Hawaiian Challenge - #10 February

We picked up our challenge fabric at Four Winds Quilting the beginning of February.  We were to return to the store with the fabric in some format other than the format in which it started.  This is what I came up with:

After much peer pressure, I also entered this quilt in the Big Sky Quilt Retreat show.  The Big Sky Quilt Retreat show is not judged.  There is a People's Choice award in each category but it is just a ribbon award (except for the Challenge category which does include money).  There were 180 quilts on display in the show this year.

I made up this quilt.  The strips are sewn together at a diagonal.  I had an intended width of the quilt.  But when I cut the first section of strips, it was about 4 inches shorter than I had intended.  What I had not considered is the fabric lost when the strips are sewn together on the diagonal.  About 2 1/2" of each strip is lost.
I also learned that quilting densly does not change the color of the fabric.  I did not think the purple frames around the Birds of Paradise was dark enough.  I quilted it really thickly with dark purple thread.  The color of the fabric did not change.  Imagine that.  The frame still does not pop.
Most of the orange and green fabric was from my stash.  Bonus!