Some of the Block Lotto participants joined in a round robin project earlier this year that was a lot of fun and resulted in wonderful finished quilts.  I’m organizing the 2013 version and recruiting for a project to start in January. You can check out the “reveal” of the previous quilts at the Cotton Robin blog, and leave a comment there if you’d like to join in the fun! Thanks,   Julie AKA...

Here’s a setting idea for this month’s block. I can imagine using Tonya’s letters to go with the wonky mugs. http://kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com/2012/11/design-wall-monday-november-12th.html

I have updated the show & tell posts so that the images are displayed on all the Gallery pages. It was like taking a walk down Block Lotto memory lane.  FYI, if there were in-progress posts for the same quilt, I only included the most recent in the Gallery. If you decide to take a walk down memory lane and check out the eye candy in the 125 Gallery posts and notice that you never posted a photo of your finished quilt … it’s...

Since I didn’t win any of the wonderful October Split Star blocks, I decided to console myself with making a little quilt (12.5″ x 12.5″) from the half square triangle  scraps and strips of leftover fabric from the blocks I...

First let me say that I won the african violet swap last year & I have done nothing with the blocks & I am unashamed!  I WANTED them so bad I could taste them & periodically I spread them out on the floor & roll around in them.  So I guess I have not exactly done nothing. But this post is for anyone who wished they had won, particularly if instead of african violets the lotto had been poinsettias.  Confused?  Excellent. Over on...

….. before cutting all your fabric! I am not happy with how my blocks are turning out.  Why do 1/2 square triangles and flying geese always turn out crooked for me…unless I sew large and trim to size?  I’m not sure if I will have any that are up to par for the lotto.  Maybe I’ll try again later in the month.

Love the blocks and they will make up into a lovely quilt but in spite of having a huge stash I have absolutely NO solids – lots of tone on tones but no solids – very sad. So I will wait until next month. Enjoy making them

No better way to spend a rainy Labor Day then in the sewing hub while my son napped. This will be my only block for September but maybe it will bring me luck. I learned so much from this block. The roses in my front yard bloomed (this weekend) and inspired this block. I promise the background is sky blue…it was a rainy day so I couldn’t take the photo outside. I will try and take a better picture tomorrow. Sophie, thank you for...

I’m going to attempt to capture the suggestions and explanations that I know will be coming in this post. If at first you don’t like the block … I already shared this thought, from Christa, with the sneak peekers–it’s more about attitude than technique, but something to consider if you shared her first impression of the block: First when I got the sneak peek I thought “don’t really like it” but when I made it, I fell in...

Here are the 2 Cool Ladders I made for the August drawing.  Enjoyed working with these colors during the heat we’ve all had this time of...

Anyone else having problems getting their blocks to lay flat. I’ve pressed the life out of them but they still puff out in many wrong places.   Any suggestions?   thanks. //

Tried three. Ruined three. Cannot get them flat even though I ironed the life out of them. Sorry about that. Must be a secret I don’t know. Will wait until August. Posted three June blocks to Laura