Free Patterns from Sophie Junction

In the 11 months of the lotto in 2007 , forum members made 1,097 blocks . . . and another 182 blocks for two charity efforts.

WOW.

Photos of all the blocks can be found in my Flickr collection 2007 Block Lotto.

A total of 40 sets of lotto blocks were mailed to winners this year. A few of those have already become beautiful quilts.

I never blogged the November blocks . . . so here they are.



These blocks were won by Pat and Robert. Chief Elf Pat asked that all the blocks be sent to Robert so he could make something wonderful.

Whether you know it as a sawtooth star, variable star, square and points, unnamed star, or any of the names in the two pages of its variations in Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns . . . this star block is a classic. Terri made these 8 inch blocks for the October Lotto.




This block has infinite possibilities. It scales easily and that big center square can be replaced by 4-patch, pinwheel, square in a square or just changed to a coordinating fabric. For more variation think half-square triangles in the corners.

Marcia Hohn has a page of 12 inch blocks on the Quilter's Cache site which are all variations on the sawtooth star. Christine is using it as the basis for a Christmas Block Swap on the Quilting Forum on about.com. I am making three sets of blocks.



Even though I thought I was done swapping for the year, I couldn't resist.

This was Quilt Pink Weekend. I celebrated by photographing all the blocks received so far from Quilting forum members on about.com.

These blocks were made by Ardyth, Brenda, Cathy, Chris, Colene, Debbie, Desiree, Grace, Jen, Julie, Kathi, Lee Ann, Michelle, Sandy, Suzy, Sylvia, Terri, Tracy, Vanessa and me.

They're obviously taken at different times, hence the variation in white backgrounds, but aren't they pretty?



I'll post more of the pink and orange lotto blocks soon.