My Aunt Lulu did the state birds in the 20's when she was 10 years old. Each week one would be published in the paper. Lu used blue for all of them. It was sashed with a similar shade of blue and was beautiful. It had never been quilted so a few years ago I had the honor of hand quilting the quilt. Aunt Lu is now 98 and doing great but had to give up her apartment last year due to 2 broken hips,broke one and 6 months later broke the other. As you can tell I am very proud of her. She has had an interesting life in her 98 years.