It was one of those times when I SHOULD have been working on something else, but decided to make a set of sampler blocks from last year’s lotto blocks. I always intended to make a sampler last year, but never got around to it. It hit me a couple days ago, that I could STILL make last year’s blocks. The color isn’t great in these photos, but here they are. The brown fabric behind them is being auditioned. Having made most...
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These are the raw materials for my pink and white sampler quilt. Imagine the background as white fabric, and in that hole in the center, a large scrappy heart (not yet made). I also am one sampler block short, but I have a cup cut out and just need to put it together. I’m also thinking hearts in the outer...
Read MoreI don’t have any pictures to show, but I have made a pink and white version of each of the 2012 blocks, with the intent that they will be the outer ring of a sampler quilt, with the inner border being made of the pink and white “terms of endearment” blocks I won in 2011. I’m thinking the center will be either a large scrappy heart (using the pink fabrics against white) or 4 hearts with their points together at the...
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I don’t know how many of you are making (or maybe even finished) your own sampler quilt from lotto blocks … or if you considering making a sample from this year’s rectangular blocks. I thought it might be nice to have a place to talk about our sampler ideas and support one another and so I have created the new category My Sampler. Or maybe *I* just need some support to finish a couple Block Lotto samplers in progress and help...
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