Happy Valentine's Day!

The Block Lotto has a new home!  It has it's own web address now: blocklotto.com!
The February blocklotto block is a quilter's choice block.  We were to make a block that incorporated a heart theme with the color scheme of pink, cream, grey and orange.  It really seems like a crazy combo, but I think it works pretty well!

For my block I drew my own paper foundation pieced pattern:

This is obviously the right half.  I'm happy to share the pattern with anyone who'd like it.  I don't know if you can just save the picture here and print it or not.  But I can email you the 2 halves as pdf files if you're interested.

When I finished the heart, I decided it needed a little border.  So that's not in the original pattern.  It took a bit longer than I anticipated to put it all together.  But if I make a second one I think it will go a bit faster.  I'm really pleased with how it turned out.  What do you think?

The Super Hero Quilt

Back in October I wrote a blog post about a paper pieced quilt block that I was interested in (see it here.)  Since then I've done a couple more blocks which were my contribution to the quilt that the Block Lotto members put together as a thank you to our fearless leader Sophie.  You can check it out at Sophie's blog, Sophie Junction.
Here are the 2 blocks I contributed for that project:

Well I decided I wanted to try designing my own paper pieced star.  This is my first drawing, that I made on my iPad.

Then my partner Chris played with the block and came up with a color scheme.

And here is my first attempt at sewing it together.  The points don't all line up as well as I'd like.  But I think its a pretty good effort for my first try!

The first picture on this post is Chris' vision of the whole layout for what he calls the "Super Hero Quilt" because of the color scheme.  I think he did a great job!  Whatcha think?