I was feeling very guilty about not using up my block lotto winnings in a timely fashion so I got out my two wins from last year, added some plain yellow/orange fabric squares from my stash, and presto: a wonderful top! I love combining wins from two unrelated months and trying to make something interesting of them. I actually love this. Doesn’t it remind you of an old-fashioned table cloth? I am thinking about adding a border to make it...

Hi …so what do you think? This was my win from New Years Eve 2014 it was a lot of fun and very relaxing to Piece. While I was working on my Mod Mod Quilt I had a lot of time to think about what I would do with these blocks. What would unify them and what would I do with all the various sizes? I kept thinking of the old fashioned photo Albums with the heavy black paper and lick em and stick em triangle corners we used to hold the photos...

I finally finished this just a moment ago and was so excited I threw it down in my yard and snapped a photo so I could post it for you. I did it as quilt-as-you-go, and found tutorials on the internet that let me finish the sashing and the binding totally by machine. It’s what a mod mod quilt deserves, don’t you think? This is the queen size, so it’s very big! My mother loved it when she saw it, so I am going to give it to...

Hello Guy and Dolls…I just wanted to show you the top so far! My blocks are done and sewn together. As you can see, I took Elizabeth Cl.’s advice and went with the off white background…that is to give it some visual warmth in our long ,cold winters…Thank You Elizabeth! It worked and I am Happy with the result. Sophie I love your designs I found everything clear and workable for a new sewer except for the Sunrise…I...

I finished my Sunshine quilt made up of 15 blocks won in June 2014 (the block was called “sunrise”). While many of you are heading towards the longest day of the year, I am heading towards the shortest day. And, although sunshine is not unusual in Auckland in the winter time, there’s not nearly enough of it for my taste – this quilt should help. For more detail, check out the blog posts I’ve done along the way,...

Here is the finished quilt made from the November 2014 Easy X blocks. It turned out to be a graduation quilt for the beautiful daughter of a good friend. I’ve added a detail of the quilting done by Charlene Koppenol on her long-arm machine. She put a few crosses into the quilt in honor of the girl’s attachment to her church. I’m also showing you a picture of the backing, which was an incredibly lucky find at our local fabric...

I am participating in a free-motion quilting pillow challenge. I decided to add a personal challenge within the challenge and use the woven bars block for several pillows. The personal challenge is to create a free-motion quilting design that helps each woven bar pillow unique. You saw the March(brown and gold woven bar). Here are the April and May...

Well, Dolls and Guy, Finally I am happy with my first big quilt top! This has been a terrific, fun, educational and -frustrating at times experience…I have definitely found a passion that will endure as long as I am able bodied. After setting these beautiful Blocks (Thank You everyone…your Blocks are amazing!) On Point and with red setting blocks and then unpicking it all because it looked like a gaping ,bloody shark mouth…Yes...

  I have a quilter’s spidey sense when it comes to spotting lotto blocks on blogs, web sites, Pinterest, Facebook … and, ahem,  sometimes even my block patterns directions in block/quilt patterns being sold as someone else’s original work. Here’s my latest spotting, from Melinda Quilts, Etc.  I am posting it here with her permission.     Melinda won the blocks in January, 2011.  Follow the link to her blog...

Basket Weaving 101 42 x 64 Hand quilted with perle #8 I combined some of my Banded Basket block winnings in Oct 2013 with the Weave block winnings from Nov 2014. Cathy L in IA Sane, Crazy, Crumby...

Sometimes a quilt or a set of blocks is the inspiration for my choice of a block pattern for us. Other times, one of the lotto blocks we’ve made is inspiration for a project … it turns out, this quilt is all the above.   The 6-inch bright logs are from a log ago block exchange and were the inspiration for the August 2008 lotto block.  When I was asked a few months ago to make a wall hanging to raffle at the guild’s...

Kristin posted a photo of her finished quilt on Facebook and gave me permission to share it here.   It is made from the Scrappy Trips lotto blocks she won in November 2011.   I love the interesting paths she created in her layout of the...