This table topper, made by Nicole P, popped up on Flickr and even without the credit in the description (thanks, Nicole), I knew I recognized those Bead-on-a-String blocks.       I am sharing it here with Nicole’s...

Not the best picture but this is the quilt top I just finished for my niece’s baby shower.  Fun kid panels with all of your lovely blocks surrounding them.  Thank you to everyone who helped make this...

We went up north and did a drive along the north shore on Lake Superior. We stopped at Split Rock lighthouse. If you look closely you can see it in the background. The oak leaves I won last fall went along. Next stop for it is the...

The Sunrise block was a challenge BUT was so much fun when I started different color combinations for my sampler.  However, when I began to lay out the new bold colors with the other MMQAL blocks, I found some were TOO colorful for the sampler. So, I changed my mind, AGAIN.  Some of the  colorful blocks are now placemats. By the way,  when I pieced the border, the last and first ray were inconsistent in size. Besides an inaccurate 1/4 inch...

I will not have a rising sun block, but another BL block is getting attention. I contributed the quilt I made from the crossed stars blocks to the silent auction at the American Library Association annual conference.  The bid is over $300. Thus far bids for all nine quilts are over $3000!...

It has been hard to get pictures. I have a lot of block lotto related quilt tops done, but this is the only one I have a picture of right now. I wish I would have done the same thing to the orange corner stone as I did with the blue ones…adding a triangle to the corners of the block. Live and...

In December 2012 we made star crossed blocks in light/med/dark fabrics. I loved this block then and looked for an opportunity to make a quilt using it. My chance came when I designed and made this quilt as a weddning gift. Mine was much less scrappy and had a very limited color palette (as chosen by the bride). Full details of the quilt and a few progress posts can be seen...

Remember those small 5 1/4 inch Star Chain blocks I posted last week? Here’s what became of them. I’ve always thought that mini-lotto blocks would make cute pincushions, though I was thinking of something flatter, with just a matching back sewn onto a block.  But I’ve always loved these chicken pincushions whenever they’ve crossed my path and I saw a bunch for sale in a booth at a local sewing/quilting/crafting show a...

Hi everyone, Here is my completed quilt (March 2014) which took its inspiration from the Block Lotto Violet block (2011) but with the light background. All flowers are from different fabrics, with a mix of yellow centres using the 8 inch layout. This was my first attempt with free motion quilting (ie darning foot), be it only for outlining the flower centres. Flowers were outlined using variegated thread (purple tones) using walking foot,...

Hi everyone, Here is a baby quilt that I completed early this month in time (just) for an international PHD student with our research group. Her baby girl was born 7 May. Thank you to all the Block Lotto contributors for these Jacob Ladder blocks, they look fantastic together. Best wishes...

It is Bloggers Quilt Festival time again & I entered a quilt that is a variation on a block we lottoed in ?2011? so Sophie suggested I do a write-up for here.  I call the block 8:56 (4 to 9), but in Block Lotto-land it is D4P or disappearing 4-patch. For this quilt I sized up the blocks (6.5″ strips to make the 4-patches 12.5″ then sliced & flipped for a final block size of 11″.5 unfinished/11″ finished).  Each...

If you have been around a while, you probably remember the Violet blocks we made in August, 2011.  You might remember that I was using Google Docs around that time, too, as a place to store Block Patterns.  The Violet block was a popular one, both for the lotto and for lots of other quilters, especially after the block and projects made from it started popping up on Pinterest.   Because the pattern was updated, I removed the old sneak-peek...