One Project - Three Flimsies

In June 2012, I tore this photo out of a magazine.

Something about it shouted "quilt!"

In the Eye of the Beholder by Alan Trout

Last year, I took a picture of this photo.

(sighted in one of DH's  American Association of Woodturner's magazines)

The vessel and its colors spoke clearly to me.

The gathered denim blues shifted to a stack of turquoise shades . . .

. . .  and when Vicki posted about her

  HSTeria Quiltalong,

I knew it was time to begin.

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This is Karma

44" wide x 66" long

(96 scrappy HSTs)

This is Poolside

44" wide x 66" long

(96 scrappy HSTs)

Karma and Poolside

laying side by side on our driveway.

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So how did I end up with enough HSTs to make TWO quilt tops?

Easy.

The inspiration tutorial called for 166 6" squares.

Instead, I cut my scrappy  6" WOF strips 

into as many 6" squares as possible.

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Instead of another oversized quilt,

I also chose to make a smaller quilt . . .

Which led to making the second smaller quilt . . .

Which still left me with a stack of 58 scrappy HSTs!

* * *

Introducing Oasis.

(shown here taped to the wall where it will eventually hang)

33" wide x 44" long.

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Those final ten HSTs?

They've been banished to the resource boxes.

Three flimsies is enough!

Quiltdivajulie