Hello everyone, this has been a complex month for me and I was only able to put one block together.  I am a new Quilter/piecer so found the Oak Leaf block  exciting yet a challenge…my biggest lesson was in realizing metric and inches measuring tools are not interchangeable and understanding that Finished means size after Block is set into the project..  Having resolved those issues it was clear Sailing. Sophie Thank You for your Patience...

I meant to share this earlier … and give credit where credit is due 🙂 Johnny Be Good, my big male tabby, helped design this month’s block. At least, he thought it was helping … he decided when the leaf was ready and when it was time for me to stop fiddling with it and go play with...

Hi everyone. Thanks to Sophie’s help I have managed to finally get sorted out. I am from near Melbourne, Australia. We are in spring at the moment but it is very cold & wet this week here but up north in Sydney, about 10 hours away, they are suffering their worst bush fires. We are all making quilts to send up there. Thanks Sophie for putting up my blocks for me. I did enjoy making them. Let’s hope I can manage it myself next...

Even though I already knew in January that I wanted to make a red and white sampler with this year’s lotto blocks … it wasn’t until sometime last week when I decided on which red fabrics and whether I’d go scrappy within each block or not. Once decided, things are going together quickly. I started with some Kona white solid yardage and a set of 10 quarter yards of these indigo reds–9 prints and a red solid–purchased at a...

                            The first two photos above are pics of work in progress on the Lori Holt Row along, featuring a row of Sophie birds from a couple of months ago. (I haven’t done the white sashing so just laid these rows on some white fabric).   At first I was going to have the birds facing the center, but when I began sorting them, I realized they sort of...

This is a quilt from Wendy Vosters’ “Fanciful Quilts to Paper Piece”.  This is kind of what I had in mind for a I-Spy play quilt that you could drive matchbox size cars on.  I would add trees  and some fun places to visit like a park or lake or maybe even an off road RV area with hills you can drive your cars on.  I would make it larger than this one so several kids could play at a time.  Anyone have any other ideas??? ;o) ...

My intent for the block lotto is that quilters may: Try something new, whether it’s a new block pattern, a new-to-them technique or a different color-way Win a set of blocks made by the block lotto community or be inspired by a block to make more of their own Have fun in a no-commitment activity that takes a minimal amount of time ALWAYS send blocks that are the type that they would like to receive and that will be usable by the winners...

Blocks from Debra and Karen via Maree received.

I’m sharing this in-progress photo of Brenda’s Housing Development, with her permission, because I think there are some great setting ideas for our I-spy house blocks here.     Something else you could use these blocks for is a pillow … like the Holiday Lane pillow that I made last year that inspired the idea of this month’s block.  ...

Another wedding is past. Wedding quilt form my daughter who married last year was finished just a bit past their 1st anniversary, but I did have to make a baby quilt for their honeymoon baby, Patrick who is now 5 months old. Life has calmed down a bit and I hope to get back into lotto blocks and making more quilts. I am also trying to get a long arm quilting business started, but I do want to still make time for piecing.

I saw a photo of this quilt on a fabric company’s site and thought … setting idea.  You could add black strips to each side of our blocks and put them together in a straight set for a similar effect to Aardvark Quilts’ Domiciles. If you needed additional blocks, you could make some smaller houses and put them together as 4-patches like the ones in this quilt...

Hi everyone, my name is Julianne and my good quilty pal Kathy in Ohio put a bug in my ear to join the Block Lotto…I am looking forward to making blocks with you all and sometimes winning! Glad to be here!