I am off and running with a new quilt design to be revealed next year sometime. I am busy working with coming up with a pieced background that will resemble a beach. There will be applique on top of this. I have about 20-25 pieces of a variety of shades of tan-ivory-light brown batiks (yes, I just love working with batiks, especially for the applique work). Now, I don't just want to run these in boring old stripes of graded color from the lightest to the darkest (where they will meet the "water"), so what should I do?? Here's three concepts I have drafted up, but I am looking for any other block suggesitons too (hint). The only requirement is that there is not too much piecing on the background because I want the applique to be the focus of the quilt.
1. wonky 9-patches ...not my favorite, but less expected than perhaps my next possibility.
2. storm at sea layout. Now this has nice movement, but I sort of think it is the expected choice for a quilt that will have a "sea" motif.
3. kaleidoscope stars...with a few slightly different stars thrown in.
I think that this is my inclination thus far, but I'd like to hear your suggestions for other patterns to look at.
1. wonky 9-patches ...not my favorite, but less expected than perhaps my next possibility.
2. storm at sea layout. Now this has nice movement, but I sort of think it is the expected choice for a quilt that will have a "sea" motif.
3. kaleidoscope stars...with a few slightly different stars thrown in. 
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