I'm Baaack!

When Sophie saw on my blog that I am back into quilting, she suggested I take time to make some lotto blocks, which sounded like a fine idea to me. SO I started Sunday night getting fabrics chosen and cut. Monday morning I started sewing. Then My DH interrupted the process with a request for a baby gift quilt for one of his students who is becoming a father for the first time at age 48. Knowing I was going to be gone all day Wednesday, I said "probably not" and promptly challenged myself to do it anyway. And I did! I finished it yesterday before dinner. So before bedtime last night I got back to the lotto blocks and trimmed the triangles and started sewing them 9 patch together. FInished up this morning and took a picture with my phone camera, which unfortunately has a scratch on its lens.

Oh My Stars!

My mail box is bursting with Milky Way blocks! Thank you all, I love them!

Today I received:
Shelly 5 blocks
Kristen 4 blocks
Debbie 4 blocks

Everytime I open a package I think "what beautiful fabric, where do they shop?" I can't wait for my Christmas sewing to be done so I can put this quilt together. Thank you all!

dy

Oriental Stars received

I received my final four blocks from Debbie Markowitz today, all the way from Israel. Very nice, thanks Debbie.

LJRandolph (Laura)

More Blocks Received

I have been a little hectic lately, but can happily report I have received the following blocks :

Mary Jane 4 blocks
Kristin 5 blocks
Julie 3 blocks
Sophie 3 blocks
Laura 5 blocks

Thank you everyone, the variety in the blocks is stunning! I'm looking forward to playing with them all!

6 More Spools

My personal deadline was today. Whatever number of blocks I had done were getting posted. I got 6 finished.

If I have time I would like to make 3 more.

4 blocks for lotto

I loved making these cute little Christmas blocks!
A fun pattern - thanks Sophie!
Gail

I wasn't

I really was going to skip this month because I have so many Christmas projects going on right now, several I want done by Thanksgiving to send as early presents (quilts that are Christmas themed mostly) but as I was getting some Christmas themed fabric out of a tub to use as backing I had to pull out nine different Christmas themed fabrics....yup, nine exactly. So I made them.

As I was cutting the fabric I told myself "I'll just donate my chances this month, I have too many projects for this Christmas and I'd hate to have those blocks just sitting around for 10 or so months before I put them into a project.

Then I made two sets. Two. One for me, and one for the lotto. One set to keep if I win and can send the other set to the other winners (I noticed we had at least 100 blocks so far this month and it's only the 14th) so I could be selfish but not too selfish. And if I don't win, then I have an idea for all this other random holiday fabric I have. (Easter fabric? with fancy scissors on it? If you need some, I have it! hehe!)

Moral of the story, here are my nine blocks, and yes I am playing for the pot this month. Good intentions out the window.

Some Well-Aged Lotto Blocks

I just saw these on Michelle's blog, Quilts 'n' Kids 'n' Stuff and had to share.

The blocks are some well-aged Hope of Hartford blocks won in the lotto a few years ago . . . I was surprised when I scrolled down the list of blocks in the left sidebar to see just when these 30's blocks were our lotto blocks. It didn't seem it was so long ago (February 2006).

Click over to her blog to see what else she's been up to lately–she's been busy and the result is some lovely eye candy/charity quilts ;-)

seven spools

I could only find seven Christmasy fabrics in my stash, so that's how many blocks I made. Since I'm clearly not much of a holiday fanatic, I'll donate my chances this month to those who've never won the lotto.

Kristin's 9 Blocks for November

Here are my 9 blocks. My mom stopped by while I was working on them and told me her grandmother called it a bowtie block.

Happy Weekend!
- Kristin

Milky Way Blocks Received

Sorry for they delay on this post. My only excuse is that my husband was home for 2 weeks from working in Iraq, civilian employee at Camp Liberty, the internet took a backseat to him.

Without more delay Big Thank You to:
Mary Jane 3 blocks
Pat 3 blocks
Laura 4 blocks
Julie 3 blocks
Kate 4 blocks

Trudi I will be mailing your block tomorrow.

Thank you everyone!
Dianah

My November blocks

NOV BLOCKS - MANUELA

Hi,

I'm new here. This are my four blocks for this month. I hope you like them, because I really enjoy doing them.

I want to donnate my chances.

More Blocks Received

I received blocks from both Pat and Terri yesterday. The postal strikes are now over and mail is getting through just fine. Thanks you ladies, these blocks are beautiful.

Three Spool Block Variations

Here are three more blocks for this month–I'll be donating the chances for these.

If you click the photo to see the larger images to see where the seams are (and where they aren't), you'll be able to tell that they were not made from squares and half square triangle units. I'll be posting directions in the next day or so, if anyone is interested . . . and you might be, if you want to use 2.5 inch noodles or don't want to slice up a large print any more than necessary.

It's not rocket science and you could probably figure it our on your own, but it was fun to play with the various ways one COULD make this block . . . OK, we all know just how easily amused I am ;-)

BTW, it is perfectly OK to make this block however you like this month as long as the proportions are the same as the blocks we've been making. If you're especially on the run this month, you might even think about carrying them with you and hand-piecing them, like my center block.