Color Mastery : 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts

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.

Maria Peagler is a modern-day renaissance woman. A quilter whose tastes range from fine art to funky traditional, Maria has been quilting for over 16 years and sewing over 30 years. Ironically, when Maria's high school counselor recommended she take home economics as an elective, her response was, "over my dead body." She chose art instead. Now she combines her love of art and color with her love of quilting to make quilts that sing with brilliant color.

Maria has won fine art awards for her quilts, as well as writing awards for several of her books. Color Mastery is Maria's eighth book. Her previous titles were all how-to software application books, and Maria has taken her specialty of making the complex simple and applied it to the frustrating topic of color for quilters. Maria has been published in national magazines such as Personal Computing, Quilt, and Professional Quilter.

Maria has a Journalism degree from The University of Georgia, one of the top-five Journalism colleges in the United States. Her background in training and instructional design for the nation's largest computer training company included managing a courseware development team and training clients from companies such as Coca-Cola, RJ Reynolds, the U.S. Army, the CDC, Oral-B, Abbot Laboratories, BellSouth, AT&T and many others. Maria has held leadership and membership roles in a variety of organizations, including the Society for Technical Communications, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Studio Art Quilters Association and the Independent Book Publishers Association.

Maria is also a watercolorist and devotes herself to more than one medium to continue her mastery of color across the spectrum of artistic disciplines. In her little spare time she enjoys devouring books, daily hikes in the mountains, and spending time with her husband and two sons in the Georgia Appalachians.