Anyone Working on the Color Wash Quilt?
 

After watching the video, I dragged out my scraps. Unlike the video, I just found my 4 sides and pinned them together. After making about 100+-, I then paired them with the center contrast. I'm currently stitching them together. Unlike the instructor, I have my iron nearby. I think it is easier to work with crisp pieces. Next step will be squaring them. I didn't know how fun scrappy is to create! I hope it looks half as good as hers.

It will be beautiful, I'm sure! I am looking forward to the picture!

Please show pictures. I thought it was amazing. I did a quilt with the same pattern squares from a jellyroll, but this is even more creative.

Who ever mentioned this video to us, thank you. I've downloaded and just watched all 3 videos plus her video on the binding board last night on my TV. So much more comfortable than in front of my PC screen. Anyway, I showed bits and pieces of this video to a friend that stops by on Wednesday and she was so excited about it so I'll be copying the vidoes onto a thumbstick for her as she's not as apt to computer stuff. The last pattern I showed her on Facebook, the Stash Challenge 2023, I copied for her and since then she's made copies for about a half dozen friends in her church quilting group so I have a feeling these videos will be smash to them also.

I ordered my doll pins and got them yesterday in the mail so I can make my own binding board. I thought if I added an extra needle a little farther to the right and pushed the binding thru it too, that would help keep the binding straight as it went thru under the iron. Will have to find a thinner board after watching another one of her binding board videos as there are a couple of them it seems.

I'm probably 1/2 way finished. I put out a call for batik scraps to make mine with, I didn't have any batiks and it gives me a chance to work with a new fabric without building a stash.

Mine was meant to be a traveling project for this fall, but I kept getting into the box to 'make just a few'... now it's my main project and I've kitted a different traveler project ;)

Can someone please post the link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UQE...l=TerryRowland is the first one. All the others can be found on youtube after you open this one.

I see a lot of color wash quilts in our future!

I have made exactly one block, but have several more cut. A slow start, but I plan to use my smallish scraps this way.

I followed a dear quilter's blog for many years & she specializes in color wash quilts. She was always so kind to share her techniques & tips in how she made her beautiful quilts. She passed away in 2021 but her daughter had so many requests to keep her blog up on the internet that she has allowed it to stay in hopes to help others with their quilting. Attached is the link to her blog. You can see at the top that she has a color wash quilt tutorial (3 parts). I hope this helps those of you who are making color wash quilts this year. I love color wash quilts & can't wait to see what y'all are making this year.

https://stitchintherapy.blogspot.com/

Thanks for this link. I can see hours spent in watching the videos!

What rabbit hole have you sent me down?? I've never heard/seen Terry Rowland before, and now I've just spent hours watching her videos! I'm thinking I have my next new shiny object to pursue. Thank you!!

Great blog!! What a gift to all of us to leave behind. Thank you for sharing this link!!

I've completed about a dozen blocks! I love blocks on point so that is how I'm placing them on the design wall for now. I plan to sort colors when done!

Just saying, the Stitch Therapy blog linked to showcases watercolor quilts, which is a different technique...or outcome. Made up of usually 2 or 2.5" squares going dark to light, often forming a recognizable image. Color wash are 5 patch squares, generally trimmed to 3.5". Not being picky ;) but there is a real difference.

KalamaQuilts gets the credit for the video in her thread: https://www.quiltingboard.com/search...t319861-3.html She has a picture of some of her blocks in there. Watch out.... you're going to get hooked on this!

aashley -- you need to post pictures of some of your beauties. Are you making them in 3" size, too?

KalamaQuilts -- great summary of the project differences! Thank you! I wonder if we are going to get another rabbit hole dug with this watercolor quilt blog.

Thanks for this info. I didn't realize that there was a difference.

funny story...I made a watercolor quilt when they "went viral" in the 90's :) I entered it in the local fair, the comments were "shows fading". They weren't very up on what was going on in the quilt world. They also hung a friends quilt that year with the back side on view, not the stunning front.
also attaching two samples of colorwash quilts. I LOVE being a quilter!! :)
edited to add the last 2 aren't mine.

Just started making a few blocks with my scraps. Very fun!

I have been using the Bonnie Hunter scrap saver system, but usually don’t do what she recommends, which is to cut the scraps while you are cutting the pieces you are using. As a result, I end up with a bin that needs to be pressed and cut into the right sizes to store with its mates. Terry Rowland’s system allows me to generally skip the pressing part because the cutting doesn’t need to as accurate. It also feels more productive because I am kiting up a block, not just sending the scraps to storage.

One question. Are any of you making “white” blocks or just “colors”? I have a lot of “white” left over from Chilhowie and others. My initial thought is to just go with “colors” on this one and then maybe make something “low volume” with all those “whites” on the next one. Thoughts?

no reason why you couldn't, that is how variations get born. The center of the red/black/white one above gives an example of neutrals.I saw one yesterday in oranges.
I don't press until the block is made but if my scraps were Really wrinkly, I probably would, just me. After a quilter's lifetime of precision piecing I am loving the improv of whack and sew.

I cleaned 3 layers of quilts off my working wall this morning, and while I have a brief space :) I grabbed a pile of blues to see how I was coming along. This is just a fast placement, I have tons more blues, but I'm liking it!

Kalama: your start is lovely! Like you, I waited to press until the block was made. I am trimming right after pressing. These are so great.

I recently discovered her and absolutely love her creations! I'm going to start one.
Kalama- yours is lovely!

Generally, I used prints for the outer pieces and solid-ish for contrasting center. I trimmed a few, but found it better to trim later. I have been invited to a group sewing day at the Guild that I just joined! Saved trimming for that event. Notice the block on the design wall to the far right. I had to add another piece to make it big enough to trim! Shouldn't matter!

aashley -- these are beautiful! Have fun at the group sewing. Save your trim scraps to make crumb houses or a crumb quilt of some type in case you need yet another project to work on...

Hi all, this remains my fave scrapbuster approach. I tried so many and most were fussy and a lot of dreary work.

Terry's method is easy, no measuring necessary, can do it on a lap desk while I watch tv.

Thanks Terry!!

BTW her other videos are really helpful too. I made her binding board for my sister for her birthday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fhmMH2pBUM

ashley, I lust for your scraps, too fun ;)

Very enjoyable. I’m kitting up a bunch of blocks, then chain piecing 4 to 6 at a time. Then pressing after each block is finished (or I think it’s finished— some have needed that added strip to get to size), then trimming. I’ve gone through my totally unorganized scraps and some others. Of course, no apparent dent has yet been made in my scrap bins.

oOoooo pretty! I set my basket of kitted up stacks on the floor yesterday and my jack russell grabbed a big mouthful and took off knocking over the basket. :) So I'll kit my kits as I sew along.

oh no! I never use whites to use them up! Especially if you are planning on doing anymore of the Bonnie's quilts! Those "whites" are just too precious! LOL

Too funny!

Yes. Her video showed up just recently in my Facebook feed and I was captivated. So, now I am hooked. Have been organizing my scraps...hit Big Lots to buy a bunch of the shoebox size plastic tubs, so I could sort them into color groups, as previously all my scraps were in one big bin. And now I am starting to work through them to make "kits". I had also done a Google search about them, which is how I found this board and question, which prompted me to join so I could work along other folks doing the same thing.

CharisW, welcome! A Google search helped me find this site! Best thing ever! My CW project is ongoing between new projects! I took my first 2 sewing classed this month and have been sidetracked!

I found Terry a few months ago through another YouTuber and have wanted to do a colorwash….I am currently at about 250 3 1/2” blocks now. It goes so fast. I am definitely going to need a recommended tablecloth for the layout of this. I’m not seeing a huge dent in my scrap bags, though. I’m trying to use fabrics only once. Whoever is using batiks…those will be gorgeous. I don’t have batiks so we will see how this looks at layout time.

probably me using batiks, I didn't have any either so reached out to buy scraps. I have better than 400 blocks finished, but got sidetracked by my temperature quilt which should be finished today.
I Love making the colorwash blocks, the improv of it is so freeing.

Kalama, a question. Did you sort shades as you completed the blocks, or wait til the end? I thought I'd wait til the end, but yours seems so organized!

when I ran out of kitted up blocks I sorted all the trimmed finished blocks into color stacks and then counted those into stacks of 20. Mostly because I didn't really want to end up with a giant purple blob or something. And I want to know when I'm getting close to the 700 needed for the full quilt. Not so much organized as a lazy bum :)

And every day I sew I'm grateful for my full size working wall to lay stuff out on. No way could I sort on the floor like Terry shows herself doing in her video. Ouch times 100

So, I blasted through my scrap bags for the first run-thru…now expanding on each color’s varying shades. This is 270 of them, so far. Little over Half-way…..really enjoying the No-fuss sewing…

Wow! I can't wait to see what magic you make with those blocks in your color wash quilt.

Looks great! They really are perfect for those times when your brain just wants a little rest.

I will admit I bought some “scraps” the other day (to make a free shipping minimum) with the justification to myself that I could use them for this project. Sigh. Not the attitude that will clear out the scrap bins.