Blanca Peak Sunrise

 Since Kaja proposed Picking a Palette I keep coming back to this photo by my sister. The Navaho know Blanca Peak as the Sacred Mountain to the East. It feeds immeasurable sand into the Great Sand Dunes National Park along its southwestern side. 

Blanca Peak, CO

Using the scrap bag, here's what I made. Although I love the mountain and the foreground, I decided to concentrate on the sky for my quilt. It's such a wonderful mix of grey, greyed purples, clear sky blues, and brilliant pinks.

Blanca Sunrise baby quilt

This is posted on my blog, too, but needs to be here. Thanks for a great prompt, Kaja. 

Ann

Flowers on the Ocean Border

How time flies. All those ideas for flower quilts are still in my head but I finally added some to the Ocean Waves quilt made from some of the thousands of extra HSTs. I deliberately made extra because several people I love requested this design but then... we started traveling back and forth, the shoebox was put on a shelf and mixed with boxes of real shoes. It's good to clean at some interval or it would never have resurfaced.

Half flower pinned on the sides

While the blue striped yardage from Kaja was in my hand binding another quilt, I realized it blended with many of the blue in Tethys Waves. For a short while I considered flowers with blue petals but some reds pulled for another idea brought this red and white batik to light. Only a small amount and it seemed to blend beautifully with the red squares.

Here a quick photo of the current state. The red really tones down those horrible white gaps. {They looked like missing teeth - in reverse.} Now both reds are gone and only the smallest scrap of blue remains so here's hoping the machine stitching goes well.

Half flowers added to Ocean Waves

My other flower ideas will have to wait for next year but at least this is a nod to the prompt and an old WIP moves along.
Ann