The Kitchen Sink

 Dear Readers,

I recently completed a quilt, just before the MQA Fall gathering in Biloxi, MS.  I did not have time to blog about it at that time, so I wanted to tell you about it now.  If I have made you a quilt there is probably some of your fabric in this quilt.  Also every SEC school is represented including Texas and Oklahoma.  

Around the first of this year, I saw a video series on you tube by Terry Rowland.  She was telling her steps to make a color wash quilt.  

Video 1:  https://youtu.be/2UQE5SlOLqg?si=_l8GE0COHLWgPnaF

Video 2:  https://youtu.be/ozxEs1B_Ih0?si=TYoRcEZs0plFCWDV

Video 3:  https://youtu.be/4R9hAE7zXss?si=-kwfyLD-w2_bq04g

So I mentioned this to a few of my Quilty friends to see if anyone was interested in doing it too, it helps to have a friend to hold you accountable!  Well I was on my own.  None seemed interested.  While I was the librarian I was working on Winston Ways so I decided to use my scraps to start making some of the blocks and see how it goes.  So I made about a few dozen or so blocks while there, but I really liked the improve process and the instant satisfaction of getting a block done so fast.  So about once a week I would dig in my scraps and kit up a stack of blocks.  Then I used two cookie sheets to put my blocks by color.  

I worked on it in between other projects and at both of the retreats I went to this year.  

My color wash blocks over on the right, next to Rita or Patti's blocks at Quiltville Inn

On the design board at February Hill Quilting Retreat House in Jonesborough, TN

While I was at one of the retreats, my friend Lauren saw this back and thought it would be perfect, so I had her pick it up for me.... I was sewing while a bunch had gone shopping. 

I used a lot more neutrals than Terry Rowland did, I may do another that is more saturated with color.  

While we were in Biloxi, Lauren helped me stage my quilts for a different view.

This is a super satisfying quilt to make...

Sew on,

Terry