I'm in love with my newest quilt top creation, the X and + Quilt.
I bought a bundle of the Cotton and Steel Tokyo Train Ride fabric that included 13 or so fat quarters. I really wanted to create a quilt using all those fabrics in 1 quilt. After much searching, I came across the X and + quilt block and thought it would be a great block to use fat quarters with! Check out Petals and Pins X and + quilt HERE
Here are some close ups of the blocks.
You can find the Tutorial for the block HERE
The block measures 12 inches square once complete, so I didn't need too many to make a decent size quilt. I decided to go with 30 blocks (5 blocks wide, 6 blocks long). In a perfect work, this is a 60 in X 72 in quilt.
This block was pretty simple to do. Along with the Tokyo Train Ride, I mixed in pink fabric from Tula Pink's True collection fabric and pink fabric from Tula Pink's Elizabeth fabric. I also added in some Doe Carolyn Friedlander's third fabric collection Doe by Robert Kaufman. I love Pileofabric for buying fabrics (it's where I got Tokyo Train Ride, Elizabeth and Doe from). Follow Pileofabric on instagram for great specials. I bought the Tokyo Train Ride collection on a buy one bundle get one half off deal! The neutral fabric used in all the block came from by trip to Hancock's of Paducah, also a great place to buy fabric in person and online.
Now I am working on the back. I will be piecing the back. As part of doing this quilt block, you end up with lots of little triangle scrapes.
I decided to sew them together into little HST (half square triangles) and then make rows of flying geese. I think I'll have enough to make 3 rows of flying geese to make vertical stripes on the back. I'll link them together with some other fabric I have yet to choose.
I'm looking forward to trying some custom quilting. Check out Kathleenquilts.com. Each Friday, she provides suggestions for custom quilting and she featured my quilt on August 21st. Check it out HERE!
