I have heard from three of our winners–Christa, Lori and Kathy, but need to hear from all five winners before I can create the mailing information and send it out to the block-makers. I will be going out of town this weekend and would really like to be able to send out the mailing info tomorrow before I disappear, but need a response to my email from Cyndi and Rho … and so I’m a little more anxious to hear from the winners than...

In Janaury, 40 quilters made 238 Tall Shoo Fly blocks, enough for five winners–congratulations again to: Cyndi Rho Lori (a newbie!) Christi Kathy (links go to blogs, if I know you have one) Three new quilters joined us in January.  Eileen, Karen and Lori (a winner!), I hope you had fun and will continue to play along. The List Blocks entered into Drawing Ana – 2 Barbara – 1 Caroline – 9 Christa – 1 ***WINNER*** Christina – 6 Cyndi – 7...

Sophie entrusted me with the responsibility of selecting the winners of the January blocks.  There were 234 blocks created, with 193 being entries in the drawing. (The others were donated or beyond the 9-per-player quota…..they were such fun blocks to make — it was hard to stop at 9.) Drum roll, please!  The random number generator turned up five numbers that belonged to Cyndi, Rho, Lori, and Christa, who have each won 49 blocks,...

Email with the February Sneak Peek information has been sent.  If you have made a posted blocks this month, you should have received a message from me. If not: Make sure I have you on the list on the At-a-Glance page–even if you did a receive the sneak peek, it’s a good idea to check that the number of blocks I have attributed to you. Double check that your mail application didn’t put my message in your SPAM...

The Sneak Peek for the February block will go out sometime later today. If you happened to see my blog post on Sophie Junction yesterday, then you’ll understand why I overslept this morning and am now scrambling to get things together to take my dead Bernina to the nearest dealer (that is over an hour away). It’s a same-day appointment, so I’ll be hanging out and waiting to find out if it can be fixed (and if I can afford to...

This month, 33 quilters made 142 star-crossed blocks. In December, we were joined by one newbie, Kathleen.  Welcome again, Kathleen–I hope you had fun and will stick around. And congratulations, again, to our winners: Nann, Margaret and Julie W (floribunda). For the record, here are the blocks made and who made them: Blocks entered into Drawing Andi – 3 Barbara B – 5 Barbara S – 1 Belinda – 3 Christa – 1 Dawna – 1 Erin – 3 Gail – 3 Helen – 1 Jo...

I was honored to be asked by Sophie to conduct the drawing for this month’s winners.  A total of 139 blocks were made; 17 are donations, leaving 122 “chances” for 28 people. The three winners are: 1st – Nann, who will get 48 blocks 2nd – Margaret, who will get 48 blocks 3rd – Julie W, who will get 43 blocks.   Sophie will send out mailing instructions later. Congrats to the...

If you have made blocks this month … or any month in 2012, you should have received email from me with my thanks for participating in the Block Lotto this year and the sneak peek for January. In 2013, we’ll be making 6 x 9 inch (finished size) rectangular blocks.  We’ve ventured into rectangles a few times in the Block Lotto’s past, including string hearts, liberated baskets and 3-Patch rectangles.  If you liked those...

If you made blocks in November, you should have email from me (two messages in fact, because I forgot to attach the file the first time around) with information about where to send your mug blocks. If you made blocks and didn’t receive email from me, let me know ASAP. If you see an error in the mailing info sheet, let me know ASAP.

The block for December is a 9-inch (finished size) Star-Crossed block in Quilter’s choice of three fabrics: one LIGHT, one MEDIUM Print-friendly (PDF format) directions for making the block are here: Star-Crossed Block I wanted to add another star block to our 2012 lotto blocks and liked the idea that this one had the same sort of cross at the hot-crossed 9-patch blocks we made in April. Some History I felt sure this must be a traditional...

In November, 29 quilters made 109 mug blocks, won by Ginny and Terry. Here’s the list of quilters and blocks: Blocks entered into Drawing Andra – 4 Barbara – 1 Christa – 1 Cyndi – 3 Dawna – 5 Ellie – 1 Erin – 4 Ginny – 9 Helen – 1 Janet – 4 Kate – 3 Kathy – 7 Krista – 5 Laura – 3 Linda – 4 Maree – 9 Margaret – 3 Maria – 4 Marybeth – 1 Nann – 1 Rachel – 8 Rho – 4 Shauna – 2 Terry – 4 Toni – 4 Vicki – 1 Blocks donated (no chances in...

random.org says … Which means our winners are #27 – Ginny will receive 56 blocks #91 – Terry  will receive 53 blocks Congratulations to both of...