On Monday I received the first envelope from Barb P, with the second following yesterday from Ginny, thank-you both.  For the next two weeks I am swamped at work (and working at home), so I am going to keep them unopened until all have arrived, otherwise they will distract me!   Karen in Cape Town.

The last two blossoms arrived today making a full bunch of violets.  Thank you Mary, and again to everyone for their participation!  I think I might add varying width  strips of green between each block. Here they are add all together, but I have since taking the photo, moved some around.  They are all beautiful individually and...

My four Butterflies for Elizabeth were taken to the post office this morning… a bit late this month, sorry, but it was the first time I could co-ordinate a stop at the post office when it is open.  Might take a week or two to arrive…. Karen N in a wet Cape Town (our city dams are only about 30% full, the lowest level on record, so the rain is very, very welcome!)

Three lovely violets from Elizabeth in Grand Rapids were in my post box today….and we seldom get mail on a Tuesday!  Karen in Cape Town.

Three pairs of leaves for the draw. I made nine more blocks but, until I realised that I wasn’t checking that the half square triangles were sewn to the right size, they were all ended up just a bit too small.  I know that Sophie allows a tolerance with the block sizes, but I am happy to put them in my orphan box!  Once that issue was overcome I started working on the OMMS blocks. ….what a pleasure!  Karen...

I started to write this post at the end of April, but can’t remember why I didn’t publish it!  These are my butterflies that I added to the draw and four with sky backgrounds for OMMS,  together with the pile of removed papers!  I do prefer my darker backgrounds and the scrap-striped wings.  I now have a reasonable selection of paler neutrals and whites, but this was a gap in my fabric collection before joining in with Block Lotto...

In the mail this week were envelopes from Marsha, Glenn,  Lori, Cathy, Charlene and Sophie containing lovely violets, thank-you.

Just one envelope this week, from Marsha with three violet blocks.  Here are all the blocks so far!...

Yesterdays mail brought violets from Mary S and Nann, and today a whole slew filled my post box, from Rachel, Barbara S, Julie W, Laurie F, Laura R and the Jennings in Clevleand  all with beautiful violets … thank-you!

On Monday the first violet blocks arrived, from New Zealand.  Thank you Maree, they are lovely.  

My four butterflys for donation.   I didn’t really enjoy making these, as I challenged myself to get the grain running straight, where I would normally just cut and sew and not worry about it.  Still need to remove the foundations.   I used cotton paper as the foundation, and it stood up far better than the ordinary printer paper with the number of times some seams were ripped out and resewn. I love reading the humourous puns and comments...

My four violets for the March draw.  Keeping my fingers crossed this month, as purple is one of my favourite colours.  Karen N, Cape...