Week 3 & Week 4 - Villa Rosa Challenge

 Villa Rosa Designs is hosting a "6 Quilts in 6 Weeks" Challenge.  The quilts are being shared on their facebook page (5) Villa Rosa Designs | Facebook   It's not to late to join in.  I am considering extending my personal challenge to 10 weeks.  You can read all the details about it here 

Join the 6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge Today!.

Last week I posted my pink finish for RSC so I didn't get my "Week 3" posted here; tho I did share it on Villa Rosa's facebook page.   My week 3 finish was a UFO top I made last year.  I was given some bags of flannel scraps and I was inspired to make some tops from the Honey Bouguet pattern.  Here is one of them.  

Here is the back which is also a flannel.

Now for my Week 4 Challenge finish ...........

This is a big one.  I pieced and quilted it this month.  I will be turning it into a quillow; currently working on the pocket.  It finishes at 58 x 82.  I did alot of ruler quilting on it  using a very large quarter circle template by Amanda Murphy.  It has 80/20 batting and  is quilted with a Glide thread on top and Bottom Line gray in the bobbin.

The backing is the Queens Garden wide back from Marshalls Dry Goods.  

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.      

         Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing you a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

A Quilters Cove in RSC - Pnks

 

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge at Soscrapy for April is pink.  Here is my rendition of my Quilters Cove cottage in pinks.  This block will be trimmed down to 6 x 12 whcn finished in the quilt top. Judging by the leaves on the tree,  it must be a VERY windy day in the Cove today.

I also re-awakened my love for paper piecing this week.  It takes so much longer to dig thru the scraps than to sew the blocks.  Here are my 4 paper pieced pink houses.  They will finish at 6 inches square.  I dont have a final plan for them yet, but there will be trees and more houses.

Andree at Quilting & Learning - What a Combo! is hosting A Quilters Cove linky party this week.  You can also visit previous posts by visiting  A Quilters Cove tab at the top of this page.

I'm also joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                                                  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 4-24-2026

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

https://my.modafabrics.com/inspiration-resources/free-patterns

grab a cuppa...tons of free patterns

Hidden Wells Quilt Pattern Tutorial - Alanda Craft

hidden wells method - make a quilt or just a table runner

April Block- Umbrella — Quiltish Corner

CUTE block - love the squares design and how

it's quilted

Quiltish Corner — Freebies

a few tracking and binding calculators

plus a bit more

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

RSC for Pinks

 I made this quilt top last year from a bag of flannels donated to me by a quilter friend who doesn't like to work with flannel.  Lucky for me,  I find no difference working with flannel.  There were all sorts of flannel prints in the bags, so I tried to group them into batches that might work together.

This is a version made from the pink family.  The areas that appear red in the photo is really a dark fuscia pink.  Pic was taken indoors and I am still not very skilled with photography.  I don't know if I used a pattern, a photo from the web or just worked with what I had.  It finished up at 30 x 35.

Here is the back - also assembled from pieces of flannel.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                                                  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 4-17-2026

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Free Jelly Roll Quilt Patterns - Download & Sew | Fat Quarter Shop

a reminder from Liz B of Stashbusters:  2 pages of free

patterns using jelly roll strips

Happy Zombie » Projects

scroll a bit to the "Happy Zombie Freebie Shop"

for lots of quilts and small items

Free Patterns – April Grace Quilts

3 darling patterns: buffalo plaid quilt,

tulips and a wedge tree skirt

Free Patterns — namaju quilt studio

2 patterns - a table mat and a quilt design made 

with half square triangles 

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge - Week 2

The 6 quilts in 6 weeks challenge is taking place on the Villa Rosa Design page on Facebook.You can find out about this challenge on this blog post Join the 6 Quilts in 6 Weeks Challenge Today!  

Instead of whipping up a new quilt top, this week I went to the flimsy/ufo pile to unveil 3 Honey Bouquet tops and one very large The Lady top all made last year.  I started easy and prepared the Honey Bouquet child size top created from my scrap bin of blues.  I made 9 blocks, some are oriented 180 degrees and it finished at 45 x 54.  I quilted it on my very fancy domestic Janome.  I used a very dark navy solid fleece on the back, 80/20 batting and navy Glide thread top and bobbin.

Here is the Villa Rosa pattern that I used to make this quilt.  You can get your own copy here

Search: 5 results found for "honey bouquet" – Villa Rosa Designs

I'm sharing on the Villa Rosa Facebook page where you can see what other users of their patterns are sharing and also at these lovely sites sharing their linky parties.

                             Saturday -  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

RSC for April - Pinks Quillow Test

 I have a somewhat failed attempt for an experiment sample.  I did this because I want to make some lovely quillows.  I gathered several videos and pics to explain the process.  Too many methods clog my brain and comfuse me; especially how the pillow is placed so it comes up right side out.

So I thought I would make a sample to keep for reference. I started with pink 4 inch fin squares.  I made a little quilt sandwich

Then I added the little pillow ( made 1 inch larger than 1/3 of the quilt width aka 5 inches ).  I placed it on the back, pocket wrong side up.  Then applied the binding.

Fold the long sides into the middle;  roll 1/3 of it 3 times; then invert the pocket to wrap around the folded quilt.  You guessed it...... there's no way I can wrap the pillow over the quilt.

Just because its pink and its April;  I'm linking up with these lovely parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                                                  Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.