Hello Quilty Friends!
Happy Thursday to you!
I hope you are following along with the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina right now. I know I am. Every day has been hurry up and finish work, get dinner, take care of the fur babies, and finally collapse in my comfy chair for another evening of the Olympics. What are your favorite events? For me skating, skiing, bobsledding, and snowboarding are probably my top favorites but I enjoy watching pretty much any of the sports.
I am so in awe of the Olympians whether they win gold or are in last place – they worked incredibly hard to get there, overcoming many obstacles along the way, and earned the right to represent their respective countries. I am not the most coordinated person (I trip on air – LOL!), so seeing the amazing skills and sheer determination of the Olympians is very inspiring to me. And watching the Olympics brings to mind a lifetime of warm memories when everything stopped for 2 weeks so my family could watch the Olympics together. In fact, for the most part, we are still doing that now. To me, the Olympics means family.
In celebration of the Winter Olympics, I thought it would be fun to create a new curated list of VRD Rose Card patterns. But before, we get to that, I’m going to give you the answers to the “Who and I?” and “What am I?” quilt riddles from last week’s post. If you missed last week’s quilty silliness, you can find it HERE.
I’m measured in quarters, yet I’m not a coin.
I’m bundled and tempting, a fabric siren.
“I’ll take just one,” is what you’ll say…
Then I bring friends home anyway.
What am I? FAT QUARTER
I’m a block with a name that sounds like a bird,
Yet feathers aren’t needed, and that’s not absurd.
I travel in flocks, pointy and neat,
But one flipped triangle ruins the beat.
What am I? FLYING GEESE
I’m a pattern you can’t always see,
But I make the quilt feel extra “me.”
Loops or lines, I’m stitched with care,
Across the top and everywhere.
What am I? MACHINE (OR HAND) QUILTING
I’m a friend with numbers and lines,
Quilters trust me all the time.
I help make seams straight and true,
But don’t get too close when the blade comes through.
What am I? QUILTING RULER
Did you get all of the quilt riddles correct? If not, which one stumped you?
Now let’s take a look at my new curated list for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina. Maybe you’ll find a few new-to-you patterns to add to your VRD Rose Card collection….
Curated VRD Rose Card Collection for the 2026 Winter Olympics
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With as many curated collections I’ve created with our VRD Rose Cards, I’ve pretty much decided I could probably create a group of patterns to correspond with almost any topic. I guess that’s what happens when you put together such a talented group of designers like our Rose Queen Pat Fryer has done. And don’t forget our 700+ patterns in the VRD catalog. You can find some of the other curated lists I’ve put together with VRD patterns HERE. Is there an idea percolating in your mind that you’d like to see as a curated collection of VRD patterns?
I just had one more thought today about the Olympics – what would a Quilt Olympics look like? Any ideas for events for such an event? Where would we hold it? What would the awards be for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places? Let’s revisit the Quilt Olympics in next week’s post – I hope you leave a comment with your thoughts.
Until then, enjoy the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina. And quilt. Maybe you’ll be inspired by the Olympics or the curated list above to start a new project.
See you right back here next Thursday.
Sew. Laugh. Watch. Repeat.
Always,
Tricia @ VRD
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