Boy oh boy its been like Christmas all month long!  I have so many beautiful stripe blocks to work with now!  Thank you to everyone!

Hello! I am just rejoining block lotto and Sophie suggested I introduce myself.  I am Marie Joerger and you can catch my blog @ Marie’s Creative Space to see what I have going on. Here are my first 3 Chevrons I have 3 more sewn into HST and hope to have those together and up in time!! I am also looking forward to the Mod-Mod-Quilt-Along! What a great idea! Marie  ...

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...

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...

I’ve been focusing on finishing my “row along” quilt to enter in the Dallas Quilt show, so haven’t let myself play with the tall red star blocks that I won in the fall, but this weekend I’m going to a quilt retreat so may have time to play with them.  So I got them out tonight and laid them out in columns on some dark green fabric I have in mind for vertical sashing.  The light doesn’t do them justice, but my...

Sophie asked for color combination suggestions. I really liked the palette suggested by the “To Boston With Love” project. Although it’s not in the screenshot, white was also used in people’s combinations. I guess this is a modern...

Elizabeth joined the Block Lotto last summer.  She recently offered a set of her beautiful hand dyed fabrics for a give-away.  Thank you, Elizabeth! These are 6 1/2 by 30-inch pieces–about 3 yards of them.  They would make lovely Double Chevron blocks or just about anything else you wanted to make from them. The base fabric she uses is a tightly woven cotton, very much like batik fabric.  The fabrics you win will be similar to these. Elizabeth...

4 in the mail from Norway to Mary Jane today.

Do you make quilting resolutions?  Have a bucket list of quilts to make or techniques to learn?  Set specific quilting goals? Do you have a list of quilts you plan to make in 2014 or UFOs you plan to finish? Blog about your quilting plans for 2014 and share a link here. If, like me, you’re not one for lists and schedules when it comes to quilting, join me in challenging yourself to set ONE quilting goal for...

I have a lovely jelly roll I got from Tuesday Morning and a nice coordinating batik that I realized would be beautiful made with the December block.  The strips are 2.5 inches and I don’t want to cut them down. By my calculations this gives me a block that finishes with a 12 inch finished height (12.5 unfinished). I suck at figuring out proportions, so would welcome suggestions on what width to cut. It seems like it should be 9.5  for a...

Is it OK to submit more than 9 blocks in the Orphans draw?