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Uncategorized · June 11, 2012

On a stashbusting roll

A few days before quilt market a customer called Keep Me In Stitches to tell us to look for Villa Rosa patterns while we were there.  She had recently picked up a couple of them and thought they would be great for quick and easy projects.  I ended up taking a schoolhouse session with the designer and she gave us a set of her newest 10 patterns.  These are easy lap-size projects and the pattern is simply printed on a postcard.  I came home thinking about how great these will be for busting stash.  The first one I made was from the pattern “Opening Night.”

opening night

I had several pieces of fabric from the Benartex “City Girl” line by Kitty Yoshida.  I’ve always like the large paisley print in this line but just hadn’t found a suitable project.  I used the paisley for the sashing strips and border and the coordinating prints in the blocks.  It only took a few minutes to do the cutting and less than three hours to piece the top.  I was very pleased with the results, loaded it on the frame and quilted it using an overall freehand design with feathers, swirls and curls.  Here’s how it turned out.

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I’m pretty happy with the results and of course, it looks much, much better in person than in the photo.  It was fun to make and I used about 7 yards of fabric. I even had a fabric for the back that coordinated beautifully.

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This quilt is now for sale in my Etsy shop. 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/101766089/city-girl-espresso-and-blue-lap-quilt

Now I’m working on another Villa Rosa pattern called Granada.  I’m also using stash for this quilt.  It is a line of pastels and I’m really liking how it’s coming along.  Maybe I’ll finish it tomorrow and have some pictures to post.

granada

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