Here is my first block (ignore the untrimmed strings and the wrinkly table cloth). It's really the only thing I have sewn since we're back from vacation, which is sad because we've been home for 2 weeks.
This block is made entirely out of scraps from a scrap pack I got from Hawthorne Threads, except for the black straw fabric. I'm still not confident in my abilities so I don't really want to cut into more expensive stash fabric, plus the blocks are supposed to be scrappy. The tutorial also calls for cutting the crosses on the bias... which I had no idea how to do until I made this block. Horray for learning new things!
I don't have a ton of black and white in my stash, so I did splurge and buy some half yard cuts of black and white fabric to use. I had been eyeing that library script fabric for a long time, but it was out of stock on Fabric.com, so when it came back in stock (and was on sale to boot) I had to scoop some up.
I'm thinking that my first attempt in scrappy fabrics will be a nice gift for my sister whose birthday is in October (at the rate I finish projects this will take me until October!). These blocks are using the 12.5" modified cutting instructions, so it would take 7 blocks across and 8 blocks down to make a full sized quilt... not too bad considering every other block I've made so far has taken much more sewing and has a smaller finished size. I'm afraid to actually quilt a full sized quilt on my dinky little Craigslist sewing machine, so I will probably use the quilt as you go method to get these blocks quilted.
If I decide to make another xplus quilt for myself, I would really love to use these fabrics from Pat Bravo's Indie line. I have to actually finish a quilt though before I buy more fabric otherwise Ryan will be annoyed with me. I feel like these fabrics would give the same bold look as Bijou Lovely's quilt without being a complete copy-cat.
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