Colorwash again

This is the other quilt that made it into the AQS show in 1992. It is called "Colorwash-4 Pinwheels". I started making my colorwash quilts in 1990. I had long admired the work by Diedre Amsden of England, having seen the first pieces in a book in 1987. I started gathering the fabrics I thought would work and just started making the quilts. I was asked to teach a workshop on colorwash in early 1991 so I though I had better have more that the one piece the workshop chairman had seen. This was at the time of the Gulf War and I worked on the dining room table in full view of the TV. This was my effort to put some peace in the world. I feel that colorwash quilts are very calming. This one was completed in January, 1991 and it hangs in my bedroom. You can see just a little of the purple wall around the edges.