Spicing it up

I like making quilts partially because I like playing with colour.

Certain colours speak to me, and others I just ignore.

I find myself playing in the same colour palette again and again.

This little quilt (9 by 11) in spice colours is out of my colour comfort zone.

It's from a pattern by Susan and machine quilted in freehand feathers.

I choose these for a challenge over at the Modern8Create blog

and you can read about my process here.

With this one, I went with more organic red bars,

incorporated two shades of grey

inserts here and there

 and organic quilting lines.

Here I pieced all the leftovers into a neutral palette

and inserted curved red bars

and quilted more curves into it.

All three together.

I plan to donate them to Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative.