Plays With Needles: peacock

Yesterday, we went to the Baltimore Zoo to meet Samson, the new baby elephant who is 3 months old. At birth, he weighed around 260 lbs. and now he's close to 475 lbs!

Here's the proud Mama

If you live in the area, the baby is only available for viewing between 10 am - 12 Noon so plan accordingly. There were also three baby chimps which were my favorite to watch. They rough-housed, tumbled and got into all types of mischief -- non-stop action over there. I could have stayed all day watching them!

But the biggest surprise of all was that Mr. Peacock decided to strut his stuff. What a marvelous bird! I didn't get a picture of the back of the bird but I believe the back is as fabulous as the front.

The kids had a great time and we were there ALL DAY (The big guy in the back is Jack; he's the only one that belongs to me)!

I think the colors in this picture of the peacock are so glorious! I had to play with them a little.

I decided to use some of the color tools that Sharon B has identified on her blog at different times. I use them all pretty frequently for different reasons.

Here's a page from The Color Palette Generator. I LOVE this tool. It think the color palette looks like quilt squares. Often, I will take the palette and head off to my fabric stash and select the colors to use in a block. The embellishments will be in the highlight colors of the peacock...so all the blues and the chartreuse greens and white, of course...can't you see how they would POP on top of all of those greens! I love the pale bluish tones too...they give the block balance because they're a different value.

I took a sample of the peacock blue and plugged it into The Color Wizard and here's a list of the monochromatic thread colors/beads/buttons I could use.