DWM: two settings and a ribbon

My quilting friend Vic rescued me from last week's design dilemma when she commented, "How would you feel about using a narrow (2", maybe?) cheddar inner border, then the dark blue piano keys, then bind off with cheddar?"  I didn't have any cheddar batik, but I did have red-orange. It would have been easier if I'd switched out the eight red-orange HSTs before I assembled the blocks. :)  The flimsy is 70 x 78.

And I have some piano keys left over, but not too many.

The  Rainbow Scrap Challenge color this month is PINK.  The challenge is to make something, anything, using the monthly color. I'm trying to use units that I have on hand.  I had about 18 four-patch blocks made out of pink/white and red/white HSTs. I pulled pulled 3" pink squares out of the 3" square box, I cut up 3" squares from miscellaneous white-on-white scraps, and made a bunch more HSTs and then four-patches.  How to set them?  

Version #1. 

But what if I set them on point?  And here's how they turned out. 

The flimsy is 40 x 40.  The idea of a border with an appliqued vine has popped into my head.  Hmmm....

And the ribbon? I entered Lakeside Sunset into the General Federation of Women's Clubs-Illinois 10th District Art Show. I won first place! No monetary prize, but a ribbon is always nice to get. (You can read about the quilt here.) 

I'm trying to link up with the RSC here. I'm also joining other quiltmakers at Judy's Patchwork Times  and Beth's  Love Laugh Quilt .