The Quilter's Practical Guide to Color
Includes 10 Skill-Building Projects
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- 19,99 €
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- 19,99 €
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Did you know that the biggest struggle for quilters of all types is color selection? Unlock the secrets to winning color combinations from best-selling author Becky Goldsmith of Piece O’ Cake Designs. Learn how every quilt has a foreground and a background, how to use clear versus gray colors—plus other essentials that will shake up your design process. Quilters of all skill levels will appreciate Becky’s practical, easy-to-understand advice. Put your newfound knowledge to the test with 10 pieced and appliquéd projects designed to focus on specific aspects of color. Includes visual examples to explain all color topics.
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"Playing with color is the happiest part of quilting," writes Goldsmith, a cofounder of Piece o'Cake Designs, a quilt specialty firm. Fun, yes, but scary, too, she allows. The actual quilt is what she finds at the end of a process that began some time back, combining colors with designs. Color is the crossroads of science and art, so one of Goldsmith's first lessons is to explain how the color wheel works. With that wheel in hand (or mind), Goldsmith explains monochromatic and complementary color schemes, as well as triadic, quadratic, analogous, and rainbow ones. She includes information about color value and contrast, and considerations about color on fabric, the texture and scale of which can affect how color is perceived. In these lessons, Goldsmith offers blocks of practical advice: for example, organized fabric stashes do matter for making quilts. Although the guide is less about quilt-making and more about designing with color, she offers 10 projects dedicated to building skills, including an ugly-fabric challenge, which teaches the process of "auditioning" colors. The author's motto: "You are the boss of color."
