6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge – Week 6, NEW November VRD Quilt Patterns, and VRD Rose Card Pattern Storage

November 13, 2025November 12, 2025 rosecards5 Comments

Hello Quilty Friends!

Greetings from snowy northwestern Pennsylvania! We had around 5 inches of lake effect snow (thank you Lake Erie!) dropped on us Monday night. It sure did look beautiful when I got up Tuesday morning. Suddenly I had the urge to listen to Christmas music and binge-watch Hallmark Christmas movies while sipping hot chocolate with scads of marshmallows floating on the top.

So apparently for me, the Christmas holiday season has begun. When do you usually get your Merry on?

It also made me start thinking about what holiday fun I wanted to do on the blog. Still brainstorming right now, in case any of you lovely readers have any holiday ideas you might like to see on the blog.

But for right now, let’s get back to our Challenge!

Our winner for Week 5 is ……………

Barb F.

Congrats, Barb! Keep up the good work!

Now let’s check out my Week 6 finish!

6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge – Week 6

For my final Week 6 finish, I chose to complete my blog tutorial sample, Ebb Tide.

A colorful quilt design titled 'Ebb Tide' featuring various patterns in shades of pink, purple, and teal, framed by decorative borders.

Get your digital pattern HERE or your print pattern HERE

This is one of my absolute favorite patterns for using large prints! The framing really gives large print fabrics room to shine as well as to breathe. It is fat quarter friendly and finishes at a nice 47″ x 61″. To make it larger, simply add an outer border – a 6″ finished border would make the quilt a nice 59″ x 73″.

Here is my Before photo:

A patchwork quilt featuring various floral and patterned fabrics, displayed outside against a backdrop of blooming yellow flowers.

YIKES! In looking for my “before” photo, I discovered the Ebb Tide tutorial was from 2023 – way past time to get it finished, don’t you think?

The fabrics are fall-licious batiks from our friends over at Hoffman.

And here is my After photo:

A quilt with a patchwork design featuring rich burgundy, cream, and floral prints, displayed draped over a chair in a cozy setting.

I considered photographing it out in the snow, but I didn’t want to bundle up in order to go outside so I ended up taking an inside photo.

I quilted Ebb Tide with a copper colored cotton thread in my usual allover meander design. It is backed with a cream fleece that has little stars on it. The binding is a brown stripe batik, which I cut on the bias so my stripes are diagonal. I was a little nervous to finish the binding by machine because the last time I machine-finished a bias binding, the edges ended up rippling.

WHEW! What a relief – this time it finished beautifully with no rippling and the corners actually turned out quite well, too. I think finishing the binding by machine for the last 6 weeks has helped me gain a little more confidence with this technique. This winter, though, I plan to snuggle under quilts, watch movies, and do some hand binding.

I want to thank everyone who signed up and participated in this Challenge. I hope you are as pleased with your accomplishments as I am with mine. Let’s all pat ourselves on the back for a job well done.

We will have one final winner next week.

I’m thinking we’ll do this Challenge again in the New Year. That way, we can keep finishing our UFO’s and flimsies so we don’t feel a little guilty every time we start something new.

Now let’s take a look at the NEW VRD patterns for November. Yay!

NEW November VRD Rose Card Patterns

I LOVE the Thursday after the first Friday of every month because that means – NEW PATTERNS!

Here is the set of 5:

A promotional image showcasing five new quilt patterns for November 2025: Fall Windmills, Markesan, Limited, Nevermore, and Warrenwood, with pricing information.

Get the set of 5 print patterns HERE

Fall Windmills is Sewl Sister’s super fun quilt this month. It finishes at 48″ x 60″. You can find a Fall WIndmills kit on the VRD website featuring the Planetarium collection HERE.

A colorful quilt featuring a geometric pattern with shades of teal, gray, and white, showcasing various block designs in a patchwork layout. — *Fall Windmills in Planetarium*

Limited is Molly’s newest pattern. It uses either 10″ squares or FQs and finishes at 45″ x 59″. You can find kits featuring the same fabrics as the cover quilt HERE.

Markesan is this month’s new mod quilt by Rachelle Handmade. It is Jelly Roll friendly and finishes at a nice 60″ x 70″.

Nevermore is by yours truly and features a 24″ panel along with some coordinates and an accent. It finishes at 47″ x 66″. Anybody get the name reference of the pattern???

Warrenwood is Pat’s 11th Tim Holz Palette design and is fat quarter friendly. It finishes at 45″ x 59″. You can find kits featuring the Tim Holtz Charcoal Palette HERE.

And this month, there’s a NEW Table Runner, too.

A colorful quilt pattern titled 'Family Fun-gi' designed by Tricia Lynn Maloney for Villa Rosa Designs. The design features a crafting theme with blocks and textured fabric elements against a pastel background.

Get your digital pattern HERE or your print pattern HERE

Family Fun-gi is a cute little mushroom runner with a silly name (I can say that because it’s one of my runners, LOL!). And guess what??? The mushrooms could also be trees if you wanted. The runner finishes at 17″ x 45″ and goes together really fast. You can find a kit featuring the Sienna collection HERE.

A quilted table runner featuring a pattern of three stylized trees with a floral and leaf design in autumn colors against a dark background. — *Family Fun-Gi in Sienna*

One last thing before I go…….

NEW VRD Rose Card Storage Option

Our VRD designer and partner, Running Doe, has created a brand new storage option – a discbound binder for storing your Rose Card patterns. Each binder comes with 40 sleeves to hold 40 patterns. Get yours HERE.

A mint green discbound binder with several clear plastic sleeves, designed for pattern storage.

Want to learn more about Catherine’s binder? Check out her Facebook video HERE.

Don’t forget – just because our Challenge is over doesn’t mean you can’t still finish one UFO each week. I’m going to try.

Take care and just keep quilting!

Sew. Laugh. Finish. Repeat.

Always,

Tricia @ VRD

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Squeezing in More Quilting Time and Rose Card Storage

May 26, 2022June 8, 2022 rosecards4 Comments

Hello Quilty Friends!

Happy Thursday to you! I hope you are having a great week. Mine is moving right along at breakneck speed. It’s kind of scary — the older I get, the faster time passes. It reminds me of a quip by a family friend once — “I thought I saw someone I knew on my way in. Oh! It was only me on my way out!” Ha ha!

Funny, but not funny.

How do you find time to devote to your quilting habit or other creative endeavor?

Here’s my top 5 list to squeeze in more sewing time:

5. Stay up late or get up early (my least favorite, but it works in a pinch)

4. Have everything I need in one place before I start a project so I can use my sewing time without having to stop to find what I need next

3. Let someone else do the driving — you wouldn’t believe how much binding I can get done on shopping trips

2. Make smaller projects — I love making table runners, wall quilts, baby quilts, and throws. Smaller projects use less fabric than giant bed quilts too, just sayin’

1. Rose Cards! (Bet you saw that one coming. LOL!)

Rose Card Storage Ideas

Rose Cards aren’t just fun little patterns, they are highly addictive to collect. As there are over 400 different patterns in print right now (with more added every month), your Cards might be piling up. Mine are!

Sew, what do you do with your Cards when you’re not using them?

I’ve even noticed some discussions on our Facebook page recently about how people store their Rose Cards — thank you for sharing! This really made me start re-thinking my whole storage system, which isn’t really working for me anymore.

When I started collecting them in 2010, I put mine in little photo albums.

At first, an entire year’s worth of Cards fit in one album with pages to spare. But later, as more and more Cards were published each year, one album just wasn’t enough.

This worked for years, but now I have a bunch of little albums arranged with dates on the covers and it’s hard to find a specific Rose Card, unless I know what year it came out. Now what?

On Facebook, someone mentioned using small clear boxes and alphabet tabs. I thought I’d try this idea and will alphabetize them by name, instead of keeping all the Cards from a specific year together.

Since this is my new method, I don’t know how well it’s going to work for me yet. I’ll have to live with it for a while. You’ll have to check back in later to find out how well this method works for me.

Last week end, I attended a quilt show and some quilters even offered me more ideas when we were talking about Rose Cards. Like my idea of organizing them alphabetically in a plastic storage box, a friend suggested a vintage recipe box. I really liked this idea — it would be especially meaningful if you had your mother or grandmother’s vintage recipe box because you would think of her every time you pulled out a Rose Card to use. Nice!

Another idea someone shared with me was using a ring binder filled with the clear plastic pocket inserts used to store baseball cards. A plus with this idea is that you can see the front and back without taking the cards out of the sleeves. But I’m not sure that would help me find a specific card I was looking for.

Maybe you could also get dividers and organize your Cards into different categories — whatever made sense to you! Wouldn’t it be great to group Cards by the fabrics used — like fat quarters, charm squares, strips, yardage, panels, etc.? Or by the size or type of quilt — like table runner, baby quilt, throw, bed quilt?

I’m curious — how do you organize your Rose Cards?

VRD Invites You…

Did you enjoy the Bear Hugs story last week? Now every time I look at that pattern or see photos of someone’s version of the quilt, I will think of little J and his surprise entry into the world.

Want to share your own VRD Rose Card story? We’d love to hear it!

Please email your quilt story and original photo along with the name of the Rose Card pattern you used to make the quilt to tricia@villarosadesigns.com. Stories and accompanying photos will be selected randomly to share on our blog and Facebook. This project will be ongoing. If your story is selected, we’ll send you a little thank you surprise in the mail! Can’t wait to hear your quilt stories!

Until next Thursday —

Sew. Laugh. Repeat.

Always,

Tricia @VRD