Showing posts with label hot air balloon quilt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hot air balloon quilt. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Birds, Bears, Bunnies in Hot Air Balloons Quilt (for the Fast & More Fun Blog Hop 2024)

Hello everyone and welcome to the Blog Hop! We were each given 5 quilt patterns from Villa Rosa Designs and we could make one or all 5 of the quilts, if we wanted to. I chose to make the 31 Quilt, which uses a panel. I love this sweet panel and was glad to finally get it made into a quilt! This blog hop was just the thing to get me going and I think it turned out great, don't you?

We could make one of these quilts or more~


You can purchase a set of these 5 patterns. Or visit Villa Rosa website for even more great Rose Card patterns (over 600 of them). Or you might just win a set, (scroll down below for prizes).

The panel I used is from Benartex fabrics called, Breezy Baby Sunshine Quilt Panel. 
The finished quilt measures 42" x 58"

This is a perfect quilt for a baby born in New Mexico (where I live), since Albuquerque is home to the annual International Balloon Fiesta, the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, happening every October for 9 days.

I made a label and named this quilt: Birds, Bears, Bunnies in Hot Air Balloons.
 I also backed the quilt with a hot air balloon print that is flannel, so it is soft.

Quilted in a gridded diamond using a variegated thread.

Closer look at the cute birds, bears and bunnies.










After trimming my panel, before I could add the borders, I found the panel was a wee bit too short, so I added that narrow orange border next to the gray border to bring it up to the correct size and I really like it much better as that orange pops! 
Okay, I know I get carried away with the photos, but I just love how this quilt turned out and wanted to show it in different poses, LOL!!!

Here is the schedule for the Blog Hop. Be sure to comment at each stop to be registered to win some fabulous prizes! 

Thursday, March 14
https://villarosaquilts.com/

Friday, March 15
1. Kathleen McCormick -- https://kathleenmcmusing.com/
2. Cheree H -- http://livelylatte.blogspot.com/
3. Roseanne Nelson -- https://www.homesewnbyus.com
4. Wendy Tuma -- https://www.piecefulthoughts.com/
5. C&T (Valerie) -- https://www.ctpub.com/blog/

Saturday March 16
1. Bernie Kringel -- https://needleandfoot.com/
2. Sandra Walker -- https://www.mmmquilts.com/
3. Linda -- https://www.texasquiltgal.com/
4. Debbie Huber – http://time4stitchn.blogspot.com/
5. SIY (Branyn/Jennifer) – https://siysewityourself.com/

Sunday, March 17
1. Carolyn -- https://quarterinchcapers.blogspot.com/
2. Emily (Norton House) -- https://www.nortonhousequilting.com/blogs/news
3. Gail Sheppard -- https://quiltinggail.com/
4. Susan Slaton -- http://wazoonewsbits.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 18
1. Nann Hilyard -- https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com/
2. Jaftex (Jennifer) -- https://scottfortunoff.com/
3. Jan Altomare -- https://www.cocoaquilts.com/  

4. Tricia – http://quiltwithaview.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 19
1. Joy --  https://shout4joy-shouting.blogspot.com/
2. Emily Leachman -- http://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/
3. Vicki S -- www.knitbug2.blogspot.com
4. Rose Mikulski -- https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/
5. QOVF (Lexie) -- https://www.qovf.org/


Wednesday, March 20
1. Nancy -- https://www.graceandpeacequilting.com/
2. Jocelyn -- https://happycottagequilter.blogspot.com/
3. Tracie -- https://joyfullytracie.com/
4. Daryl Perry -- https://patchouli-moon-studio.blogspot.com/ (you are here)
5. Electric Quilt (Diane) -- https://doyoueq.com/blog/

Thursday March 21st:

Grand Prizes~ 

4 awesome grand prizes this year –

1.       Kaffe Fassett Precuts Collection

2.      $100 digital gift certificate for Hancock’s of Paducah

3.      A Big Mystery Box of Quilting Goodies

4.    Download of Electric Quilt 8 (this prize will be chosen by Electric Quilt)

Sponsor Prizes~

3 – Sponsor prizes

1 – Set of Blog Hop patterns from Villa Rosa

Info for the Blog Hop Prizes

Here’s the Important Stuff you need to know:

Everyone is eligible to win prizes. Please note that winners outside the USA will receive a digital set of the 2024 Blog Hop Rose Card pattern collection.

There are several opportunities for you to win prizes during the blog hop:

  1. Individual bloggers may be hosting giveaways on their blogs for you to win. Please visit these bloggers to find out about their giveaways and how to register.
  2. Villa Rosa Designs is giving away a 2024 Blog Hop Card pattern collection on each participating blog.
  3. Sponsor prizes have been donated by our lovely Sponsors, above, and even from some of the bloggers, too! These prizes are divided into 2 different categories —
    • Grand Prize Boxes (of which there are 2) are filled with tons of quilting goodies including books, fabric, precuts, notions, patterns, and more.
    • Individual Prizes (each blogger will select 3 winners on their blog) which may be books, patterns, fat quarter bundles, 5″ squares, 2 1/2″ strips, 10″ squares, notions, and more.

WOW! That’s a lot of prizes!

Please note that to leave a comment on this blog to be registered for prizes, you will need to click on the comments link below. After you click the comments link, you need to leave your own comment. I do MODERATE comments, so please only leave one comment. Duplicate comments will be deleted.  Also: if you are an anonymous or no-reply (meaning you do not have your email registered), make sure that you write your first name and last initial as well as write out your email address in the comment, otherwise you will not be entered to win if I cannot get ahold of you. Thank you & good luck!

NOTE: Comments will close on March 24, so get your comments in before then please. Winners will be chosen the 25th.

I want to take a moment to thank all of our incredible sponsors, who donated all kinds of quilting goodies for you to win. Thank you Sponsors! 

https://hoffmancaliforniafabrics.net

https://modafabrics.com

https://www.ttfabrics.com

http://jaftex.com

https://electricquilt.com

https://www.northcott.com/home.aspx

http://benartex.com

https://www.hancocks-paducah.com

https://foxchapelpublishing.com

https://www.ctpub.com

https://www.pbtex.com

Okay, now all you bunnies get to hopping! Blog Hopping that is, lol!






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Friday, August 19, 2022

Colorful Sky of New Mexico Hot Air Balloon Quilt

Hello all you Hot Air Balloon aficionados. Here is a quilt I designed and wrote a pdf pattern for years ago. I never finished quilting it, so here it is, finally done.
If you would like to make your own, Colorful Sky of New Mexico Hot Air Balloon quilt, you can find it in my PayHip Shop here or on Makerist here



If you make this quilt, please tag me as I would love to see it. You can tag me on Facebook or Instagram: @patchoulimoonstudio or contact me or email me. Thanks for your support, I appreciate it!

I have this actual quilt for sale at the Blue Portal gift shop in Old Town Albuquerque now in time for the annual Balloon Fiesta which is coming the first weekend in October and lasts for 9 days. This is the fiesta's 50th anniversary too! 



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Monday, October 3, 2016

The Road Home Row Along: The Colorful Sky of New Mexico

Marian Pena of  Seams to be Sew asked me if I would like to participate in her row along for this year called, The Road Home. After reading about it, I decided I would like to join in and challenge myself to create a row block. The idea behind the designs was to create a quilt row of something that you would see on your way home. Living here in New Mexico, hot air balloons are a very common site to see in the blue sky above almost daily.  Then of course annually starting the first weekend in October is the International Balloon Fiesta where hundreds of people around the globe come here to fly their balloons during the festival. The sky above Albuquerque is filled with balloons of various sizes, colors and shapes during the 9-day Balloon Fiesta. It's always fun to see what special shapes will be flying each year. So my Road Home row is all about hot air balloons flying over the Sandia Mountain range and the Rio Grande.

Thank you Marian and Amy (of Sew Incredibly Crazy) for all the work in getting this Row Along to happen.




My row pattern was going to be on Craftsy.com, but Craftsy is making all kinds of changes and my pattern store has disappeared on Craftsy! The Craftsy link on my blog to my pattern store is gone too! So since I cannot add my pdf to Craftsy now, please leave a comment if you would like me to email you my pdf row pattern. If you are a no-reply, then I won't have your email and you will not receive the pdf. So if you aren't sure if you are a no-reply, then leave your email in the comment too. If you don't hear from me, then you probably are a no-reply. So please email me if you do not hear from me. *See Update below.

I hope you enjoy making The Colorful Sky of New Mexico row quilt. And please be sure and hop along to all the other blogs that are participating in this row along to download their row patterns too. Combine the rows that you want to into a quilt. Plus there are giveaway prizes too.  Happy row quilting!

*UPDATE: I finally was able to add my pattern on Craftsy. I am charging a small fee for the pattern on Craftsy, so if you would like the free pattern, please email me, or leave a comment and I will email you the pattern for Free. (Leave your email in the comment if you are unsure if you are a no-reply). The pattern will be free here only on my blog through October 15. Once it turns to October 16, then I will not be emailing any more free patterns, but you can purchase the pattern on Craftsy. The time will be on Mountain Time, where I live.

**Update 8/20/19: Craftsy deleted most of my pdf's, so I have this pdf and others on Makerist now. Go here for the "Colorful Sky of New Mexico" pdf.


Two giveaways to enter here are Calibre Art Mat and Anita Goodesign Embroidery.
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I personally wasn't able to hop along and see the other blogs participating, due to having a very difficult time dealing with sciatica pain for more than 6 weeks! Then to top it off my pelvis got out of alignment (an inch off!) and needless to say, the pain has been too much to bear. It's taken me weeks to get this blog posting written, as I cannot sit or stand for more than a few minutes at a time. So my apologies to the other Road Home participants for not commenting on their blogs.
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