Monday, April 16, 2012

X-tra Special Gift

My half brother starts high school next fall at a school affectionately known locally as "St. X." I thought it would be fun to make him a quilt with an "X" in it as a birthday/8th grade graduation gift.

To start the process, I decided to do a little internet searching for block patterns. What I found is a big ole party around the Japanese X block!


photo credit: Amy from Badskirt

This fantastic block is all over Flickr. Most of them seem to have been made from a tutorial by Amy on her blog Badskirt.

I have some quick thinking and designing to do. Because this has to be done by the end of May, I don't think making a whole quilt out of this block is possible. But I could do a simple pattern on the front and then next one of these blocks on the backing? What do you think I should do?


2 comments:

  1. GO Bombers! We are a St. X family! I think if you use the royal blue and white or fabric with those colors it would be an awesome quilt. You could make a small X out of the blocks in the middle of the quilt with lots of negative space around it.

    Congrats to your brother!

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  2. Love this block! I've made 33 for my quilt, but I started in December- this is definitely the most long suffering quilt I've made so far, and now it's on hold til the end of the contest of course. Maybe you could make 5-6 and stagger them in rows... kind of like Sarah Smith's Habitat quilt, if you remember that. Or you could do something like this, which looks pretty awesome:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27780490@N05/6812149242/in/photostream

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