After sharing the final group of blocks for my "Terry" quilt in last week's post, it was time to start arranging all the different colors together on the design wall. I have around 560 blocks and decided to make my quilt 20 blocks wide and 26 or 27 rows high. That should give me a quilt that measures 60" wide x 78" or 81" long.
It seemed easiest to start at the bottom and work my way up. I wanted to keep the darkest blocks around the outside edges and to have the colors create a swirling effect. I started with the purple blocks at the lower right corner.
The blue blocks were added to the left of the purples.
The lower left corner was filled with all the blue-green colors like teal and turquoise.
After that I added the greens along the left side.
That brings me to approximately halfway through my set of blocks. Since green is our assigned color for May at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I'm going to stop there for today. It's getting hard to include all the blocks in my photos as the layout grows. The design wall is in a hallway, and I have to stand in the bathroom and take pictures through the doorway.
I'm sure there will be plenty of rearranging of blocks once I get all the colors up on the wall. I can already see a few in these photos that need to be moved for a better blend of the colors and values. I can't wait to see how it looks with even more colors added to the design wall!
I began making these scrappy little 3" blocks early last year, inspired by Terry Rowland's amazing improv colorwash quilts, which are featured in her series of three YouTube videos. Terry doesn't have a blog or website, but she is active on Facebook and Instagram.
Be sure to check out all of the wonderful scrappy projects at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge every Saturday and Oh Scrap! over at Quilting is more fun than Housework on Sunday.
Happy quilting everyone!
Julie in GA
Wow! All these great colors together, such terrific eye candy! It looks like a city at night, or maybe dawn. Terrific!
ReplyDeleteThat is developing beautifully! I'll enjoy following along as you work on the layout!
ReplyDeleteIt's looking so fabulous!!!
ReplyDeleteThose look wonderful! You must have one of the best colorful hallways in the country!
ReplyDeleteThis is simply stunning--lovely arrangement of blocks, Julie; ))) I love it!!
ReplyDeleteI began making a few green-ey blocks myself maybe a month ago--Terry has come up
with such a great, easy and fun pattern...
I am trying to just use stash, cut offs, leftovers, and precuts also...
I hope to set up a little station in my room and prepare sets for quick sewing....
I hope your Memorial Day Weekend is going great
Hugs, Julierose
I am loving your progress so far! Terry’s videos are great and I especially like her advice for rolling up the design wall so it is protected while sewing the blocks together.
ReplyDeleteWow! I love the deep, bright saturated hues of this quilt. Your lay out is so compelling.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, those blocks together look AMAZING! Thanks for sharing your process of how you plan to put them all together.--TerryK@OnGoingProjects
ReplyDeleteYour patience of working with these small little blocks and then to set them up all this is paying off. This is a wonderful one to look at. I can only imagine how magnificent it must be in person. Enjoy! ;^)
ReplyDeleteA lot of work, but it will be sooo worth it!
ReplyDeleteThat's going to be a gorgeous quilt! Getting the blends just right isn't easy, but looks like you've got lots to work with.
ReplyDeleteLOVE where you're going with this, Julie!
ReplyDeleteWow, it is stunning so far - you are really inspiring me to dig into my scrap bins to make something similar.
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