Béa's Bow Ties

Béatrice (Béapatch) was the first to post her lotto blocks on the forum . . . but apartment hunting slowed me down and I am playing catch-up on the blog. Here are her pretty blocks.

Fabric Poll Results

At the end of last year, 41 people responded to the Fabric poll. Before I remove the poll from the sidebar, I want to record the results.

30s Repros: 21 votes - 51%
Christmas Prints 18 votes - 43 %
Asian Prints - 17 votes - 41%
CW Repros: 14 votes - 34%
Kid Novelties 11 votes - 26 %
Flannels 11 votes - 26%
Homespun Plaids votes 9 - 21%
Adult Novelties 9 votes - 21 %
None of these please 3 votes - 7 %

Thanks to everyone who voted and participated in brainstorming discussion on the forum. I hope the block lotto continues to enjoy the amazing success we've had in the past few years.

Terri's January Bow Ties

Here are my 8 blocks for this month's lotto. I really enjoyed making them! Good choice Sophie!

Terri

rho's January Lotto Blocks - BowTie

Rho's blocks for Jan. 09.

Sandy's Four Blocks

Here are my blocks. I don't think I'll be making anymore this month.

Mad for Plaid Bow Tie Blocks

The January Lotto Block was originally called Neck Tie, in both versions we're making, but is now more commonly known as Bow Tie.




For links to the patterns, fabric guidelines and discussion, click over to the forum discussion on quilting.about.com.

Congratulations, December Winners

Congratulations to our last winners of 2008:

Markelas (Kelly) (mingtoy52) -- 64 blocks

Shelley (madme3) -- 56 blocks

Barbara (zizzybob) -- 51 blocks

I can't wait to see the beautiful quilts I know you are going to make from these sunny blocks.

We ended the year with an unbelievable total of 2134 lotto blocks for the year. Wow!

Kelly's blocks for December

These blocks were made by Kelly (mingtoy52).

Pamela's Yankee Puzzle Blocks

Hi, Here are my blocks.

Yankee Puzzle Blocks- Dec.08 - from rho

Here we go! rho's submission for December!

Mary' Jane's Revised 8

Let's try these 9. I know I only get 8 chances, but I made 9 by the time I tried to fix and started over.

Lori in SD Blocks

Saw these on a blog and had to join in. Lori in SD

Melissa's Puzzles

These are my blocks for December. They were fun and once you get going, they come together pretty quick.

Sylvia's blocks

Here are Syvlia's blocks - like many of us this month, she's got one to swap around (the brown one) before sending them on, but plenty of time to do that before the end of the month...

Judee's blocks

6 blocks from Judee (3199)