I have just finished this throw made up from the blocks I won in June.  I have backed it with purple fleece and it is a lovely and cosy – so much so that my husband has bagged it!  I’m really pleased as it is the first quilt he has actually wanted.  Maybe the fact that we have snow and no central heating at the moment has something to do with it……..   Edited by Sophie to add Pat’s name and a cropped photo for...

I see that I am a winner of Scrappy Trips Blocks!  Thank you all!  I look forward to using the blocks. I just completed a quilt top for my DS  for Christmas….Scrappy Trips with a single green fabric for the diagonal since he said his favorite color is green.  The same fabric will be used for backing and binding.  As I worked on this I had the thought I could work with this same block for a longtime and get different results depending on...

….are now a flimsy!  This will be a present for my sister once I get it quilted....

I had to check back in the archives to see when these Blocks came to my house.  I found the answer HERE. I thought it was April, but the posting was March and I was a newbie WINNER. Anyway.  It is all quilted and I wanted to post it with a picture of the backing.  I found the pretty red fabric that I used for the Border and Backing. I quilted it from the back and it took me a while to finish…there’s a lot stitching in there. It is...

In January 2010, the block lotto made tic-tac-toe blocks with bright fabrics in a white background. In February, I met up with Julie when she visited London and she gave me a handful (three or four – I can’t remember for sure) of these tic-tac-toe blocks, which are made the same way, but with the white crossing and the brights as background. The rest, as they say, is history. The quilt is now finished (except see I haven’t...

Well, here I go! Last night at the Quilting PJ party, I stitched up my Block Lotto winnings! I had a total of 48 blocks and they’re all here!!(I just love a quilt that I can complete in one evening… don’t you!?) Do you see your block? Thanks to all who participated in the...

It’s taken a while, but I have finished 2 more quilts, which means that every tic-tac-toe block I won last year has now made its way into a quilt. First, is my wacky setting, for the wacky blocks.  I added scrappy white sashing around/between each block to make a big square, and then cut it just like we did the small blocks originally, and added the blue sashing.  The back was pieced with the rest of the blue, and 6 more blocks. Blocks...

Hello, These are my nine blocks for the Oct Block Lotto. I had so much fun making all of them. Also look at what the curved rails inspired me to do for my granddaughter. Have fun sewing,...

A couple of years ago my partner’s great-aunt died. He was close to her as a child and remembered fondly the bright floral print polyester blouses she always wore. When he helped his mother clean out his aunt’s home, he asked if he could keep the blouses. So he brought home this pile of shiny floral polyester blouses and asked me to make something out of them. I thought he was nuts at the time and I put the clothes in a bag in a...

I thought I would work on the October sneak peek blocks, but on Sunday my husband mentioned a girl who works with my daughter Katy,  whom he had been visiting with a while back and discovered that she had no memories of birthday gifts growing up, except one time she was given a comb.  She has had a hard life.  Anyway he thought it would be nice to give her a gift for her birthday, which is tomorrow.  My thoughts immediately went to a quilt as a...

A gift for a colleague having a baby – her last day is tomorrow – the blocks are from a block lotto win back in May 2008. I knew they’d come in handy some day! Detail of the quilting can be seen over on my...

This is the final resting place for the “Polka Dot”Quilt. I won the blocks in the Block Lotto in Dec. 2009. I have posted pics before of this quilt…………….. but I have always wanted to show it….. in final – on my sister’s bed. The URL is my webshots page which shows the entire progress while constructing. Take a look/see. We LOVE the Block Lotto! Yes we...