Black and White Christmas quilt

Has it been 3 weeks since my last quilting blog entry?!   But thankfully not that long since my last quilting! LOL!

I started cutting the black and white fabric fabric and sewing together the blocks for the quilt that I'm making a family member for Christmas. (Can't reveal who it is so as not to ruin the surprise.)

Some blocks are made of white on black fabric and some black on white. The centre of each is a 3 1/2 inch chocolate brown square.   Each completed block is 9 1/2 inches square.
After that one of each white print block is pinned together to a black print block, right sides facing and a pencil line is drawn diagonally corner to corner across the block (on the white side so it is easier to see).

Then you sew a quarter inch seam on both sides of the pencil line, and after that, cut along the pencil line and press open. Voila! Now you have 2 blocks that are half and half! These blocks are 9 inches square.

After making 42 blocks like this ( 21 white on black fabric and 21 black on white), they will be arranged into an interesting pattern. Right now I have two thirds of the blocks completed with 14 more blocks to sew.  18 of them are already made into 'half and half' blocks.  This is actually going faster than I had anticipated!  I should be done the quilt in plenty of time for Christmas at this rate!

Future plans: Am starting to think about making a little baby quilt with a similar idea in pink and blue half and half blocks... But maybe somewhat smaller... Instead of using 3 1/2 inch squares and 9 x 3 1/2 inch rectangles to create the blocks, I might try making them from 2 1/2" sq. and 6 1/2 x 2 1/2" rectangles... Hmmmmm...

Also thinking about signing up for a quilting class in town to make a "French Braid" quilt.  Always thought the French Braid quilts look so gorgeous and apparently they are not that hard to do....