Another New Project Alert! Swoon Quilt

Yesterday's Gumdrop pillow is aaaaaalmost finished (I just have to get more fluffy innards at the fabric store).  With that pretty much done, I decided to start on a Swoon Quilt!  I really love this pattern even though it is NMS (not my style).  It's an 80"x80" square quilt made of nine large blocks:

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I'm making the quilt using these Ruby fat quarters from the Fat Quarter Shop, which are also NMS.

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So much red!  Gross.

To ease myself into it, I'm starting with green and grey.

If you decide to make a Swoon quilt, you can join the SWOON ALONG club.  Almost 800 people are doing it!  I also want to issue a warning:  the cutting for these blocks is TRICKY!  Lots of 7/8ths and you really have to be super accurate to fit all the cuts into one fat quarter.  I messed up!  So I had to make some Frankenstein-blocks:

Just adds to the homemade charm, I suppose.  Pics of a finished block soon!