Robin, The first upload seemed to work but then my page would not post. I got out of Block Lotto and go in again as the publishing attempt continued to be trying to upload. This time I went to the media page and clicked on the photo I had loaded from my iPhoto.  I will try to post again and see what happens this time.  Thanks for your help with this. :)Carol  ...

 Thank you Robin, It seems to have worked.  I dragged your email photo into my iPhoto and then uploaded to post as I did in the past and it appears here so I think that this will work. Thank you so much.  So does this mean that if I email a photo to myself I can resize it to small and upload it or do I need to send it to you first. Thanks for your help....

Winner will be chosen tomorrow (2/28) at noon CST.

I am not nearly as busy as Sophie and do not mind resizing your photo(s). Send them to 9lizards at gmail.com and I will email them back to you for posting.

This morning I deleted more than 100 FAILED photo uploads from the website. When I could get some information on the file and could see how large they are (and who uploaded them), THEY ARE HUUUUGE!  This isn’t a problem a few of you are having, it’s a problem MANY of you are having. A file size in the HUNDREDS of KILOBYTE (KB) is plenty large enough.  A file size in MULTIPLE MEGABYTES (MB) is many, many times larger than it needs to...

Hi, I can take a month but not May or June.  It’s the least I can do for all the fun I’ve had with Block Lotto. Best, Jude

What if you put a 6 inch quilt block in place of the colored square?  For this example, I used a 6 inch sawtooth star. I thought this could make for an interesting setting and a way to make a bigger quilt from smaller blocks … what do you think? I planned to make my own blocks this weekend, but instead, after I got home on Friday, I found myself coming down with the flu … and barely got out of bed for the past three days.  (I am...

This layout has 41 blocks set on point with 2 inch sashing and 5 1/1 inch borders.  It results in a quilt that measures 89 inches...

Honestly everyone, before I selected the block and created the block directions for this month, I LOOKED for a commercial or other pattern for our block after I found it on Pinterest and came up empty–probably because it had been referred to by a different name: I’ve Been Framed. Tonight, Glen sent me email identifying the commercial pattern based on a larger block (18 inch squares) like ours and asked about permissions. You can find/buy...

This month’s block came from a photo of a portion of a quilt I found on Pinterest.  I tracked it down to 2012 post on a quilters’ bulletin board called mqresources and to it’s maker, Donna Ferrill James (aka donna in BC).  She called her quilt, Modern Reds. And here’s a closer look at the fabulous quilting....

If you are still considering whether or not you could lead the Block Lotto for a month, here’s some additional information and help that might help you get off that fence. You can choose ANY block and almost any size you’d like (between 6 and 12 inches). If can be a traditional block, a modern block, an appliqué block, an original block … you could even choose a block that we’ve made in the past for the Block Lotto–those...

I have already shared most of the responses to the “what would you like to see …” question in Something to Think About. Here are your responses to the other four questions:    ...