If you have made and posted blocks this month, you should have email from me with the sneak peek at the May block. Be sure to let me know ASAP if you should have received it, but didn’t … or vice-versa. It’s also a good time to double check that the information I have for you and your blocks is correct on the At-a-Glance page....

If you made and posted Violet blocks last month, you should have fresh email from me with the mailing info. Please take a moment to make sure the information I have for YOU is correct and let me know if you find an error.  I confess to being a little sleep deprived … which makes me less detail-oriented than I should be, but wanted to get the chart out to all of you so that those 222 violets we made can start flying to the winners. If you...

This is no April Fool’s joke.  Because it is sometimes easiest to realize the design in your head by creating a foundation pattern and paper-piecing it,  It is a good tool to have in your quilting repetoire. In April, we will be making a 6-inch (finished size) Butterfly block. Susan made this one. The block is made from four fabrics: 2 oranges for the wings, a black body and light blue or aqua for the sky (background). See complete fabric...

In April, we made a popular block from the Block Lotto’s past: Violet. Barb P made these four Violet blocks. In total, 46 quilters made 222 Violet blocks which were won by Karen N, Glenna (a first time winner!), Kristin, Erin and Karen L (a newbie!) Complete guidelines for April are in this post:   First Flowers of Spring – Violets Redux   The tag for ALL blog posts about this  block: violet   This post is the public...

We ended the month with 222 Violet blocks–enough for five winners. 20 of those were donated without chances, which left 202 names in the drawing. The first two winners will receive a set of 48 blocks; the other three will receive 42 beautiful violets. The result from the integer generator from Random.org:       Two of the numbers were assigned to the same person, so a replacement was selected:     All these lovely...

It’s that time again … if you are one of the 35 quilters who have made 161 violet blocks (so far!) then you should have just received email from me with the sneak peek at the April blocks. This is also that time of the month when I ask you to click over to the At-a-Glance page to make sure you are on the list, if you made blocks, that the number of blocks for you is correct and you’re in the right category (in the drawing or...

If you made and posted Snail’s Trail blocks in February, you should have received email from me this morning with the information you need to send them to one or more of our winners. If you should have received the mailing info, but didn’t receive the email from me, please let me know ASAP.  If you received the mailing info and found an error, also please let me know ASAP. I get this info to you as quickly as I can in hopes that you...

The Violet quilt block is an original design, created for the Block Lotto in 2011, made popular through social media–thank you Pinterest–and updated in a different color way and size for this month. We will be making a 6-inch (finished size) block–like all the lotto blocks this year. The block is made from three fabrics: Background, Flower and Center. See guidelines below. You may make a maximum of 9 blocks for chances in the drawing at the end...

Our year of 6 inch (finished size) blocks continued in march with another traditional block, Snail’s Trail. Complete guidelines and links to the block pattern are in this post: Chocolate Covered Snails (Trails) in February   166 blocks were made by 39 quilters and won by Julianne, Jude and Kathleen. Tag for ALL blog posts about this month’s block: snails trail This post is an archive of the list of blocks made and who made...

A funny thing happened when I went to the random.org site to use it to pick our winners … the site was (temporarily?) unavailable. Fortunately, it was only a small hiccup because I still had the random app on my phone, installed when my computer died last year.   We ended the month with 166 blocks, 25 of which were donated with no chance in the drawing.  Our 3 winners are:   Julianne – 56 blocks Jude – 56 blocks...

The deadline for the sneak peek is actually TODAY at noon (on the east coast). I guess I was so worried about being late that I was early and convinced myself that yesterday was the 22. I have forwarded the sneak peek email messages to Teresa and will do that for anyone how posts before the deadline TODAY. I had a rough and hectic weekend, can you...

If you are one of the 30 quilters who have made and posted some of the 123 blocks on the list so far this month, you should have just received sneak peek email from me with information about next month’s block and guidelines. If you should have received the mail but didn’t, be sure to check your spam folder (because that happens),then let me know and I’ll resend it. Also, EVERYONE, please be sure to check the list on the...