Weekend Update – July 5-8
I think I may be spending my weekend recovering from my Fourth of July. This is a photo from Pancakes on the Plaza in Santa Fe, a yearly July 4 tradition and fundraiser. Although it seemed a lot less crowded than last year, thee were still plenty of people eating pancakes everywhere. And after some much needed recent rain, everything looked so lush and green.
How about you?
Share a recent link from your blog below.
NEXT weekend will be the designated topic weekend … I’ll have more details on this month’s theme in the next day or two–until then, anything goes.
Hi! I’m a Newbie!
Hi everyone, my name is Julianne and my good quilty pal Kathy in Ohio put a bug in my ear to join the Block Lotto…I am looking forward to making blocks with you all and sometimes winning! Glad to be here!
Tall Ship
We have rain and wind. The sun is keeping away. I managed two in the last minutes.
Weekend Update – June 21-24
Summer is officially here in the northern hemisphere.
This sad looking coneflower from my yard is showing the effects of too much wind and not enough rain around here, but it still says summer to me.
Assuming the winds stay at a manageable level, I may celebrate summer this weekend by taking some paint, dyes and printing supplies out to the patio to play. How about you?
Join others in the block lotto community and share a link from your blog below. There is no designated theme this week, so feel free to add a link to any post from your blog (or post a message here in the block lotto community category, if you don’t have one) and share a slice of your life.
Share Something UN-Quilty – Weekend Update Linky Party
If you have ever made lotto blocks and have a blog I know about, I follow you. I love seeing everyone’s quilt projects … and also learning about whatever else interests you or is going on in your life. It’s for that reason that the topic for this weekend’s linky party is UN-quilty.
Please join the party by adding a link to a recent blog post of yours about something besides quilting. Johnny the cat dares you. (Actually he was daring me to make him come inside before he was finished with his morning patrol from the deck)
Do you blog about your interests beyond quilting … Your kids? Your grand kids? Your pets? Your friends? Your travels? Cooking? Gardening? Knitting? Painting? Needlework?
I actually know that some of you do and I hope you’ll share a link … and maybe a good new recipe. 🙂
Design Ideas from Another Sailboat Quilt
I promise. This will be the last one … unless I come across something else that I find interesting enough that I can’t resist sharing 🙂
This Baby Sailboat quilt came from a Leisure Arts Publication, Quick Method – Classic Blue Quilts. It’s quite old, but I found some copies online on eBay … and I wouldn’t be surprised to still see it on shelves at Jo-Ann.
I think there’s a couple of interesting design elements in this quilt.
- The strip of background fabric at the bottom of the sailboat blocks gives them some sea to float upon.
- The quilting design. I wasn’t sure if you could see it in the photo of the quilt–it’s really what caught my eye–so I included the diagram from the pattern.
Both these ideas could be used with our blocks and a similar tall ships quilt could be made from them.
Sailboat Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum
Lately, whenever I am looking for something else, I see sail boat/tall ships quilts. These two are from the book Quilts: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum.
The sailboat block in both quilts is the same (a shorter version of this month’s lotto block) which makes the contrast between the two quilts even more interesting–one seems to lean toward the Gees Bend style, the other feels purely Amish.
Sailboats quilt by Alean Pearson, Oxford Mississipi, 1985
Sailboats Quilt by Amanda Lehman, Topeka Indiana, 1955-1965
Our winners this month will win some basic blocks that they can take in any direction they choose by adding to them.
Sailboats – a Setting Idea
I was flipping through a book looking for something else, when I saw this quilt … and had to share.
These blocks are wider than ours, but similar enough that I think you can easily see how effective this quilt design is … with plain sashing and borders. If you had a set of our lotto blocks, you could choose whether to go white or blue for that sashing and borders. I think the reverse blocks (whichever way) would give this classic a modern graphic look.
The photo above is page 282 from this book, The Encyclopedia of Classic Quilt Patterns. The link will take you to Amazon. I’ve owned this for a while, but noticed this week that it’s still on the shelves at the little JoAnn near me.
I didn’t find what I was looking for in it today, but it is a nice book full of quilts made from traditional patterns.
Weekend Update – June 7-10
If only our weekends really were 4 days long, like the window for sharing a link as part of Weekend Update, right?
Although the designated topic weekend is NEXT week, I probably will be sharing some thing un-quilty, because lately the quilting isn’t going so well. I finally have a functional Bernina again and thought I’d finish the wonky shoo fly doll quilt I was working on at the beginning of the year.
First I ran out of thread. I was using “lace white” and didn’t have any more, but the plain ole “white” of the same brand seemed close enough and I thought I’d be able to continue.
My cat, Grace Hopper, had other ideas and let me know exactly when she thought it was time for me to stop quilting and go upstairs for the night. (Coincidentally, she is delivering that same message now, curled up in my sewing chair so there’s no chance I can start using it.)
Add a link from your blog below (or add a post here in the category weekend update.) Have you been quilty or un-quilty this week? I plan to do some gardening and hope that there’s been enough rain to loosen things up abit. And, with some luck, I’ll finally finish this little doll quilt and be back to share a photo here for show and tell.
The Mailing Info has been Sent
If you made blocks in May, you should have received an email message from me with the mailing info for the Trio of Geese Blocks.
Please take a quick look to make sure that the number of block I have attributed to you is correct and let me know ASAP if you find an error.
Winners, please also check that your name and address at the top of the page are correct–even though you all individually confirmed your addresses with me. Mistakes can happen (and have happened in the past).
June is a busy month for many of us; please mail out your May blocks to the winners before they are forgotten in this busy month.
Thanks, as always, for continuing to make the Block Lotto a success.