NEW December VRD Rose Card Patterns, Rose City Sewing Grand Opening, and Holiday Gift Idea #4

December 11, 2025December 10, 2025 rosecardsLeave a comment

Hello Quilty Friends!

Happy Thursday to you!

As I begin writing today’s post, I am sitting in the waiting area at my local Safelite getting a new windshield in my little red Jeep Compass, Sassy. This is her Christmas present (as well as for me). Luckily for me, Safelite has free wifi as well as TV tables so customers can work while they wait.

A snowy winter scene with a parking lot covered in snow and slush. In the background, trees are bare, and snow is falling gently from the gray sky. — This photo shows what it looks like right outside right now.

Welcome to Pennsylvania in winter – except, well, it isn’t really winter. Not yet, anyway. Huh. Mother Nature, what are you up to now?

It’s a really really ugly day today – we are getting a winter storm right now here in NW Pennsylvania. If I hadn’t had a couple important appointments, I would have happily stayed home today. The roads were pretty horrible on my way into town, slushy and slippery. It’s a very wet snow/slush mix because the temperatures are right around freezing. We may also get freezing rain. Then we’re going to get lake-effect snow on top of all of this as the temperatures drop.

Sadly, I didn’t see one snow plow on my way and several of the roads hadn’t been plowed (including in town). I was lucky if there was a little salt down the middle of the road. I drove really really slow today and I still managed to slide through an intersection. YIKES! But I’m here and Sassy is getting her new windshield. Hoefully the roads will be in better condition when I head home later.

Enough about winter weather, let’s talk NEW PATTERNS!

NEW December VRD Rose Card Quilt Patterns

Anyone know what today is???? It’s the Thursday after the first Friday of the month and that means………NEW PATTERNS! YAY!

Graphic showcasing five new quilt patterns for December 2025, including Autumn Leaves, Feline Friends, Fruit Cake, Caledonia, and Lending, with captions and designer names.

Get the set of 5 Print Patterns HERE

We have a nice cross-section of new patterns this month – something for everyone!

Melissa has 2 fun new patterns this month – Autumn Leaves and Feline Friends. Yay! We’ve even got kits for you.

A vibrant quilt featuring a variety of stylized leaf patterns in multiple colors set against a white background, showcasing autumn-inspired designs.

Autumn Leaves VRD kit in Madison One fabric HERE

A patchwork quilt featuring a design with cat shapes in black, gold, and white fabrics, arranged in a repeated pattern.

Feline Friends 3 Aunts kit in Klimt fabric HERE

Heidi has a fun holiday pattern for you called Fruitcake.

Ahhh! I’m smiling right now, remembering the yearly fruitcake my Great Aunt Jule would send my family for Christmas when I was a kid. It was the one in the tin and I don’t remember if we ever actually ate it because it looked kind of scary and weird. LOL!

You can find Fruitcake kits featuring Australian prints (like the pattern cover quilt) over at 3 Aunts HERE.

Pat designed another fun and fast quilt called Caledonia, featuring Tim Holtz Palette fabrics. You can find a kit with the same fabrics you see on the pattern cover at 3 Aunts HERE.

Rachelle also has a new pattern for you this month called Lending. And of course, there’s a kit for you, too.

Colorful quilt featuring a patchwork design with blue, green, black, and grey fabric squares arranged in a grid pattern against a light pink background.

You can find the Lending VRD kit in Simply Primitive fabrics HERE.

But wait – there’s MORE!

We have 2 – yes that’s 2 – NEW Table Runners this month! Yippee!!

Heidi created this super fun and speedy runner that couldn’t be more festive – she calls it Heidi’s Ho Hos.

A holiday-themed table runner with 'HO HO HO' in red and green letters on a white quilted background, bordered with a candy cane-like striped pattern.

You can find the Digital Pattern HERE or the Print Pattern HERE.

There’s a 3 Aunts kit for Heidi’s Ho Hos featuring the same fabrics you see on the pattern front HERE.

And the second runner, Jingle, is by yours truly. I’m thinking Jingle would look great in any color combination. Right now, of course, I’m thinking of make a wintery blue and white one next. Hmmm….I wonder why. LOL!

A quilted table runner titled 'Jingle' featuring red, green, and patterned fabric, displayed outside in a snowy forest setting.

You can find the Digital Pattern HERE or the Print Pattern HERE

Speaking of different color combinations for Jingle, we have a VRD Jingle kit available featuring America fabric HERE. PSST! Maybe you can get a head start on 2026 and the 250th anniversary of the United States.

A vertical quilt runner featuring a pattern of alternating blue and red quilt blocks on a white background.

Seasonal and holiday table runners make such great gifts! Especially for that someone on your list who has everything and needs nothing – you know exactly who I’m talking about, we all have one. And guess what??? You still have enough time to make a runner or 2 before the big day – they are VRD patterns, after all.

Now that we’ve seen all of the new December patterns, I’ve got some great news to share.

Rose City Quilting Grand Opening

Congratulations to Catherine and Pat and everyone at Rose City Sewing!!!

Graphic promoting the grand opening of Rose City Sewing with a sewing machine, a stylized deer, and roses, including event details: December 12-13, 10 AM - 4 PM, at 3401 GE Drive.

Our VRD designer and quilting partner, Catherine of Running Doe Quilts, announced that the new Rose City Sewing shop in Tyler, Texas will have its grand opening this weekend on December 12th and 13th. Rose City Sewing will also be the new Texas home of VRD. If you’re in the area, stop by and say hello – Pat will be there, too. Just tell ’em Tricia sent you!

Holiday Gift Idea #4

I’m really enjoying searching for super cool Holiday Gift Ideas with a quilting theme. Whether it’s something for your quilting bestie, something you add to your Holiday Wish List, or something you even buy for yourself, it’s always fun to get some fresh ideas. And I’m happy to help.

This week’s suggestion is something we can do that’s quilty when we can’t get to our sewing machines – quilty puzzle books! Here are some puzzle books I’ve enjoyed, I’ve gifted, or I’ve received as a gift.

Cover of the 'Large Print Quilt Games' book, featuring colorful quilt block designs and a variety of puzzles and activities.

Cover of the large print edition of 'Quilt Games 2', featuring colorful quilt block designs, puzzles, and activities including mazes, word searches, and sudoku.

Quilt Games Volume 1

Quilt Games Volume 2

The Quilter’s Puzzle Book Volume 1

The Quilters Puzzle Book Volume 2

Happy Quilter Variety Puzzles Volume 2

Happy Quilter Variety Puzzles Volume 3

Well, that’s it for me today. Stay warm and safe. And enjoy all the moments leading up to the Holidays.

See you next week!

Sew. Laugh. Enjoy the Season. Repeat.

Always,

Tricia @ VRD

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NEW June VRD Rose Card Patterns and an Impromptu Road Trip

June 12, 2025June 11, 2025 rosecards2 Comments

Hello Quilty Friends!

Happy Thursday to you!

Guess what day it is, folks!?! It’s the Thursday after the first Friday in June, and you know what that means ………. NEW PATTERNS! Yippee!

Check these beauties out!

Here is the set of 5 monthly patterns for June. Definitely a little something for everyone, don’t you think?

A set of five monthly quilt patterns for June 2025, featuring the names Escalate, Sunita, Limerick, Tomah, and Well Seasoned, with a price of $8.95.

Get all 5 print patterns HERE

Aren’t they lots of fun? Tomah is spot-on for your upcoming July 4th celebration. Escalate makes a BIG bed quilt and uses 1/2 yards. Sunita uses just 3 fabrics! Limerick and Well Seasoned are both fat quarter friendly and make nice throw-sized quilts. Although we offer them as a set of 5, you can get them as individual patterns, both as digital or as print.

Digital patterns HERE

Print patterns HERE

And in case I haven’t said this for a while, there is zero shipping on print patterns in the US (we only offer the digital format internationally). Yep, that’s right – ZERO shipping on print patterns regardless if you purchase 1 or 100!

But wait……there’s more!

I can’t forget this month’s table runner, can I? It’s called Stars & Ribbons and will make a wonderful statement on your July 4th table next month.

A table runner titled 'Stars & Ribbons', featuring a red, white, and blue quilt design, displayed against a backdrop of colorful flowers.

Get your digital pattern HERE or your print pattern HERE

Which pattern are you going to make first???

I was planning to do another tutorial for this week, but life got in the way. Ho hum….. Hopefully I’ll have a new tutorial for you next week.

Instead, let me tell you about my impromptu road trip!

Road Trip

So today I’m on an acquisition road trip with pal Robin and her brother Dan in Robin’s big blue truck. We are heading to Apollo PA, which is in the Pittsburgh area, to pick up a new desk solution for me for my studio/office space.

Currently, my desk is an old sewing table with a wooden top and metal legs. Good and sturdy, but not very ergonomic because it’s a bit too high for short little ol’ me. I’ve been on the lookout for a new desk for a while now, hoping to maybe find an L-shaped desk with at least one file drawer and as much storage as one can possibly cram into a desk to help keep me organized – most of the time my desk looks like an office and quilt store collided. LOL!

Sigh……I have found that if I don’t have a specific place to put something, then I just end up with piles on my horizontal surfaces. My defense – I think paper and fabric multiply like rabbits…….. So because of my tendency towards clutter, I am totally a storage junkie. Can you relate?

I’ve been watching Facebook Marketplace for a gently used desk and the other morning, an intriguing possibility popped up. I’d seen it before, but I didn’t take a closer look then. This time, I stopped and took that closer look and I liked what I saw – a group of Ikea (YAY! LOVE Ikea!) office pieces that could be arranged in lots of different configurations. A tall shelf, 2 desktops, a small desk (which had one of the desk tops on top), 3 drawer units, and a chair. Exactly what I have been looking for, but I didn’t know that I was looking for it until I saw it! Does that make any sense? I really really like the flexibility of the pieces.

A garage space showing a dark brown office desk setup, including a desk, shelving unit, and a chair, with tiles on the floor and natural light coming through a window. — Here are all the desk components.

The pieces looked to be in decent condition; however, there were a few hesitations before I messaged the owner. First, the pieces were dark brown instead of my usual white. I thought about that for a quick second and decided I could accept it because the flexibility made up for the color. Second, and it was a biggie – the pieces would definitely not fit in my cute little red Jeep Compass.

I needed a truck!

I messaged the seller and asked a few questions. She was quick to reply. OK, now what???? I still needed a truck. So, I sent an SOS to my quilty pal, Robin, who just so happens to have a really big blue truck. Yay! Problem solved. ROAD TRIP!

Interior view of a truck while driving on a highway, showing the dashboard, a driver steering, and a passenger on the right. — On the road in Robin’s big blue truck to pick up my new desk and storage! Dan is driving and Robin is navigating. Lucky me! I get to chill in the backseat.

It was around 2 hours to drive to get to the seller’s home in the Apollo area, which turned out to be a lovely farm with horses running in a fenced field right beside the driveway to the house. What a pretty setting it was! I wanted to get a photo of the horses for the blog, but by the time we were all loaded (which seemed to take only minutes with the owner’s husband and Dan teaming up), the horses had all headed to get water further down in the field and I couldn’t see them anymore. Dang it!

A man loading furniture into the back of a blue truck, with a sunny sky and greenery in the background. — Dan took on the important task of arranging the desk pieces in the truck. What a pro – he fit them together just like puzzle pieces and we had room to spare.

Two women smiling for a selfie outdoors with a sunny sky in the background. — Robin and I were the supervisors while Dan and the owner’s husband loaded the truck. Tehehe!

A blue pickup truck loaded with black furniture pieces secured in the bed, parked on a gravel driveway under a sunny sky. — Here’s Robin’s big blue truck all loaded up and ready to head home.

It took longer to come home than it did to get to Apollo because we stopped off for dinner at Eat n’ Park and then to get fuel. Once we made it to my home, we unloaded all the pieces and Dan helped me get them into the space I had carved out in the back of the garage.

A cluttered workspace filled with dark brown Ikea office furniture pieces, including desktops, drawer units, and a chair, ready to be assembled in a studio. — Here’s my desk and storage – I can’t wait until I have space for them in my studio/office.

Of course, before I can set up my new workspace, I have to do a HUGE clean/sort/purge in my studio/office to make room. Not only is it my work area, it’s also the pantry and storage (most of the crates are mine, but not all of them). Luckily, I’ve been cleaning the garage and I have some space to store the pieces until I’m ready for them. Now that the pieces are stashed in the garage, I think that will really motivate me to get the clean up in my space done ASAP so I can arrange my lovely Ikea pieces into a configuration that will work for me.

I am thrilled there are lots of storage drawers with multiple file drawers! That means I will have no excuse for a messy desktop anymore. There is also a wonderful cube storage shelf as part of the desk system. Finally! A place for my books. Piles of books – begone!

I’ve been trying to visualize different configurations, but I know I’ll have to wait until my space is cleared out so I can create my dream office space in my dungeon studio. It will be some time yet before I will be able to get everything just the way I want in my studio/office, so there won’t be any before/after photos right now. Of course, I’ll show it off when I’m all done, so you’ll just have to stay tuned.

A BIG thank you goes out to Dan, Robin, and her big blue truck!

That’s it for me this week. I think I’ll head outside to enjoy a little sunshine now because I think summer has come before spring even had the chance to hang out.

Sew. Laugh. Repeat.

Always,

Tricia @ VRD