Color Mastery: 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts - Softcover

Peagler, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981627706 ISBN 13: 9780981627700

Publisher: Willow Ridge Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Winner, Benjamin Franklin award for Best Craft Book of 2010.

Over 50 Proven Techniques to Achieve Brilliant Color with Your Stash Transcend "matching to the focus fabric" and instead develop your own imaginative color combinations. Whether you are a traditional quilter trapped in a color rut or an art quilter looking for a deeper understanding of color, this book is your essential guide for a revolutionary new way of approaching color in your quilts.
Join Maria Peagler, award-winning fine art quilter, author, and instructor, as she teaches you:
* How to develop your unique color vision in a journal
* How to see color in your stash and in the quilt shop the way artists do
* How to make any color work with any other color
* Where to get innovative ideas for fresh, unique color combinations
* How to create a more versatile and color-rich stash
* How to make challenging colors play well with others
* How to master artist's secrets of achieving sophisticated color relationships

Includes 6 easy yet elegant quilt projects, plus 3 bonus projects!
Maria Peagler has won awards for both her fine art quilts and her writing. Her background as a watercolor artist and an instructional designer for the nation's top training company enables her to take a fresh approach to color coaching for quilters.

About this title

Book Description

Maria is a gifted teacher who understands your fears and frustrations with quilt color combinations. She does a beautiful job of merging the normally dry process of learning color principles with intuitive exercises that let you relax and play.

From the Publisher

How is Color Mastery Different?

What makes Color Mastery unique among a sea of quilting books on color? Most quilting books contain projects followed by a gallery of quilts using the same pattern, in different color combinations. Those books make great eye candy, but poor teachers. Why? They offer only:

* color advice with projects so complex quilters rarely try them

* easy quilts that gloss over the color relationships

Color Mastery takes a unique approach never before seen in a quilting book. I've taken artistic principles, coupled them with simple quilts, for gorgeous projects any quilter can make. With Color Mastery, you can take ordinary fabrics already in your stash and turn them into simple quilts with sophisticated color relationships. How?

* quick exercises that you complete with your fabrics, instead of looking at complicated mock-up blocks using fabrics you don't own

* discover artist's secrets and apply them to quilts, whether traditional or art quilts

* make complicated color theory simple and accessible through fun exercises that give you "play" time with your stash

* easy, quick, quilts that incorporate the color principles for stunning results

* art quilters can take the color curriculum portion of the book (nine chapters worth!) and apply it to their own designs

* bring the joy back to working your stash again

* go beyond just the step-by-step projects contained in most quilting books to give you a deep understanding and mastery of color

Is Color Mastery What I've Been Looking For?

* Are you a quilter who longs for fresh quilts from the fabrics in your stash?

* Are you an experienced quilter tired of making cookie-cutter quilts from kits, bundles, or other people's color ideas?

* Are you a quilting teacher who needs a new, hands-on approach to teaching color that works in a classroom environment?

* Are you a quilt shop owner who needs a staff more knowledgeable about color advice for your clients?

Who Color Mastery Isn't For?

* Quilters who don't want to think about the colors. You prefer "make-it and take-it" type projects

* Quilters who don't own a fabric stash

* Quilters for whom the thought of using a color wheel gives them hives

* Quilters who want advanced projects that take months to make with intricate piecing or applique

* Quilters who just want another project idea, not looking to "learn" anything about color

A Revolutionary New Way of Approaching Color in Quilting!

Who has time to learn color theory? You do. Just look at what you can start doing today with Color Mastery:

In one hour, you can:

* create a color journal

* make a color wheel from your stash

* see limitless color possibilities by starting with one color and using six different color harmonies (what Peagler calls "no-fail color prescriptions")

* give your fabrics an Extreme Stash Makeover, by seeing the colors in your stash the way artists do

In one evening, you can:

* make several color wheels from "collections" in your stash, such as reproductions, batiks, or thirties prints

* create a fabric palette in your color journal before you start a project

* make one of six quilt projects or two bonus projects, each demonstrating artistic color principles by breathing new life into your fabric stash

When you want to take your time:

* make your own custom color harmony

* make one of the quilting projects that takes more time, like Cottage Garden

* gather your best quilting buddies and follow the Color Mastery retreat outlined in the Appendix

Edition details

• Publisher: Willow Ridge Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0981627706
• ISBN 13: 9780981627700
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100