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The objectum flag is made up of 6 colors; five stripes with a big circle in the middle. While doing exact color matches wasn't something I wanted to do, I still hope it's recognizable.

When Casper mentioned wanting a quilt, I started brainstorming some different ideas and landed on the OS flag. We are both OS and it's a big part of our identities and relationship.

Then I had the idea to make each square a different object (within reason)!

So... What fabrics did I use?

Blue:

Lighthouses (Etsy link)

I don't see love for lighthouses very often, and I was unable to find a boat fabric I liked, so this is what I settled on to represent all things maritime.

Water (Etsy link)

I know of multiple people who consider water their partner

Circuitboard (Spoonflower)

Represents all technology, machinery, and things like computer programs

Wind turbines (Spoonflower)

Know a couple people who have wind turbine partners. Also they're sexy.

Grey:

Cars (Etsy link)

Desperately tried to find some Nissan fabric to represent Casper's object partner (Miss Tuxedo Latte the 2018 Nissan Sentra) but was unable to find some. So pretend this fabric is a schematic of her

Construction vehicles (Etsy link)

Big and sexy, and also just cool. Pattern was fun too

City/buildings (Spoonflower)

I know several OS people into specific buildings and cities

Steel texture (Etsy link)

Represents all things metal, industrial, or otherwise "manmade"

White:

Teddy bears (Etsy link)

Specifically for plushums, but is also a catch all for toys in general

Metro train map (Spoonflower)

For anyone into public or mass transit

"it's a small world" pattern (Etsy link)

Fabric to represent my object partner, the "it's a small world" clock 🥰

Fair/amusement park pattern (Spoonflower)

For all people into theme parks and their attractions. Specifically cut to represent flat rides and roller coasters (plus Casper and I initially bonded over finding coasters attractive, so it deserves a spot here)

Red:

I Spy inspired fabric (The Common Thread)

To represent objects as a whole

Airplanes (Etsy link)

Needs no explanation

Adirondack chairs (Etsy link)

Pattern was cute and it's a unique object so I wanted to include something atypical

Yellow:

Trains (Etsy link)

Also needs no explanation. Plus the pattern is very charming and I want to use this fabric in a future project

TVs (Spoonflower)

I saw how you all reacted to Tenna

Construction cranes (Etsy link)

Represents a long time mutual who has a large construction machine partner

Sunflowers (Etsy link)

I know there's debate if plants count as OS but they're pretty and one of my close friends uses sunflowers as symbolism for their partner, so that's why I picked them

Purple:

Satellites (Spoonflower)

Because satellites are beautiful, and I wanted something to represent those who are into rockets and/or conceptum for space and spacial phenomenon

Computers/laptops (Spoonflower)

Needs no explanation. Computers are The objectum object of all time on this website

Bookshelves (Etsy link)

For people into books

Music notes (Spoonflower)

For those who are conceptum for music

^ Here are some more photos from assembly. (It's all hand sewn)

Currently editing a video version of the process and want to get better photos of the quilt sometime, but that's all for now. I want to make a larger version of this someday and think it could be fun to source fabric from the community to represent more people's objects. But we'll see if I ever get back to that idea (I have two different ideas I want to get to first).

Thank you for reading!