If you made and posted Noon and Light blocks in April, you should have received email from me with the mailing info. If you made blocks and DID NOT receive the email, let me know ASAP. If you did receive the email, please take a quick look at the information for you in the chart and let me know ASAP if there is an error. As many of us will be mailing blocks to Karen in South Africa this month, please plan to mail early so she gets them in a...

What lovely blocks you all made.  I put a slip of paper with your name for each block made and placed them in a box. My DH drew two names – 37 blocks to each winner.  And the winners are Karen N and Kristen S.  Congratulations, ladies!  Thank you all for allowing me to host this month.   And thanks to all the participants in this great group!

This is a gentle reminder to be sure to identify yourself by name in your blog posts … and if you have a common name add something that uniquely identifies you, like Kathie from Allentown or Linda from the Big D. You can set up the display name to whatever you want, but if it doesn’t include your first name, be sure to “sign” your blog posts.  It will help the monthly Block Mom’s construct the list of blocks and...

April 2018 Blocks Posted This is our tally post for the April 2018 Night and Light Blocks posted. Total Blocks so far:   74   For a chance in the drawing: (58) Angie Nudge     1 Barbara Post    2 Julie Post          4 Kathie L            2 Peggy                4 Margaret R      2 Karen N           6 Nann H            4 Cathy K            6 Christa B          2 Cathy L             2 DesertSkyQ      1 Linda                4 Christa B       ...

Welcome to April at Block Lotto. Let’s use up some scraps! Our April Block Lotto block is the traditional Noon and Light pattern. In keeping with springtime, find a yellow in your stash or scraps that you can use in this block as your background. You’ll need around a fat eighth. The rest of the pieces will be scraps – colors your choice. The finished blocks measures 9” – or 9 ½” unfinished. Here is the link for the PDF file: Scrappy...

First, sorry I’m a couple hours late. The Easter Egg Hunts went on a bit longer than I was led to believe by my family and the Easter Bunny. Sheesh! But we have two winners. I randomized the list of 83 block entries (of the total 90 made; 7 were donation blocks). Then the resulting order was put into Mr. Random Number Generator, and he picked number 67, then number 1, which corresponded to: ROBIN and NEEDLED MOM Congratulations, Ladies. Thank...

If you made and posted Dressed-Up Orphan blocks last month, you should have recently received email from me with an attachment containing the Mailing Info sheet. If you didn’t receive the email, let me know ASAP. If you see a mistake, please let me know ASAP. I apologize for the delay.  At the beginning of the week I was dealing with a NO HEAT situation at my loft; at the end, I was attending a Saturday class that wipes me out … in...

The original instructions for the March Susannah block had one picture flipped in error (or as I like to say, “by misssssssssnake”). Anyway, that has now been fixed. The link will now take you to the corrected tutorial, or you can access it here: BlockLottoSusannah. Thanks for bearing with me!

This is our tally post for the March 2018 Susannah Blocks posted. Total Blocks as of March 30:    90   For a chance in the drawing: (83) KarenN – 3 Barbara – 4 Cathy L – 8 Kathy S – 8 Margaret – 3 Nann – 8 Sukay – 5 Jude – 3 Christa – 1 KathieL – 4 Linda – 4 Julie P – 2 Pat KK – 8 Marsha R – 2 Julie W – 4 Robin – 4 Neayact – 1 Desert Sky...

Welcome to March at the Block Lotto! To celebrate the eventual arrival of spring (in the Northern Hemisphere, that is) and all things Irish in March, our block this month is heavy on the greens. It’s  fun and easy and offers a lot of design potential. For March, we’ll be making the traditional block, “Oh Susannah!”, but we’re simplifying the name to Susannah. The finished block will be 8”, but should measure 8.5” as sewn. The inspiration and...

We made 84 blocks so we will have two winners this month picked from 62 entries (donations excluded). Picking winners was really fun and educational too! I learned how to randomize my list in Excel before I generated the winning numbers of 36 & 58 which belonged to …. KATHIE & KATHLEEN Congratulations ladies, you will each receive 42 blocks. Now I will turn this over to Sophie to supply us with the mailing...

If you made Color Frame blocks in January, you should have received email from me with the Mailing Info Sheet. Please check that: You received the email The number of blocks attributed to you is correct. The total number of blocks made was 104–note that I had incorrectly listed one person’s blocks twice and came up with a higher number (I have since corrected the...