First one regular quilting cottons with batik applique.
Bottom row, first one is African fabrics, the second one is all Liberty of London Tana Lawn.
I have had several comments (from no reply visitors) and several emails about how to get started with colorwash.
I always encourage quilters to start cutting the squares (or rectangles) as you are working on other projects. Also cut up your scraps whenever you have some time. It would be a monumental task to go through your whole stash and cut a few squares off each fabric all at one time. Yes, that means pressing each fabric if there is a wrinkle or fold mark before you cut. You don't need a lot of any one fabric, just a few pieces of each so you can choose the one that works best. And....you need hundreds of fabrics to work from. Most of my pieces have 200 or more different fabrics in them, some as many as 400.
Busy prints work best, multicolor prints work well. You need a big variety of colors. Only the very lightest and very darkest can be plainer prints, similar to tone on tone but with action or texture to the print. Too plain and they look like a flat spot in the colorwash. Here is the newest photo again so you can click and enlarge and look at the fabrics.
I will be offering some starter packs of both rectangles and squares soon. I need to get them sorted and organized first.