment. Be patient — there may be a lot of comments to go through until you get to the bottom. Thank you.

Ready!  Set!  GO!

Don’t forget — registration for prizes closes Sunday, March 23rd.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS SO WE CAN CONTACT YOU IF YOU ARE A WINNER!

Well, Quilty Friends, I thank you for reading the whole way to the end.

Good luck to each of you and please enjoy the Blog Hop! Don’t forget to stop back each day of the Hop to follow the links to bloggers for that day.

See you next Thursday, right here at Villa Rosa Quilts!

Until then —

Always,

Tricia @VRD