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A table runner to keep the bird placemats company! The birds are all headed for the birdhouse – will they all fit in it? Did I mention I’m on vacation this week? Actually a staycation, so I’ve had time to play and use some of the bird blocks!...

Here is the first thing I’ve made from the birds who have come to live in Las Vegas – placemats. My husband loves blue so I used a Moda Marbles blue for the borders. The green birds are his placemat and the pink ones are mine. Next is a table...

I don’t know why I started thinking of this quilt as a “picnic” quilt–the landscape here rarely includes any sort of green lawn on which to spread out a quilt and enjoy a meal … but if I ever find myself living in such a place again, I’ll be ready.   Coincidentally, this is my back “yard” and the view from the studio space in my house. Like the scrappy 16-patch blocks we made for the Block Lotto in...

I did not intend on getting this started and finished so quickly, but I did. I’ve done 2 posts on my blog here and here if you want to read about my trials and...

I sent my bird blocks to Gail and Kate on Monday … hope they arrive at their new homes soon! Looking forward to seeing what the winners create.   I needed a couple of extra blocks to go with some orphan heart blocks and bird blocks were perfect. This comfort quilt will be going to kids at camp this...

I created this adorable small quilt over the weekend with the blocks I’d made for the Block Lotto drawing to send away for a secret swap I’d entered.  Don’t you love it? But don’t worry—I made 3 new bird blocks to send on to Gail, the lucky winner. I’m gong to put them in the mail today....

My quilt, Finding My Way, is done and already doing duty on the chaise in my studio on a surprisingly cold day in May–it was 30 degrees outside this morning. This quilt began as a set of scrappy flying geese units from an exchange.  The setting is similar to the Jeweled Geese blocks we made in March 2009, which was inspired by an antique quilt in the Sherburne Museum collection made from silk ties. (You can see a photo of the silk tie quilt...

I am the comfort quilt coordinator for our guild, and we put together fabric kits for our members to make charity quilts. I am always on the lookout for simple patterns which utilize the donated fabric we receive. One of my favorite sources of fabric are the sales samples which a local fabric representative gives us at the end of each season. Using the disappearing four patch pattern from the March, 2011 block lotto, and starting with forty...

Finally finished the top with the blocks I won in Aug 2012. Love the colors!!!! Wanted to make it alittle bigger,so I added several borders (adapted from the book, “Borders” by Judy Laquidara) and it ended up being 105xo98,approx. Didn’t think it was going to be that big, but I LOVE it!!! Now to get to the quilting!!! (I probably will have someone do it on their longarm.) Hope I did your blocks proud!!! Also hoping to be found...

This weekend,  I was thinking about how often I think of past lotto blocks as design elements and how, without any effort, they turn up in my quilts and quilty projects. At the time, I was making 16-patch blocks to use as a border for a quilt made from a scrappy version of the flying geese variation we made a few years ago. It turned out, I hated the idea once I’d made the blocks … and am turning them into a picnic quilt (Blogged...

Here are my Tall Flys. Funny how these colors lend themselves to fruit and veggies. Remember Helen did tomatoes. Someone commented on how prolific I was. In the manner of full disclosure I have to admit that after 30 plus years of quilting I often make what I call “personal quilts” in the size of 54×60 or 64 x 70 rather than full size quilts. Also, please note the pieced backing. I am on a fabric “diet” and am using...