Kate, I just finished three blocks, so I'm in!
But please leave my name out of the drawing.
I'm not particularly fond of red, (but I sure had fun making them,) and I'd like to have a chance at winning in another lotto.

I need to e-mail you about how to ship them w/o getting them wrinkled.

Julie

I'd like to jump in as a newbie. I made two blocks tonight. There simple since I wanted to get in on time. Hope that's OK. I'm sending an email for your address. Thanks,
Bev

Kate-I got 3 blocks made for January's Lotto. They should go out tomorrow! This is going to make a nice size quilt for the winner!
Thanks again for jumping in to organize this Lotto & keep it going.

Kate, I sent you an email requesting your address. Did you get it? Thanks

k8orlando - 3 (received)
loisf - 1 (received)
lola99 - 1(+)
quiltpartner - 1(+)
calliope - 3 (received)
beth7happy - 3 (received)
magothyrivergirl - 3
nannykins - 3
citytransplant - 1
littlehelen - 3 (received)
wynative - 1(+)
vasu_texas - 3
mary_c - 1
luvtosharedivs - 3
bev2009 - 2

This is going to make an amazing quilt!
I'll definitely take a picture and post it before sending them all to the winner.

Wow, the mailbox was full today!!!
Theresa, your blocks arrived on Thursday.

k8orlando - 3 (received)
loisf - 1 (received)
lola99 - 1(+)
quiltpartner - 1(+)
calliope - 3 (received)
beth7happy - 3 (received)
magothyrivergirl - 3 (received)
nannykins - 3 (received)
citytransplant - 1
littlehelen - 3 (received)
wynative - 1(+)
vasu_texas - 3
mary_c - 2 (received)
luvtosharedivs - 3 (received)
bev2009 - 2

Kate, just dropped mine off at the post office.

I mailed mine yesterday.

Lola

I received Marie's block today.

I'm working the Florida election on Tuesday so we may have to do the drawing on Wednesday evening instead of Tuesday. Usually I don't get home until close to 11pm on election days so I don't want to promise anything for that day. If we have all the blocks here by Monday, maybe we can do it then instead. I'll be gone for a couple days, but I'll tally it all up on Sunday evening and let you know.

k8orlando - 3 (received)
loisf - 1 (received)
lola99 - 1(+)
quiltpartner - 1(+)
calliope - 3 (received)
beth7happy - 3 (received)
magothyrivergirl - 3 (received)
nannykins - 3 (received)
citytransplant - 1
littlehelen - 3 (received)
wynative - 1 (received)
vasu_texas - 3
mary_c - 2 (received)
luvtosharedivs - 3 (received)
bev2009 - 2

I was out of town for a couple days and came back to find a huge stack of mail on the dining room table, including squishy envelopes with more lotto blocks!

I'll count again tonight but it looks like we have 35 blocks; enough for a large and lovely quilt. I'll try to get pictures before I send them all out to the lucky winner.

The only ones I haven't received (but I'll check again!) are from quiltpartner and citytransplant. If you've sent them, please let me know. If you didn't get them done for this month, that's OK - we all understand!

k8orlando - 3 (received)
loisf - 1 (received)
lola99 - 3 (received)
quiltpartner - 1
calliope - 3 (received)
beth7happy - 3 (received)
magothyrivergirl - 3 (received)
nannykins - 3 (received)
citytransplant - 1
littlehelen - 3 (received)
wynative - 1 (received)
vasu_texas - 3 (received)
mary_c - 2 (received)
luvtosharedivs - 3 (received)
bev2009 - 2 (received)
sunnycentral fl - 2 (received)

Sigh of relief. Glad you received it in time. I forgot to measure before I sent them, so I hope they are 12.5 exactly.

Any one on right now who can help with the drawing? We'll need two people: one to assign numbers to names and another to select a number.

Kate

I'm here, what do you need?

SharonG/FL

I'm here.

Yea! OK - I'm going to email the participants list to Marsha. She can randomly assign numbers, then she'll ask Sharon to pick a number between 1 and 25. That's the number of people in the drawing. Of course, some people have their names in 2 or 3 times, depending on blocks submitted. A few have chosen not to enter their names.

Sending now!

Kate

Sharon - Marsha has numbers assigned. Pick any number from 1 through 25 and post it, please!

Sharon - pick a number between 1 and 25 please and post!

I am in the drawing~I have emailed the list of randomly assigned numbers to Kate - she will announce the winner - I am stepping away from the computer :) Good luck everyone!

OK - I'm just waiting on number, then I'll announce winner. I'm not in the drawing but I'm holding my breath anyway!!!

If Sharon went offline, let me know. I'll be online for another five or ten and can pull a number.

OK Calliope! Please pick a number and we'll go with that.

Thanks!

The number is ............. 17!!!!

OK...........fourteen says my hubby!

LOL! Well, it's a good thing Marsha didn't choose to announce the winner because... IT'S HER!

MAGOTHYRIVERGIRL is the winner of the first lotto of 2012.

Congrats!!!

FYI - 17 is the first number that was posted so that's the one I went with.

Kate

OMG..........LOL.........Sorry Sharon. Whoopie Marsha! Congratulations. Who's on first? I won a set of the red samplers four years ago. It makes a great quilt.

It was my DH that chose the number 17! That's so funny.

ConGratz Marsha!!!!

Congratulations, Marsha. And thanks, Kate. This was a great way to choose the winner. I hope someone posts a photo of the blocks (hint, hint). This was so much fun. I can't wait to get home from Hawaii so I can start on the February blocks.

Good for you Marsha. I hope Kate gets a chance to post pictures of the squares first.

Thank you! I needed a new project and I am so delighted to win. I have very little red - had to go buy it to make my blocks. Give your hubby a kiss Sharon!

Calliope - do you have a picture of your sampler?

Somewhere on a disc. It lives in England, so I can't get a new pic.

I said I would post pictures, but they are all so nicely wrapped... well, I certainly understand why you want to see them so I'll give it a try tonight. Now, where am I going to set out 35 blocks?!?!?

I didn't make this one, but I saw it on-line and think it's beautiful! Marsha, this might give you a little inspiration:

Contrats, Marsha!
I second the hint to see the blocks.
I agree also, Kate, that you've chosen a clever way to choose the winner.

Can't wait to see the finished project, Marsha...have fun!!!

Julie

Lucky girl! Congratulations!
Theresa

Congratulations Marsha, magothyriver gal...(you by any chance wouldn't be a Maryland resident,would ya?)
I third the hint to see the blocks...
V.

Congrats Marsha! You are going to have a fun project ahead.

Lola

Congratulations Marsha!! I think these will make a wonderful quilt.

Winning is such fun, isn't it?

Sorry this took me so long!!!
I wanted to lay them all out but was afraid I would mess up the ID cards and Marsha wouldn't know who made them if I did that. So I took pictures individually and saved them in groups.

Aren't they beautiful!?!

Kate

Oh...........My.........Gosh. It's gonna be a riotously happy quilt!

calliope - You described it!!! I am excited more than ever!

Fabulous! I love the variety! I can't wait to see the finished product.

Thanks for posting the pictures, Kate. It's so much fun to see them all.

wow...some VERY beautiful blocks! Thanks, Kate, for all the work you're doing

Thanks, Kate, for organizing the blocks into group pics.
I know how much time it takes to snap the pics, then download them to your computer, then resize if necessary, then upload to Photobucket, then post them here for all to see.

You are a girl that goes above and beyond of what's expected of a lotto block organizer!

Julie

Gorgeous blocks. Thanks for posting the pictures of them Kate.

Glad to do it! No thanks necessary.

I probably won't post pictures each month because the blocks will be the same but with all of them different this month, it seemed like a fun idea. I'll do it again in June when we do the blue/yellow stars. I think that's going to be a pretty batch.

And I can hardly wait until the month with the Santa Faces!

Congrats Marsha. You're getting some pretty nice blocks. Please post pics of the quilt once you put it together. Finally got to checking out the winner.

I would like to see the April blocks. I think those are going to be really smashing!
I know they are all black and white but the zinger fabrics will be special.
Theresa

Maybe those of us with digital cameras can take our own pics and post them before we send them in. Then it wouldn't fall on Kate. You could even start a different thread with a title like pics of Bento Box so the lotto thread wouldn't be overwhelmed. Even if you didn't get to see all of them you'd see enough to get some eye candy.

I think it's OK to post picture right in the main thread for that lotto. We don't want to overwhelm the message board with too many posts all related to this. Each thread will take up to 150 posts before filling up so we've got lots of room!