Quilt by Color

Author: Susan Ache
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1683560493
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
Make beautiful scrap quilts that are as easy as paint by numbers! Best-selling author and Instagram sensation Susan Ache is back to share her secrets for making astonishing scrap quilts. Susan used coordinated Moda Color Cuts bundles for a scrappy yet planned look. You can do the same, or substitute fabrics from your stash. Susan's approach to fabric selection makes it a snap to re-create her coveted, spectacularly scrappy look. Just grab one or two (or more!) Color Cuts bundles to begin. Each bundle contains 12 different prints in a similar colorway. So if you prefer to use your stash, simply use 12 greens or 12 blues or 12 grays that you've got on hand. Either way, you're headed in the right direction to create your own beautifully planned scrap quilts.

Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers

Author: Judy Gauthier
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617458694
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
Discover new possibilities for your fabric stash with this guide featuring 11 easy scrap quilts using ingenious, no-waste cutting techniques! Quilter Judy Gauthier is a master of turning fabric scraps into fabulous quilts. In this practical guide, sheshares her secrets for conquering that mountain of odds and ends. Learn how to piece gorgeous scrap quilts from fabric prints you never thought would go together—even remnants in odd shapes and sizes. Judy’s easy-to-use templates and color theory tips will have you cutting up your scrap surplus and making magic in no time. With these fun and inspiring projects, playing with scraps may become your all-time favorite sport.

The Quilter's Field Guide to Color

Author: Rachel Hauser
Publisher: Lucky Spool
ISBN: 9781940655369
Category : Color in design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Forget the dry color theory! This guide is fun, conversational, practical, and beautifully inspiring. The one-of-a-kind resource for modern quilters includes hands-on exercises with a true workbook approach to help evaluate color choices. A 150-color swatch card is included.

Quilts of a Different Color

Author: Irena Bluhm
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
ISBN: 9781574329551
Category : Quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Quilt first, add color later! This remarkable process will have quilters making wholecloth quilts in an entirely new way. The vibrant and exquisite coloration of these quilts is stunning. Amazingly, it takes only simple tools and easily mastered techniques to achieve the same results for yourself. Everything needed for this colorful process is clearly explained. Start with plain cloth, free-motion quilt your designs, then color and shade the motifs and background areas for a breathtaking new look. You'll love the unique quilts you can make with Irena's guidance!

Splash of Color

Author: Jackie Kunkel
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 1604686065
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Learn to combine a rainbow of bright, saturated colors with crisp black-and-white prints to make amazing quilts. Choose from modern, graphic patterns as well as traditional designs updated by the use of a bold palette. You'll love the high contrast and fun pops of color in these sparkling designs! Confidently create with black and white using Jackie's tips for scale of print and how black prints affect surrounding colors differently than white prints 13 projects from table runners to bed-sized quilts--plus alternate colorways--provide lots of options Piece quilts using various techniques, from easy four patches to paper piecing, curves, and partial seams

Color Play, Second Edition

Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607059657
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
New and improved! The essential guide to the art of color Color. It has the power to set a mood, make a statement, bring a design vividly to life. Now Joen Wolfrom’s classic guide to creating with color has been completely updated to make it easier than ever to enhance your creative work with the beauty of well-chosen colors. Joen covers it all, from color combining basics to how to use nature’s tricks to create an illusion of depth, reflections, shadows, and highlights. Learn the emotional meanings of colors, their physical effects on people, and much more - all richly illustrated with photos of nature and of beautiful quilts. • A feast for the eyes - over 100 new quilt photos show how to use color effectively • A must-have reference; includes swatches of tints, shades, and tones for all 24 colors in the Ives Color Wheel • A spark for your imagination: Try out five different color schemes for each of the 24 colors

Ombré Quilts

Author: Jennifer Sampou
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1617459143
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
Sew modern quilts that illuminate your life with the help of gorgeous ombré fabrics. In this book, designer Jennifer Sampou shows you how to make ombré fabric work for you, with six brilliant quilt projects featuring her Sky Collection fabric. Easy large-scale piecing shows the entire ombré gradation, while smaller-pieced quilts let colors dance and glow in hundreds of hues, tints, and tones! With a single fabric containing subtle shifts from pale to dark, color feels exciting and new again. Take advantage of digitally-printed yardage that’s now widely available, with hundreds of colors printed on a single yard.

Color from the Heart

Author: Gai Perry
Publisher: C&T Publishing
ISBN: 9781571200716
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Contains lessons designed to help quilters use unrelated fabrics in one quilt, enrich a two-color quilt by using other colors and hues, design a quilt inspired by a favorite photo, painting, or decorative object, create an abstract quilt based on a memory picture.

Patchwork Essentials: The Half-Square Triangle

Author: Jeni Baker
Publisher: Lucky Spool
ISBN: 9781940655161
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Provides step-by-step instructions for twelve patchwork projects, along with an inspirational gallery of block designs, and includes techniques for making half square triangle blocks and combining them with complementary pieced blocks.

Quilting Line and Color

Author: Yoshiko Jinzenji
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781596683334
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Looking to fuse Japanese design and modern techniques in your quilting projects? With Quilting Line + Color, you will explore color, shape, stitching, and fabric ideas from internationally known weaver, dyer, fabric artist, teacher, and quilter Yoshiko Jinzenji. Yoshiko brings a fresh, contemporary vision to the quilting scene with more than 30 gorgeous projects, accompanied by precise instructions and detailed illustrations. From bed-size quilts to bags and pillows, you will learn to create innovative pieces while trying out new and traditional techniques. In Quilting Line + Color, Yoshiko delves into the interplay of shape and fabric, set off to striking effect with white fabric and stitching. Her asymmetrical and graphic use of color takes on a fresh, painterly feel. She shares her artistry and philosophy with you as she teaches you how to cut, piece, and stitch a variety of designs--from patchwork and innovative uses of applique and reverse applique to layered transparent fabrics and handstitching. Quilting Line + Color gives you an uncomplicated approach to adventurous yet beautifully balanced quilts.