Checkerboard BOM

Here's my fabric pull for the BAMQ BOM that's running now through next year. I've chosen all prints in dark to light grays. Will I perhaps use some solids or even my hand-dyes? Perhaps. Will I put a little spot o' color in there? Maybe. Or maybe just maybe the quilting thread that I use will be all neon colors.

This was the first month's BOM block, a creation I came up with using HSTs. The idea was to make more than one of these, but altering the position/direction of at least one of the units that incorporates two HST blocks.

To test that idea out, I made another 12 HSTs

 out of the remainder of the 2.5" strips I'd used to make the first block. 

In this second version of it, which I also liked quite a lot. I really do find that HSTs are very very fun to play around with. See below to see how the two blocks look next to each other.

The new block this month is: Checkerboards. Which I am always drawn to (probably due to my late 70's Ska obsession). Making the checkerboard border in the Old Town Mystery quilt was very happy-making for me even though it took quite a while to accomplish. I truly love the look of it. So, here's my Checkerboard block for the BOM made out of 3" squares.