If you made blocks in January, you should have email from me with winners names and addresses and a chart which shows how many of your blocks you should send to which winners. If you didn’t receive the email or did and found errors, please let me know ASAP. Please be sure to mail to the correct winners.  We have winners on three continents this month and if you accidentally send it to the wrong person, you envelope could end up making an...

The block for January was a 7-inch by 14-inch (finished size) Double Chevron block, made from 2 fabrics, white plus a purple, gray or brown of the quilter’s choice. We made a total of 256 blocks which were won by 7 lucky quilters: Madison, Jude, Marie, Karen, Peggy, Shelley and Kate. Guidelines for the January 2014 Block Lotto are here: 2014 Begins with Double Chevrons The maximum number of blocks you can make and enter for chances in the...

I’ve sent the list of names to Kathie who will be using the random site to generate our SEVEN WINNERS soon. 256 blocks means that one person will win a set of 40 and the other six winners will end up with 36 Double Chevron blocks. (We made 7 quilts this month, can you believe it?)

Look what I found in my email this morning–a very pretty violet quilt.   Here’s what Sara Karow had to say about the quilt that she and her friends in the Houston Public Library LMS Quilt Guild (Mary Stanton, Brinda Brantley, & Gail Ibarra) made for a friend. We created this cheery 54″ quilt as a retirement gift and presented it today.  The recipient was thrilled. We used a combination of 6″, 9″, and 12″...

The deadline for posting photos of your blocks to be entered in the January drawing is less than 24 hours away: 12:00 noon (on the US east coast). Kathie has volunteered to generate the list of winners this month. 249 Double Chevron blocks have been made and posted so far which translates to 7 winners.  My target set size is 36 blocks, with all winners receiving at least 24. I have received photos of the February blocks made by sneak peelers...

Rafflecopter generated our winner and it is: ANDREW! Andrew, please check your email and get back to me ASAP. Since you haven’t made blocks in a while, I’ll need your address so I can send you Elizabeth’s beautiful hand-dyed fabrics. They are all packed and ready to make the trip over the border to Texas … assuming you are still in Texas.

Earlier this month, on impulse, I added the Block Lotto to the Grow Your Blog party.  If you have come here as a result, welcome to the Block Lotto.  If you are a regular here or have recently joined, I’ve updated some of the general information and you may find something of interest here, too. A simple description of the Block Lotto is that of a home for a monthly online activity for quilters. We make blocks from a specific pattern...

If you are one of the 47 quilters who have already made and posted photos of 210 Double Chevron blocks, you should have received email from me with a sneak peek at the information and block pattern for the February Block Lotto. If you didn’t receive email from me, but have made blocks, first check your spam folder because email to 47 people may look like spam to your email program, then check the at-a-glance page to make sure I...

Here’s a quick reminder (and a little fabric eye candy) about deadlines coming up this month: Friday, January 24 at NOON (on the US east coast) is the deadline for posting your Double Chevron blocks in time for receiving the sneak peek at the February block. Saturday, January 25  at 8AM (on the US east coast) is the deadline for entering the giveaway for Elizabeth’s beautiful hand-dyed fabrics.   I picked up the actual fabrics the...

It’s not very interesting … yet, but here are my double chevron blocks for the two Mod-mod samplers I’ll be making.   The six gray blocks will be used in a Full/Queen size quilt, combined with more gray, aqua, pink and yellow fabrics. The blue chevrons (with light blue backgrounds) will be used in a throw, combined with fabrics in whatever colors are next in the rainbow scrap challenge.  If you remember the scrappy blue...

This post contains the photos and links for the blocks we made in 2014 and the Mod-Mod Sampler quilt.

I have created a random-ish layout using this year’s blocks in a straight setting with no sashing or borders, using the lotto blocks to build 21-inch square modules. Because of the modular approach and the modern look of our geometric blocks this year, I’m calling this effort the Mod-Mod Quilt-along. You could choose to make a quilt in one of six sizes: Small (42-inch square) – 4 modules arranged 2-by-2 Crib (42 by 63-inch...