The Brooklyn quilt block is really 2 blocks for the price of one. If the X in the center of the block is a white or light color it looks like a block doing a careful balancing act with it’s pieces. if the central X is a dark color it reads an X, or a neighborhood with 4 houses!

Used together, these blocks create a really interesting quilt.

I made this quilt, which I call “Brooklyn Preschool” out of fabrics I had in my stash. The grey fabric with white dots was a bit stretchy so the blocks aren’t as true as they should be. (Starching the fabric before cutting it would have helped prevent much of the stretch). I had a stack fabrics in primary colors sitting out and it reminded me of crayons, which made me think of preschool/kindergarten. And the news has been full of talk about the price of school supplies this year. So a school quilt it became!

I plan to use this quilt in a guild project this year so I chose to accent the block with all the white fabric, pairing it with the hot pink fabric to make it really pop, helping to really show the difference in the two blocks.

The binding was a collection of left-over binding pieces so that was a win! I purchased a tossed school supply fabric and added the alphabet/number fabric which was a long scrap strip left from a prior quilt.

Once I’ve used this quilt as my example, I expect it will replace a battered quilt that is on the chair by the window that the dogs like to sit on!