Susan's Magical Forest

I was a winner of these beautiful trees [and an equal number that were black with colored background].  These were made into a gift quilt [45" x 53"] for my quilting bee Secret Sister, and I'll give it to her tonight.

I look on it as a Magical Forest which you can tell stories about.  How do you get across the river?  What do you want to explore.  What adventures could each tree hold within it?  Is that your little house, or does someone, something else live there?

Hope my Secret Sister has a place to enjoy this!

Sara Homeyer

wonky tree quilt.....

This is ready for the quilter. I used every block I received and some of my own.

It is my geocaching quilt! I am posting a link, not everyone knows what geocaching is....

http://www.geocaching.com/

Thank you block lotto for being here and giving me a chance to win,

& thank you to all the participants who sent me your blocks.

Julie P (joe tulips)

Benta's Bright Forest

As I was going to sleep last night I had an idea how to arrange the black and bright trees that I won  in December.  A while ago I had tried arranging the blocks as two quilts: one bright on black, and one black on bright, but they were both quite small, so I thought about one style in the centre and the other style outside

Astonishingly, I still remembered it when I woke up this morning, and the blocks went perfectly together in my first (OK, second) arrangement!  I would have finished sewing earlier had I not stitched one drop of trees upside down, but it's now a quilt top, on a fleece blanket, ready for binding when I'm next in the mood for binding.


Ta-da!!!

 Thank you Sophie for organising this, and to all of my very kind contributors :-)

Dec Blocks

My forest is complete!  I received the last pair from Kim F today.  Thank you to everyone who made such fun wonky trees.  I have not noticed any problems - Good Job!

~Andi in Arizona

Benta's stacks

Three blocks for the January Lotto (donated please Sophie) and I seem to have a full house (or a full forest LOL) for the liberated trees, thank you all very much!

As part of the learning curve of making blocks with other people ... I'd like to ask whether most of you do wash your fabrics before making blocks for your own quilts.  I don't, so I am having to create a stash of Block lotto fabrics separate to my own stash, and I wondered if anyone had any suggestions on how to manage this.

Benta

the woods

 I want to thank everyone who sent me blocks. I love them! The picture doesn't have all of them in it, but a good many of them that I had received so far. Some of my off ones are in there too.
What I am going to do is.....
Put a quote about geocaching in it. The blocks and caching are international!
It will read something like....

geocaching: using multi-million dollar satellites to find tupperware in the  woods

So far I have my name done!!  Julie P

blocks in the mail

My apologies to Andi, Julie and Rami. I'm mortified for my blocks to be the stragglers in the forest. If it matters, the blocks were distributed as follows:

Andi-one 12" pair
Julie--one 6" pair; one 9"pair
Ramie--one 6" pair; one 9"pair

Congratulations Ladies.

Trees Arrived!

Blocks this week from Sophie and Melinda in GA.  Thank you!

MORE squishies :-)

Hi all

I have now also received trees from Belinda, Deana, Kathie and Michelle, which leaves Melinda's and Sophie's blocks to come.

Sophie you asked about 'Quality Control'.  All my blocks look to be really well made, so no problems there, although I havent started sewing them together.  It did occur to me that if I found a problem once I started sewing them it would be difficult to see whose was the problem.  One of my ladies kindly put a sticker with her name on the back of each one she sent me, so I will do that too when I have some ready to post (initially in blog land ...any day now!)

What has thrown me is that the list showing who is sending me blocks uses people's first names, and the envelopes quite often only have the sender's surnames on them, so although I have blogged about them I have to hope that I have attributed the right trees to the right senders!  Would it be possible for the members' surnames to be shown on the list too, or would people prefer not to have this shown?

Benta

She shamefully admits ...

I FINALLY took my Tree block pairs to the post office today at lunch.  I think mine are the LAST PAIR for all the winners (except Julie W--in her case, it's the last 2 pairs).

Thanks to everyone for mailing much more promptly than me.

Trees Mailed

In fact...I mailed out my tree blocks LAST monday on the 10th to Julie P...Andie and Benta. I forgot to post about it...but, Julie P in Iowa has already recieved hers last Thursday...YIPPEE!

Belinda

Browndirtcottage.blogspot.com

my forest primeval

I think I have blocks from everyone except Kim and Sophie now, and this is how they look on the design board -- Fabulous, right? I can't wait to put these together!

Sophie, much as I like the stacks for this month, I'm going to donate my chances to the folks who haven't won anything recently.

trees in my mailbox

5 more arrivals from:

Maree NZ...Kate N UK...June CA....Wendy TX......Coralie BC

all blocks arrived safe and sound & they are ALL fabulous

I am looking forward to laying them all out for a picture!

Thank you!!!!  Julie P

even more trees

I received packages from Andra and Laurina -- just 3 more to go and then I can begin "planting"...

Trees traveling west

My trees went out to Ramie and Julie W. today - can't wait to see what you ladies do with them!

Fun Mail

Trees arrived from Laura in GA and Linda in CA.  Thanks ladies, I have a lovely forest growing :-)

first squishy

my first squishy arrived today from Kate - thank you so much!

Benta

Trees in the mail

I have posted my blocks to Sara, Andi & Benta

Blocks In The Mail

I have just mailed my tree blocks to Julie P, Andi and Benta.

Apologies to December winners

I will be unable to get to the post office until Friday....hopefully this cold I have will be a bit less severe by then too!