Working out a new skill

Hello, everyone. As y'all might remember,  DH was really interested in a modern art painting at the Museo Thyssen-Bournemisza (spelling guessed from memory here) that was essentially a "color play" painted and modified version of a log cabin style quilt block. I think it was by Mondrian, and the general effect was a square spiral in a collection of similar-mood colors. He asked me to make a quilt like that.

the first try at getting the idea together.

There are about 22 squares that have the accent strip going diagonally down the middle, with each half a different color.

Today the trial divided square: 

and the size, without trimming

Pretty much right on!

Whoopee!

Atapuerca to Burgos, in cold rain

Hello, everyone. We got into Burgos yesterday about noon. The walk was wet but otherwise okay. We turned off the Strava at the McDonald's at the edge of town. (We go to McDonald's if we need to use internet, and the ones in Spain have good cafe con leche, too.) Then we looked at our info on the place we had reserved the day before and thawed out a bit before going on into the main part of the city. 

Breakfast was at 0800 at an open cafeteria/bar on the way, just before the rain started. 

The first church we came to, after McDonald's.  The crucifix inside is really nice, but when I tried to add it in here Blogger turns the photo sideways. 

Today, we are having a rest day. We went to the Museo de la Evolution Humana, where the artefacts from the Atapuerca Mountains archeological discoveries are still being made. The museum is really neat, the anthropology museum we have been in. 

This nifty fellow is an atmospheric decoration near the entrance. He and his buddies (horse, rooster, wolf, maybe some others) are just fun. The exhibits about the geology and archeology are really neat. And by consolidating all of the work from the area together, over quite a collection of cave discoveries, they are able to build an exhibition about the continuum of the people and animals over the epoch.

The gift shop had a cute fabric tote with a print of the cave but I thought about carrying it for 300 miles to Santiago and left it in the shop. 

Update on the quilt-in-progress

Hello,  everyone.  I hope all y'all had a merry Christmas. We've been busy, of course, but some progress has been happening on the quilt.

This is the present limit of the stitching; it's a machine sewn binding with mitered corners. (Autocorrect tried to confuse that sentence. I really have to look sharp all the time.) There actually is a fair amount of these greens in the quilt panel, on the various water-oriented parts, even though none is showing at this corner. Other than the twigs in the border that is.

I found these fabrics, except the binding, at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Denver last summer. They also had a really cool exhibit of a couple of kinds of quilt making. In depth coverage of the potential of the two way to work. We really enjoyed it, and also the quilt fabric shop attached. 😉

Just in time for Christmas,  I  completed a yarn bag gift. 

This was made from a Sew Can She pattern, except for quilting on the sides and some piecing. I got to use some of the cool hardware I got at the Houston Quilt Festival a couple of years ago, too. All fabrics and the foam stabilizer were from stash, because at the last minute who has time to shop?

Road trip report #3 (edited)

Hello, everyone.  This is another road trip post. I intend to do as many of them as I have decent photos to show.

A small selection of the many windmills at the Wind Power Museum.

The day after Lubbock was a walk day and also a make-progress day. We got out at a nice, early time and drove down the Interstate to Palo Duro Canyon State Park.

A view of the visitor center. They sell cold water there. There are also exhibits.

This is part of the Lighthouse Trail, a 5 mile out-and-back on the canyon floor. (We walked 4 of the miles. It was midday, and the temp was 90F so when we got to the 2 mile marker, we turned around and walked back to the car,  drove back to the visitor center, and drank the lovely cold water.) The walk is lovely and it reminded us of walking in 2023 on the southern parts of the Plata. Without the paved parts, of course! There are resting seats here and there along the trail. The Lighthouse of the trail name is a rock formation.

Palo Duro is one of the projects worked on by the men of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930's. There is a room with exhibits about the CCC in the visitor center, as well as information about geology and the interactions various groups of people had with each other on the area.

After our walk, we drove to Trinidad, Colorado. Trinidad is growing. It seems to be getting popular with the ski crowd.

(Edited to fix the state location for Trinidad. Sorry!)