Transparency Quilts
10 Modern Projects; Keys for Success in Fabric Selection from the Modern Quilts Studio
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
This follow-up to Quilts Made Modern delivers "a unique lesson in applying color theory to fabrics, patterns and quilts" (Portland Modern Quilting Guild).
Learn how to use traditional piecing techniques to create quilts with layered translucent effects from the husband-and-wife team behind Modern Quilt Studio. By distinguishing and balancing the subtleties of color in your fabrics, you can achieve remarkable results. Discover how the visual relationships between different colors make all the difference in your quilts.
· Master the illusion of transparency with ten quilt projects, each with instructions for three sizes—wall, lap, and bed.
· Design experts Ringle and Kerr show you how to select fabrics for striking, modern results.
· These quilts have sophisticated style with a soft, graphic look to update any home décor.
"Patterns replicating tartan and madras are most effective. The couple's writing style is practical, edged a bit with cutesy." —Publishers Weekly
"Color is the main event—and the technique using color in Transparency Quilts is quite magical . . . if you are an adventurous beginner or above—these quilts will give you a new way of thinking about and using color that you might just love." —Daisy and Jack (One Stitch at a Time)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Transparency quilts are particular kinds of quilts: they affect the look of layering with translucent chiffon over cotton, the fabric-sandwich version of encyclopedia pages with overlays or scrims in scene design. With transparency quilts, the additional details and information result from careful selection and juxtaposition of color. That's why the husband-and-wife team of Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr (Quilts Made Modern), co-founders of FunQuilts.com, spend time in the book's first part defining and employing such color terms as "value" and "saturation." Unfortunately, words on a page, even accompanied by Figs. 1 through 1,000, may not serve as well as personal instruction to explain why "yellow plus blue doesn't have to equal green." After covering how to create transparencies, Ringle and Kerr discuss how to select fabric and what doesn't work and why. The second half of the book offers 10 patterns, including tips, skill grades, machine-quilting suggestions, and instructions for assembly. Patterns replicating tartan and madras are most effective. The couple's writing style is practical, edged a bit with cutesy. 340 illus.
