Hello Autumn! Here it is — the season I’ve been waiting for all year. I don’t really know what it is about autumn, though, that inspires me so much. The colors? The sounds? The smells? Warm days and cool nights? Sweaters and fuzzy socks? Hot tea and a little snack in the afternoon? Huh! I think it’s all of the above!
Image bymoi
Many of you already know that Villa Rosa Designs partners with other companies in the quilt industry. You can see our quilting partners on the far right side of the blog (just click on the company to be directed to their website). Perhaps you’re wondering how that all came about? Well, the easiest and quickest answer to that question is that our wonderful fast and fun VRD Rose Card patterns pair beautifully with pretty much any fabric collection and we have patterns for just about any fabric cut or style. Rose Card patterns also provide a terrific way to feature and showcase new fabric collections because VRD patterns really are all about the fabrics, not fussy cutting or piecing. Yay, Rose Card patterns — you rock ! Want to check out our entire catalog of 650+ Rose Card patterns? Print Patterns HERE or Digital Patterns HERE
One of the really FUN things I get to do is work closely with fabric companies to match our patterns to their collections. If you’ve visited any fabric company websites recently to check out their newest fabric collections, you might have seen some of our Rose Card patterns hanging out there. How cool is that???
Hoffman California International Fabrics is one of the companies that we partner with. It’s really fun playing with digital fabrics in their new collections paired with our VRD Rose Card patterns. You know how a lot of quilters make quilts in their heads while others make quilts with fabric? I get to make quilts on a computer screen with digital files! Neat-o!
Did you know that Hoffman has been in business since 1924? Wowzer! That’s 100 YEARS!!! Imagine all the amazing fabrics they have produced in 100 years! It’s positively mind-boggling!
Let’s all sing Happy Birthday to Hoffman. On the count of 3 — 1…….2…..3! Sing! Happy Birthday to you…………..
SPeaking of Hoffman, I LOVE using yummy Hoffman batiks and stunning digitally-printed fabrics for blog tutorials. One of my all-time favorite tutorials is Hillside Charm featuring the Wading with Water Lilies collection from a couple years ago. Do you have a favorite tutorial? If so, which one?
You can find the Hillside Charm print and digital patterns HERE. There are some pretty cool kits available too!
If you missed the Hillside Charm tutorial, you can find it HERE.
PSST! We still have a few Wading with Waterlilies fabrics at the VRD shop, including a couple panels! You can find them HERE.
I certainly hope everyone is in the mood for a little Fall inspiration today because I’m going to share some with you whether you’re ready or not! LOL! I’m really excited to share Hoffman’s Fall 2024 Project Catalog with you. It is literally HOT OF THE PRESS! I just saw it the other day and I totally knew I had to share it with you. Yep, it’s that good!
Take your time and enjoy flipping through the catalog. I guarantee you will find A LOT of inspiration here. Pay special attention to our VRD patterns in the catalog because you might just see some of them in the future as blog tutorials. Just sayin’………
I hope you enjoyed the catalog. Stay tuned for lots of exciting things coming soon, including new blog tutorials. Who doesn’t love tutorials???
I hope your summer is still going strong and you are getting to do the things on your summer bucket list.
This has been my busiest summer since before the Pandemic, that’s for sure. I’ve been doing things I haven’t done for years — gardening, the adult summer reading program at my local library (I even won a nice prize at the program potluck last week!), I’ve been to Presque Isle Park (Lake Erie) twice so far, made multiple trips to the big farmer’s market in Erie (PA), and even visited a relatively new local museum I’ve never been to before. Luckily, I’ve been making quilt tops for our Summer Tutorial series so I’ve even gotten in some fun sewing. Yay!
The only issue with my busy crazy summer is that I’ve been neglecting a lot of things at home and in my studio space. So I guess I’ll have a lot to catch up on this fall. Sigh………..
Road Trip
Artwork by moi
This Sunday, I’m even going on a summer road trip with my friend, Leslie — Hi Leslie! — to Maryland to visit our friend, Cathey — Hey Cathey!
Looks like we’re going to have a good old-fashioned quiltathon/quilt retreat like we used to do years ago at Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua NY) during Quilting around Chautauqua every September (sadly, the amazing quilt weekend is no more….). The three of us along with our other quilty pal, Mary Lee — Hey Mary Lee! — would rent a cottage and start our quilt weekend on a Wednesday so we could have a quilt retreat as well as enjoy the show on Saturday and Sunday. Ahhhhh, those were the days.
I can’t wait to catch up with these gals because we’ve all kind of gone in different directions since Chautauqua.
I’ll tell you all about my adventures in next week’s post, so stay tuned until then.
Now let’s continue our Summer Tutorial series with an oldy, but a goodie — my pattern, Whirly Bird.
VRD Whirly Bird Quilt Tutorial
Today we’re going to have a little fun with Whirly Bird. Have you made this quilt yet? If so, please please please share it on our VRD Facebook page ’cause I’d really like to see them!
If not, it’s fun and fast (of course) and has a lot of room for creativity.
Get your print Whirly Bird HERE or your digital Whirly Bird HERE.
When I designed Whirly Bird, I really wanted to do a gradation quilt featuring black, grey, and white. It turned out to be a pretty cool quilt with a very modern feel, which was what I was going after.
Let’s change things up today by swapping the lights and darks! I think you’ll be really surprised when you see the finished top.
So let’s get this party started, shall we?
For today’s Whirly Bird, I am using the Touch of Grey collection by our quilting partner, Hoffman Fabrics. Yep, I’m sticking with a neutral theme for this version, but that’s really where the similarities end.
The charcoal fabric at the bottom of the photo will be my background fabric and the 5 light fabrics in the center at the top will be the gradation strips in the quilt. The border is on the left and the binding is on the right.
The first thing we’re gong to do is cut the fabrics according to the pattern, but swapping out the dark charcoal for the background (or light) fabric and the light greys for the graduated grey strips.
While I cut, I am organizing my pieces on a flannel board so that I have the correct background piece paired with the correct light grey strip. Want to make your own flannel board? You can find the tutorial HERE.
By arranging my pieces on my flannel board in order, I can simply take the board right to my sewing machine and start sewing immediately.
So let’s do that!
Let’s sew the charcoal background pieces to the corresponding light grey strips. This step went really fast because I used chain piecing for each pair for each block, stacked them back on my board, and then moved onto the next pair.
Moving right along, we’re going to head to the ironing board. I pressed my seams to the dark, but this doesn’t work perfectly all the time. So press your seams in a way that makes sense to you.
A note about pressing — I don’t usually give directions for pressing seams in tutorials and even on my patterns because every quilter has their own way of doing things. For me, I usually make those decisions on the fly as I sew. I usually do press to the dark, but sometimes I find that when sewing the the pieces of a block together, I have to flip my seams to the other side.
Wanna hear a joke — an old favorite of mine?????
What has a light side, a dark side, and holds the whole universe together???
Keep reading to find the answer. Tehehe!
After I pressed each strip pair, I put them back on my flannel board to keep things neat and tidy.
And….back to the sewing machine!
Next we are going to sew the pieced strips together into a block. One word of caution about having your pieces laid out on your flannel board — make sure you have them laid out in the right order or else your blocks won’t turn out the way you want them to. As a lefty, I sometimes have to double and triple check block or even quilt layouts before I sew the pieces together because it’s just too dang easy for me to flip things the wrong way.
I used chain piecing to sew the blocks together. This process went super fast as I made all the blocks at one time, one step at a time, without stopping to press in between.
Now, back to the ironing board to give these blocks a good press. I like to press the seams from the back first. Then I repress the block from the front, making sure everything is nice and flat.
Remember, we PRESS in quilting, we do not IRON. Need a little refresher on pressing vs. ironing? Check out a blog post about pressing techniques from our 2022 Quilting Basics series HERE.
Woohoo! The blocks are done and pressed — let’s arrange them on my design wall!
This is the same arrangement of blocks as in the original Whirly Bird quilt on the front of the pattern. Wow! What a difference when you swap the lights and darks out in this design! What do you think???
This is just one of many arrangements. Here are some other possibilities to give you food for thought when you make your own version of Whirly Bird.
I bet you could even come up with 1 or 2 more!
I decided to go with the original arrangement, so now let’s sew the blocks into rows and then sew the rows together.
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! Especially the repeating little pop of grey print in the middle of the light grey tonal strips — yep, I planned that on purpose for added interest. 🙂 I really like how those center print strips flip up, down, and sideways in the blocks — it really does add a bit of a secondary design and helps move your eyes around the quilt.
Next up, we are going to add the border, although this quilt doesn’t have to have one — it would finish beautifully with a dark binding to frame the blocks. But, we’re adding a border.
Sew the sides on first and then add the top and bottom. For more added interest, I added dark fabric squares in the 4 outer corners. This is a little bit different than the original pattern, so let me tell you how I did it:
As this quilt is a square, I cut 4 borders the same length as my quilt top through the center and the same width as the pattern calls for as well as 4 squares. I sewed border strips to the sides of the quilt center. Next I sewed dark squares to both ends of the remaining 2 borders and then sewed them to the top and bottom of the quilt center. Easy piezy!
If you don’t want corner squares, though, simply cut and sew the borders like you normally would.
Here it is — my completed Whirly Bird quilt top. I really like how the dark corner squares connect to the dark block sections in all 4 corners.
What are your thoughts?
I’m planning to take this quilt with me to Cathey’s — I hope to get some machine quilting done. Fingers crossed……………
DUCT TAPE!!!
See you back here from Maryland next Thursday and I’ll tell you all about my trip. I hope Cathey’s hubby, Bryon, is doing all the cooking while we quilt, gab, laugh, and eat chocolate.
I’m going to get right to our tutorial today because you are going to LOVE LOVE LOVE today’s quilt! And I can’t wait to show it to you.
31 is our project du jour. It was designed by Molly Cook. You can go HERE to read an interview I had with Molly last year if you’d like to get to know her a little bit. Occasionally she pops onto the blog, but it’s been a while, so I’ll have to remind her she has an open invitation to hang out with us anytime she wants. Isn’t it fun to get to know your favorite VRD designers? I know, I know — I need to get my tush in gear and get some more interviews with our lovely designers, don’t I?
VRD 31 Quilt Tutorial
31 is a fabulous asymmetrical panel quilt design and looks great in pretty much any fabric collection!
This week I’m continuing my “Christmas in July” theme. For this quilt, I’m using the new Holiday Style collection by Satin Moon for our quilting partner, Blank Quilting (in store now). This gorgeous collection is traditional (poinsettias) and modern at the same time (red, pink, black, white, and grey colorway)! Which is probably why I adore it. I’m not a huge fan of woodsy deer and bears and such, but the deer on the panel is lovely and delicate with a Scandi feel. The artwork is beautiful and invites a second and even a third look at all of the details.
And here are the companion fabrics I’m using for 31.
Let’s get to it!
The first thing we need to do is trim the panel to the correct size. I measured my panel and decided to completely remove the printed plaid panel border and start over from scratch. The problem I ran into once I removed the outer part was that my panel ended up a bit small. But never fear — that’s an easy fix we’ll talk about in just a minute.
Now to fix the size issue — I did the math and figured out I needed to add 1/2″ to my side border strips so my panel with the border would end up the correct size. Luckily, the pattern includes the figures to guide you through trimming your panel and adding the panel border. Take your time to make sure your panel with the border will be the right size before moving on.
Please note that if your panel with the border is too small, add another narrow border and then trim it to the correct measurements. Conversely, if your panel with the border is too big, simply trim it to the correct size.
Once I figured out the math for sure, then I cut my borders. I thought it was kind of funny to cut off the grey plaid on the panel only to replace it with a grey plaid border. Silly me, but now the math works out just right.
I sewed my side borders on first and then I sewed my top and bottom borders to the panel after that. And PRESTO! My framed panel was exactly the right measurement because I took the time to figure it out before I cut and sewed. Yay me!
Now let’s cut the rest of the fabric for the quilt.
All set! Background and prints are cut and we’re ready to move on.
Time to make some Half Square Triangles (HSTs)! Believe it or not, but I really like making HSTs — probably because they are building blocks for so many different quilt block patterns.
Layer a background and a print square right sides together (RST) and draw a diagonal line from corner to opposite corner. Using your 1/4″ seam, sew on both sides of the line. Then cut on the line to make 2 HSTs. Easy piezy!
I like to chain piece all my HSTs before I head to my iron to press them. If you are able, press half of each print/background combination seams towards the background and the other half towards the print. This way your HSTs will nestle together, snug as a bug.
After you’ve pressed all of the HSTs, it’s time to square them up and cut off the little dog ears, if needed. I literally just trimmed off slivers to get them to the right size.
Have you ever tried a Bloc Loc ruler for squaring up/trimming your HSTs — there is a little diagonal channel that sits over your seam and keeps everything from moving or sliding around. Very clever ruler that does one thing and does it very well. Of course, there are lots of different square rulers on the market for squaring up HSTs and other blocks. What are your favorites?
Yippee! Now let’s sew our HST’s into Arrow (or Chevron) blocks. Sew 4 matching HSTs together into a Four Patch block, turning the HSTs as shown. This is where having 2 HST seams towards the background and 2 towards the print really comes in handy so that your seams nestle together and help you to have nicer points with less bulk.
Repeat to make all the Arrow blocks for the quilt. Then head over to the iron to give them a good press.
Now sew background rectangles to the top of the Arrow blocks.
Yay! On to one of my favorite parts (sometimes anyway….LOL!) — laying out and arranging the blocks. Now that I use a flannel-backed table cloth hung up in front of my fabric storage cubes, it’s a lot easier than it used to be when I laid my quilts out on a bed. Ugh! When I was a novice quilter (and a lot younger than I am now), I used to lay them out on the floor. Not anymore, thank you!
Lay out the quilt according to the pattern diagram, flipping the Arrow blocks as shown. I played around with my color placement and decided I liked the arrangement in the second photo the best.
Next, let’s sew the blocks together on the right side of the panel. Please note you will need to add a background strip to the top and bottom of the section so that it will fit.
Okay, let’s sew the bottom row of blocks together and then sew the section to the bottom of the panel. Yes, the borders are added in a clockwise fashion instead of adding opposite sides at the same time.
Looking good! Let’s sew a background border strip to the left side next.
The top background border strip is last.
And here it! 31 is done! Isn’t it lovely??? The colors just glow, don’t they???
I am thinking about adding an outer border to make it a bigger throw quilt size, but haven’t quite decided yet. What do you think — should I add another border or finish it as is?
As I am writing this post, I have my 31 quilt top up on my flannel wall so I can just enjoy looking it at. It will stay there until I start my next summer tutorial.
Don’t you just love classic summertime songs, especially from the 1950’s and 60’s? I do! When I was a kid in the summertime, we camped every weekend and probably every Friday and Saturday night we were all hanging out around a campfire with our camping friends, sharing stories and roasting hot dogs, making s’mores and camper pies. We’d have the Saturday night oldies program (Cousin Brucie, I think?) blaring on the radio and we’d all be singing along.
Ahhhhh, those were the days……. Thinking back, my wonderful childhood memories growing up in the 1970’s and 1980’s, lead me to yet another classic song, Time in a Bottle.
Image created by moi in Photoshop
I am happy to share that my sewing machine is finally up and running again on my new-to-me Koala Quiltmate III sewing table. YAY! This table is such a better height for little short me (under 5′ 4″ on a tall day) and I feel more comfortable now with my chair lower along with more leg room under the table, too. My old cabinet was lovely but a bit too tall for me and there wasn’t much leg room so I always felt crowded.
Hooray! Let’s hear it for new-to-you sewing tables! OH! I also bought a new cover for my old sturdy sewing chair to freshen it up from its drab 1980’s dark green tweed. Now to finally get the arms taken off my chair which will make “bellying up” to my machine much easier.
Please excuse my mess in the photo, but I am still sorting out my sewing area. I’m getting there….slowly. The important thing is I CAN SEW AGAIN!
Now that I can sewing again, I’m thrilled to put together another Summer Tutorial for you! I chose Duffy for a several reasons —
It’s super quick
I had a new fabric collection from Studio E ready to go
It’s July’s Top Along selection for Running Doe’s 2024 Top Along
Who doesn’t love making Christmas Quilts in July?
Sew, let’s get started!
VRD Duffy Quilt Tutorial
My fabric today is from one of our friends and quilting partners, Studio E — thank you! The collection is called ‘Tis the Season and it is shipping to quilt shops as I write this, so make sure to ask for it at your local quilt shop. Duffy is one of the featured patterns for Studio E’s ‘Tis the Season collection. Pretty cool, huh? VRD is popping up everywhere!
I’m using the gorgeous holiday birdhouse block fabric from the collection for my focal print in the blocks. Lucky me, the square are just the right size.
I don’t usually enjoy making swiss cheese out of my fabric (or, fussy cutting, if you prefer that term), but I didn’t mind with this project because I was cutting the printed blocks out, which really only left bits and pieces of the black swirl fabric between the blocks. I love that I even had a ruler to rotary cut the correct size square for the pattern.
The squares are ready, so let’s cut the rest of the fabrics.
Now it’s time to get down to the business of putting this delightful quilt together!
Please note there are 2 blocks in this quilt — the block is the same, but the fabrics are different in each one. As you make your own quilt, please make sure to keep your fabrics organized.
Let’s make our Flying Geese units for the first block. Layer a square RST on the right side of the Block 1 rectangle. Draw a line from the top left corner of the square to the opposite bottom corner and sew on the line. Cut 1/4″ away from the line. Feel free to save the cutaway triangles for another project (PSST! Sometime in the future I plan to create a pattern using all those cutoff triangles, so tuck them away until then). Open the unit and press towards the triangle.
Okay, let’s make the left side of our Flying Goose unit. Place the square RST on the left side of the rectangle this time. Draw a line from the bottom left corner of the square to the top right corner and sew on the line. Trim 1/4″ away from the line and save your cutoff triangles if you wish. Press open.
Voila! One Flying Goose unit.
Did you know that the center large triangle is the goose while the smaller outside triangles are the wings???
Now we are going to repeat the steps above to make Flying Geese units for the second block.
Check! Flying Geese units for both blocks are done.
Moving on, we are going to start making our quilt blocks. I told you this quilt goes together quickly, didn’t I?
Sew Flying Geese units to the sides (or in my case in the photos, the top and bottom) of the focal print square. I pressed my seams towards the center square.
Next sew Block 1 (OOPS! or 2 in my case — don’t ask me why I did things backwards here….) squares to the ends of 2 Flying Geese units. Then sew to the top and bottom (or sides in my case) of the focal print square. I pressed my seams towards the center. Make 6 Block 1s.
Okay, now on to Block 2 (or 1 in my case). Repeat the steps we did for Block 1 (or 2 for me). For Block 2, I pressed my seams towards the Flying Geese units, hoping that by doing so will make my seams nestle nicely together when I sew the blocks together. Make 6 Block 2s.
Woohoo! Super fast. Told you!
The blocks are done and let’s take a look at 2 variations of the quilt — all I did was change the placement of Block 1 and Block 2.
I bet there are lots of other variations, especially if you play around with your fabric placement.
These 2 are pretty much the same since it’s just switching the blocks, but which one do you like better? Which one do you think I chose?
If you guessed the second photo, you are right! Now it’s time to sew the blocks together.
I found that most of my seams did indeed nestle together. For the couple that were being stubborn, I forced them to behave.
It turned out really cute, don’t you think??? I really like the secondary designs that pop out. Because Duffy is baby quilt sized, I might just add an outer border to make it into a small throw-sized quilt because I just don’t have extra wall space for quilts.
Which brings me to some final thoughts for you about Duffy:
Add a border (or 2) to make it bigger — I’m thinking maybe a 6″ finished border as I have another fabric from the collection that I didn’t use.
Make more blocks to make the quilt bigger — just make sure you purchase enough fabric.
You could use Duffy as a jumping off point and add a series of pieced or appliqued borders, using Duffy as the quilt center.
You could add sashing between the blocks to give it an entirely different look and make it a bit bigger. When I add sashing to a quilt, I usually stick with cutting my strips 2 1/2″ wide.
Well, I hope you will have fun making your own Duffy quilt. I’d LOVE to see them so please share on our VRD Facebook Page.
Enjoy your summer! Do something fun with the ones you love. And don’t forget to squeeze in a little quilting.
Hope you enjoyed last week’s post about the quilt show I attended. I’m still smiling. 🙂 If you missed last week’s post, you can go HERE to see the fun slideshow I created with some of the amazing quilts on display at the quilt show.
Before we get to this week’s tutorial, Berry-Licious — which is lots of fun and very timely — let me tell you a little bit about the inspiration for this table runner. In my area of Northwestern PA, we always look forward to late spring/early summer for a lot of reasons, but one of my favorites are the local strawberries, which are only available for a few weeks in June. Yum, yum, yummy!
When I was a kid, my older sister and older cousins (I was too little) all worked at a local strawberry farm, picking berries. They would meet in town at like 6 AM, and someone from the farm would pick up the kids and drive them to the farm outside of town. Horrors! The kids actually road in the back of the truck to the farm! Then the kids would pick berries for hours, and got paid per quart that they picked. My sister only did it once because it was such hard work, but my older boy cousins did it every summer all through high school and were often the best pickers. The work only lasted 2 or maybe 3 weeks right after school was out for the summer. If you were a teen in my area, this was kind of a rite of passage. I don’t remember if when I was old enough to pick berries, kids didn’t do it anymore or if I just wasn’t interested, but picking strawberries was a rite of passage I never did.
Strawberries have always been one of my favorite fruits, though. When I was really little, we even had a tiered strawberry patch in the backyard. My Mom (Hey Mom!) would make the most delicious strawberry jam and we’d enjoy that all winter long. If I close my eyes I can almost taste it and my mouth is watering, just remembering….
Ahhhh, good times.
VRD Berry-Licious Table Runner Quilt Tutorial
Have you made Berry-Licious yet? It’s a fun and very satisfying runner. You can grab your very own Berry-Licious Rose Card print pattern HERE or digital pattern HERE.
In the sample runner on the pattern, I used a fun collection of plaids, dots, and geometrics in delicious bright red for the strawberries.
Aren’t they just delish? The peachy fabrics makes me think of a strawberry not quite ripe yet.
I just love seeing how different fabrics look in the same pattern, don’t you? That’s one of my absolute favorite things about our VRD Facebook group.
Check out these Berry-Licious runners made by Renay Trolinger (Hi Renay!) in our VRD FB group! Aren’t they just too much fun??? I especially love the runner on the left — you know, the one with all the attitude. Great work, Renay!
Let’s get this tutorial going, shall we?
After I cut all the pieces for the runner, I layered my large green and background squares to make Half Square Triangles (HSTs) for the leaves on the stem. Layer those squares right sides together (RST), draw a diagonal line from one corner to the opposite corner, sew on both sides of the drawn line, cut apart on the drawn line, and press the HST open (I like to press my seams to the darker fabric, but that doesn’t always work all the time).
Then like magic you get 2 HSTs! You’ll need to make 10 HSTs. Don’t forget to trim off those little dog ears on the corners!
Wait! We’re not done with those HSTs yet. Now we’re going to use the small background squares to make “flippy corners” — yes, I’m using the professional term here — on the green triangles of our HSTs.
Layer a background square RST on the corner of the green triangle. Draw a diagonal line from the bottom left corner to the opposite corner on the background square. (Yup, LOVE my Frixion pens, especially the Fineliner ones. This red one has been my favorite for a while now and shows up on almost everything.)
Sew ON the line this time and cut 1/4″ away from the line. Open and press. Repeat with all 10 HSTs.
We’re still not done with these HSTs! Tehehe……
Now we need to sew a background rectangle to the top of each HST, but we need to make 5 left side leaves and 5 right side leaves (simply turn 5 of the leaves so they are mirror images).
Whew! Last step with the HST’s for now!
Sew a left leaf and a right leaf together with a green stem in between. Strawberry tops are done!
Now we’re going to make our strawberries — yum, the best part of the runner!
We’re going to make 2 small flippy corners on the top corners and 2 large flippy corners on the bottom corners. Repeat for all 5 strawberries.
Now let’s add the stems to the tops of the strawberries! Make 5 blocks.
Isn’t this just the cutest yummiest quilt block ever??????
Now the blocks are done, let’s put them together into a runner. You actually have 2 options — you can flip the second and fourth blocks upside down like I did in the original runner on the pattern front or you could have all the strawberries going in the same direction. Which way do you like better?
Which one do you think I chose?
The flipped block version. I just love how the blocks look arranged this way. Take a look at the “negative space,” isn’t it interesting?
Maybe when I go to quilt it, I’ll play around with those cool shapes created by the strawberries and stems. How would you quilt it? My original version was quilted with loopy loops.
I had some fabric left over so I made this fun little wall quilt or pillow — I haven’t decided yet. It’s about 21″ square, so it could go either way. What do you think?
Well, that’s it for me for this week. I hope you enjoyed this truly scrumptious (anyone know what movie this phrase was in???) Berry-Licious runner and I look forward to seeing yours on Facebook soon.
Come back next week to see my next summer tutorial! Hmmm…..what should I do next???
Until next week —
Sew. Laugh. Eat Strawberries. LOTS of Strawberries. Repeat.
I’ve been thinking about ideas for summer posts and I think I’ll do a series of Summer Quilt Tutorials. Creating tutorials gives me a reason for getting some sewing in AND I have a stack of wonderful kits just waiting for me to make into quilts. The only problem with making a bunch of tops will be getting them quilted. LOL!
I can’t promise one tutorial a week over the summer, but I will definitely try. I may need to alternate tutorials with text posts because sometimes making the top and doing the photography takes me longer than a week to get ready, especially as summers get busier and busier.
Well, let’s get to it.
I chose Dusk Delight as my first summer tutorial because this pattern has been on my mind recently. I’ve done a few “digital” quilt mock ups with it recently and it really resonated with me for some reason. Maybe because of the controlled scrappy look? Or perhaps the vertical arrangement? Whatever it was, I was itching to make this one. Isn’t it wonderful that I had a quilt kit to make one???
Dusk Delight goes together easily, but I will caution you that making a big stack of blocks does take a little time. The assembly is not difficult, but can take some time to get everything put together. I would call Dusk Delight a quilt that you can make in a long weekend.
Read on!
VRD Dusk Delight Quilt Tutorial
Get your Dusk Delight physical pattern HERE or your digital pattern HERE.
Here’s the fabric I’m using for my Dusk Delight quilt. I just love pairing Hoffman batiks with our VRD Rose Card patterns! I’m using an 1895 Watercolors batik for the block centers and the vertical strips and a Bayshore Bali Pop for the blocks. I can’t wait to see how this turns out because I just love these beachy colors!
The first thing we’re going to do is cut all of our fabrics. We need block centers, vertical strips, and 2 sizes of rectangles for the blocks.
Here’s a couple tips for working with batiks:
Start with a new machine needle because a dull needle will only damage the fabric.
Use leaders and enders so that your machine doesn’t try to eat your fabrics at the beginning of a seam. Want to know more about leaders and enders? Check out this post HERE.
For my leaders and enders, I ‘m using a stack of green and white triangle cut-offs from a previous project. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get another little project out of these cut-off triangles.
Okay, let’s make blocks! A lot of blocks….
Sew a small block rectangle to the side of a block center.
Sew a matching rectangle to the other side of the block center.
Take a moment and press your unit so far. This helps to keep the block square as you add the next pieces.
Sew a big rectangle to the side of the unit.
Then sew the last matching rectangle to other side of the unit.
Press your block and voila! One block done.
Now make 39 more blocks! LOL!
Another tip — I made 5 or 6 blocks at a time so that I didn’t get the rectangles too mixed up as I sewed. This went faster than sewing a single block together at a time.
Oh goody! Now one of my favorite things — laying out the blocks. Of course, sometimes this part of the quilt-making process takes me longer than actually sewing everything together. The more I look at the arrangement, the more I move things around. But I do definitely love mixing and matching the colors….
To help me arrange the blocks, I put all the blocks and the vertical strips up on my handy dandy flannel board. It really is handy dandy — I use it way more than I ever thought I would. I have no idea why it took me so long to put one up. The only issue I ran into was that the quilt was longer than my board, so I had to do some creative layering at the bottom so I could see the bottom 2 block rows.
If you’re experiencing flannel board envy, let me tell you how to have your own handy dandy flannel board in a matter of minutes with very little cost. I stole this idea from my quilty pal, Mary Lee (Hi Mary Lee!), who has one up tacked to the top of a set of double doors that lead to her front enclosed porch (which she uses for storage).
Go ahead and get yourself a rectangular flannel backed tablecloth. You will want a heavy duty one with a thicker flannel on the back so that it will grab and hold your fabrics. They do come in different sizes — mine is 50″ x 72″ — so you can choose the one that fits your space. Now that it’s the good ol’ summertime, it’s the perfect time to find your very own flannel backed tablecloth.
There are lots of different ways to put your flannel backed tablecloth up. I use binder clips to clip my tablecloth to the top row doors of my cube storage wall. This way, I can remove it when I need to. If yours is removable like mine, you could even use it as a tablecloth so make sure to pick out a fun pattern on the front that matches your outside decor.
Well, I guess I’ve got the blocks arranged the way I want them…..maybe…….
So let’s sew them together before I change my mind again. LOL!
I’m going to sew the outside blocks together into rows before I tackle the center block section.
Now that the outer blocks are sewn together, I can no longer move them around.
Before I start the center block section, I need to piece my vertical strips together to make longer strips. I don’t want to forget to do this step or else my strips won’t be long enough.
Sew…..sew……sew. Press…..press…..pres…… Yay! The center section blocks are now sewn together. Of course, I had to play switcheroo a couple — or maybe a dozen — times before I sewed them together.
Wait! Which way do I want the center section? Gah! I’m still not done arranging, even though the blocks are sewn together. Which one do I like better — right side up in the left photo or upside down in the right photo. Decisions…..decisions…….
Which ever one I choose, this will be the final arrangement. Of course, I could flip the whole quilt upside down……ARGH!
I take it back, maybe arranging the blocks isn’t my favorite step after all!
Before I can sew the vertical sections together, I need to cut my vertical strips to the right length. Holding my breath here that it will be the perfect length. Of course it will, right?
Time to sew again. I pinned the vertical strip to the inside edge of each of the outer single block sections, matching centers and outside edges before stitching them together.
This part looks easy in the photos but it took me quite a while because my work space is so cramped right now. It was like wrestling an alligator from time to time.
I matched up the centers and ends of the left section with the left side of the center section. I crossed my fingers that the blocks would be decently lined up across the vertical strip.
Then I lined up, pinned, and sewed the right section to the right side of the center section.
Yay! Top done!
Wowzer! Why was I even worried??? It turned out great and the colors are just so calming. Ahhhhh! Now to get it layered with batting and backing (or with just fleece) so I can machine quilt it……someday!
I’d love to see your Dusk Delight quilts! If you haven’t joined our rockin’ fun and uber cool Facebook Group, please do! You can find the Group HERE. And post your Dusk Delights so we can all ooooh and ahhhh over them!
Back to my summer sewing, what fun! Next week’s tutorial will be a table runner, so stop back next Thursday to see which one.
Happy Memorial Day Week end to you too! What are your plans for this unofficial kick off to summer? For me, I am hustling to put together a garage sale for Friday and Saturday as this is THE BEST weekend all year to have a sale where I live. Fingers crossed that I’m not pulling an all-nighter Thursday to have everything ready for Friday. Wish me luck!
I am SEW EXCITED to share some AWESOME NEWS about Villa Rosa so I’m going to jump right in.
Exciting VRD NEWS!
Our Rose Queen and VRD owner, Pat Fryer, has a brand new fabric collection coming out with Riley Blake Designs! It’s called Bedazzled! and I can’t wait to share it with you! It will be available at your local quilt shops and at our online shop, villarosadesigns.com, in December! So mark your calendars now AND ask for it at your local shops.
Bedazzled! is a batik collection and is part of the Riley Blake Expressions line. It has 26 fabrics in rich saturated eye-popping colors! It’s fun and whimsical too!
Here is the entire collection:
Here are some larger images of each different pattern so you can see just how yummy the fabrics are:
Of course, Bedazzled! will be available in precuts — 5″ squares, 10″ squares, 2.5″ strips, and fat quarter bundles, so the collection will shine in lots and lots of VRD Rose Card patterns!
Speaking of VRD Rose Cards, here are the patterns Riley Blake Designs has selected to showcase with the collection.
And if that’s not enough — Riley Blake Designs has created a SUPER SPECIAL Rose Card Pattern Storage Tin! Finally!!! We’ve talked about storage ideas for your Rose Card collections many times in the past here on the blog and I know the topic comes up frequently on the Facebook group.
Thank you Riley Blake Designs for creating a solution for storing our Rose Card collections!
I am really excited about this tin and can’t wait to order several. I imagine we’ll carry them at villarosadesigns.com, but make sure you request these tins at your local quilt shop! I think they’ll go fast, so make sure you get yours in December.
Are you getting EXCITED yet???? Remember, Bedazzled! will be in stores in December, just in time for Christmas! I know what I’ll have on my Christmas list this year. Just sayin’ . . . .
One More VRD Update For You
Do you watch (and shop) Pat’s Fry-Day VRD Live Shows on Facebook? Or maybe you didn’t even know we had a weekly Live Show and Sale.
Here’s the info:
FRY-DAY HAPPY HOUR
Join us every Friday at 4pm PST on our Facebook Page for our Fry-Day Happy Hour.
Watch as we show new fabric and last-chance items – and comment to buy directly from the video.
I just wanted to let you know the show will now be available on the website due to some changes with the platform. We’re trying a few different things out right now in order to pick the new format that will be easiest for you, the shoppers and fans, so please be patient with us.
For now, you will be able to find the Fry-Day VRD Live Shows under the Live Shows tab at the top of the website. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Well, I guess that’s it for me this week. I’m off to work on getting my garage sale ready. If you find yourself in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, stop on over — I’d love to meet you in person.
Take care and be safe this Memorial Day Weekend. Don’t forget to kick back and relax, too.
Another week has passed us by and the only things I’ve sewn recently are my samples for this Bunny Ears Snack Mat tutorial. LOL! I hope you had better luck this past week getting some sewing in. I keep gazing at my collection of VRD Rose Cards as well as petting my fabrics and my sewing machine looks lonely across from me as I write here at my desk, but I just can’t seem to find enough time to actually get something going on my machine. Somehow I need to find a pocket of time — maybe I should sleep less so I can quilt more. But, no, that won’t work for me these days as I really do need those 8 hours of sleep a night. Ho hum…..
Update on Blog Hop Prizes
I just wanted to let everyone know that we are still working on getting everything shipped to Blog Hop Prize Winners. So far the quilts have been shipped, digital pattern collection winners have received their patterns, and prizes graciously being shipped by our lovely sponsors should be in the mail. Physical pattern collections haven’t yet been shipped but should be going out in the next couple days. I have a stack of prizes that also need to get mailed as well as the Kaffe Collection and the Mystery Box.
You may be scratching your head, wondering why it’s taking us so long to get everything sorted out and to the winners. That, my friends, is a complicated topic:
We had around 28 bloggers in addition to our own blog, which really makes 29. There were prize winners on ALL of the blog post. So that’s a lot of information to put together and organize! To make things even slower, we had some winners who never replied to their winner emails, so then we had to randomly select new winners and contact them to get their information. Egads! It literally took weeks to gets all the winners selected and confirmed. Really, I’m not kidding.
Prizes are being shipped from multiple locations — the quilts were shipped from the VRD shop in CA, physical pattern collections will be shipped from our pattern shipping location in MO, digital pattern collections were emailed by moi here in PA, sponsors are shipping prizes from their warehouses and office locations all over the US, and I am shipping prizes and 2 of the Grand Prizes from my little studio here in PA.
It’s crazy when you think of the logistics involved in our Blog Hop — kind of like dancing Swan Lake en pointe while trying to juggle knifes — very sharp knifes!
Happily, we should have everything out in the mail very soon. Winners hare receiving their prizes. Please continue to be patient as we get everything on its way to you.
Now, how about a fun tutorial?
VRD Bunny Ears Snack Mats Tutorial
Nothing says spring like a pair of bouncy little bunnies with extra-long ears! But before I even begin the tutorial, I need to let you know there is an update on the cutting instructions for piece B — you should have enough fabric left over to cut the updated piece, though. Please check the Corrections Page HERE for the new cutting measurement for piece B. Yes, we do have a corrections section at the bottom of our website, villarosadesigns.com, so if you ever find something on a pattern that doesn’t quite look right to you, please check the corrections page for updates.
Get your own Bunny Ears Snack Mat Rose Card physical patterns HERE or digital patterns HERE.
All right! Let’s make some cute bunnies!
The first thing we need is 2 fat quarters. Yep, just 2 FQs makes 2 adorable little Bunny Ears Snack Mats.
Time to cut all the pieces out — we’re actually doing the cutting for both Snack Mats at the same time. While I cut, I’m using my ancient homemade flannel board to keep my pieces from getting lost.
Did you miss my flannel board tutorial last week? You can find it HERE.
PSST! Don’t forget to switch your pieces before your start sewing so the bunny fabric in one block becomes the background in the other!
I know it doesn’t look like much yet, but here are my pieces all laid out for both blocks and ready to sew together. Having a small flannel board is great because I can just take it right to my sewing machine from my cutting table, without dropping or losing a thing.
As all the pieces are cut and ready to go, let’s start sewing these little Bunnies together!
Place a background square right sides together on the top left corner of the Bunny Head rectangle. Draw a diagonal line and sew on the line. Then cut 1/4″ away from the sewn line and press the “flippy triangle” open. Yup, that’s what I call them — “flippy triangles” — you know, I only use the technical terms here on the blog. LOL!
To make thing easier later, press the seam towards the Bunny.
Sew “flippy corner” on the top right corner and press this seam towards the Bunny Head too. Repeat to make identical “flippy corners” on the second mat.
Voila! Now we have 2 cute little Bunny Heads (with a crazy mess for Ears right now)!
Speaking of Bunny Ears, let’s make some! Place the background squares right sides together with the Bunny Ear rectangles, lining up the outside edges at the bottom. Draw diagonal lines as shown — keep in mind you are making mirror images. Sew on the lines and cut 1/4″ away from the drawn lines. Open the “flippy corners” and press the seams towards the background fabric.
Our Bunny Ears aren’t quite finished yet because we have to add some top “flippy corners,” too. The background squares used for the top of the Ears are larger than the squares used at the bottom in the previous step so be careful not to get the top and bottom squares mixed up.
Again, we are making mirror images. Repeat this step for the second block as well. Press the seams toward the background fabric.
We now have Bunny Ears! Yay!
Next, sew the background strip between the Bunny Ears and press the seams towards the center background strip. Repeat for the second block.
Almost there, just a few more steps!
Now sew the Ear section to the top of the Bunny Head for both blocks. If you pressed the “flippy corners” towards the Bunny Head in the first step, above, then your corners should nestle together nicely.
Ladies and Gents, we now have a Bunny, or rather 2 Bunnies!
Do you see how the green stands out and the floral fabric recedes? Aren’t fabrics so much fun to play with???
The last thing to do is sew the narrow background strip to the left side of the block and the large background piece to the right side of the block. Repeat for the second block.
And there you have it — Bunny Ears Snack Mats! Next up would be layering the Mats with batting and backing, quilting them, and adding binding.
Don’t forget to label your Snack Mats!
I hope you enjoyed this super cute tutorial and have fun making your very own Bunny Ears Snack Mats. They are quick and easy to make, using only 2 fat quarters, and are great little something-somethings for all your pals, quilty ones and non-quilty ones alike! Long live cute little Bunnies! Hurray!
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.
VRD Blog Hop Winners
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!
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……
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.
Bloggers and Sponsors
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:
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 —
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:
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.
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).
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.
Here’s how to win one of these finished quilts:
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 onthis 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 ADDRESSIN YOUR COMMENTSO 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!
Villa Rosa Quilts 