I saw a show on Simply Quilts many years ago where a guest was showing how to make a quilt out of ultra suede, I think it was, maybe real suede. He arranged the squares so the shading on every other block was different, I guess with and against the grain. It was gorgeous. He did simple quilting in the ditch. It inspired me, but I used a fabric that looked like ultra suede and did the same thing - 12" squares set on point and stitched in the ditch. It was king size and I quilted it in my dinky mechanical Brother XR-52. It was for my son and he loved it. Anyway, the inspiration from the show was very simple and very beautiful.