Begun solely as a way to explore a design and use scraps to do so, Vertices ended up being a little more challenging than I expected. Not difficult, really, but not as enjoyable to piece as I expected. Still, I like the finish, and am glad to have tried it. Originally inspired by "Four-Corner Block," a quilt by Florine Taylor in 1987 shown in Roderick Kiracofe's Unconventional & Unexpected. My version is much more chaotic but there are still some similarities, and the inspiration definitely began there.
My goal at the start was to use all my blue scraps, then I added in black and dark gray. Turned out, I didn't have as many as I thought I would in a reasonable size. Same with the lime-ish strings; for those, I actually cut into Konas Acid Lime and Key Lime yardage when I ran out of usable scraps. The quilt finished at 41" x 55", with a back pieced from stashed yardage and matched binding using Acid Lime and Key Lime again.
So yay for a May quilt finish, even though it took most of the month for me to struggle through it. In the end, I'm really quite fond of it.
