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Color from the Heart: Seven Great Ways to Make Quilts with Colors You Love
It’s easy to effectively use the colors you love in your quiltmaking. Learn to rely more on your intuitive color choices and less on other people’s opinions of what “looks right.”
Not just another book about traditional color theory! Includes 7 projects for wallhanging-size quilts and lessons that show you how
• Give equal importance to color and fabric personality
• Use 40 unrelated fabrics in 1 small quilt
• Make a 2-color quilt, adding enrichment colors without changing the integrity of the original scheme
• Design a quilt inspired by a favorite photo, painting, or decorative object
• Create a dazzling abstract quilt based on a memory picture
Not just another book about traditional color theory! Includes 7 projects for wallhanging-size quilts and lessons that show you how
• Give equal importance to color and fabric personality
• Use 40 unrelated fabrics in 1 small quilt
• Make a 2-color quilt, adding enrichment colors without changing the integrity of the original scheme
• Design a quilt inspired by a favorite photo, painting, or decorative object
• Create a dazzling abstract quilt based on a memory picture
112 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1999
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November 4, 2023
I bought this book a year ago and have read it twice. Gai brings the principles of color and design to life. This is a classic.
March 19, 2009
Really liked this book. Did some of the projects and hope to do more.
April 29, 2011
This is a great color workshop for quilters. I don't want to turn this book in. I may have to buy it.
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