Hi, I just found your thread - can I join up? I love black & white.
I recently finished a collection of seasonal black & white (and red) blocks and made them into a calendar for my quilt studio. I would do the Goshen Star from Quilter's Cache and enlarge it to be 12-1/2" unfinished.
http://www.quilterscache.com/G/GoshenStarBlock.html