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    Color Essentials-Crisp & Vibrant Quilts: 12 Modern Projects Featuring Precut Solids
    Color Essentials-Crisp & Vibrant Quilts: 12 Modern Projects Featuring Precut Solids
    Color Essentials-Crisp & Vibrant Quilts: 12 Modern Projects Featuring Precut Solids
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    Color Essentials-Crisp & Vibrant Quilts: 12 Modern Projects Featuring Precut Solids

    By Amanda Murphy

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    This must-have book will free you from preconceived notions about color and inspire creativity. You will learn to experiment with solids and gain a deep understanding of how color functions. Perfect for both the adventurous beginner and skilled intermediate quilter, the 12 modern quilt projects will show you how to create fresh combinations, vibrancy, and movement using different hues. To make the projects accessible, affordable, and stunning, the author has developed a pre-cut package of Robert Kaufman Fabrics that can be used in conjunction with this book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781607057109
    Color Essentials-Crisp & Vibrant Quilts: 12 Modern Projects Featuring Precut Solids
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    Amanda Murphy

    Amanda Murphy is a translator and an associate professor of English and translation studies at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.

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      Book preview

      Color Essentials-Crisp & Vibrant Quilts - Amanda Murphy

      ...

      A RAINBOW of Possibilities

      Unlock the mysteries of color with fabric!

      Color, Color, Glorious Color!

      For many quilters, there is nothing more exciting than a pile of brightly colored fabrics. There are so many hues and an almost infinite number of ways to combine them! Freeing yourself of any preconceived notions about color allows you to discover different combinations and really push the creative envelope. Yet the unlimited possibilities can also be intimidating at times. This book seeks to address these issues.

      As much as I love prints, I have always admired the graphic quality of antique quilts comprised of solids. The Amish were particularly adept at producing quilts with simple yet dynamic graphic qualities. Experimenting with solids results in a deep understanding of how color functions. It is my hope that you will be inspired to experiment with some of these projects and apply the knowledge and confidence you gain to future projects.

      We are so lucky to have the wide variety of fabrics that are available today. In fact, it is the beautiful range of hues available that inspired Color Essentials—Crisp & Vibrant Quilts. I have worked closely with Robert Kaufman Fabrics to develop precut packages of fabric that allow you to experiment with color and produce projects that are affordable, individual, and beautiful.

      Let’s Get Started ...

      Most quilters are familiar with the color wheel and its three primary colors of red, yellow, and blue, with the secondary colors of green, violet, and orange nestled in between. Tertiary colors comprise primary colors mixed with secondary colors. All the pure colors featured on a color wheel are referred to as hues. Adding white to a hue produces a tint; adding black produces a shade.

      Colors directly across the color wheel from each other are referred to as complementary. (Interestingly, the darker colors we see in nature are usually reproduced by adding a touch of a complementary color to a specific hue, rather than by adding black.) Complementary colors can produce very lively and dynamic designs. Colors next to each other on the color wheel are referred to as analogous. Analogous palettes can be quite beautiful and restful.

      This color wheel is unique—it shows how the available Kona palettes fit into the range of possible colors. Look for more information on Kona palettes on pages 20–27.

      The color wheel and its Kona equivalents

      Color Schemes

      One way to start thinking about the possibilities of a quilt’s design is to consider a color palette that you might like to work with. Perhaps you would like to work with a warm palette of yellows, oranges, and maybe even a touch of pink or green?

      Or perhaps a cool palette might be more to your taste, with soft blues and cool purples?

      Note how pink and green tones can work with either a cool or warm palette. Colors aren’t always strictly warm or cool; it is how they work in combination with other colors that defines them.

      By choosing a light background that matches the general color scheme, you can create a soft look, as in City Lights (page 57) or Iridescence (page 89). Electing to use a hue on the opposite side of the color wheel from the general color scheme will produce a dynamic look, as evidenced by Spring Blooms (page 121).

      You can also choose to use hues that are adjacent on the color wheel to produce a soft look with an analogous color scheme.

      Adding in a hue from the opposite side of the color wheel from the general color scheme adds movement and interest. I usually refer to this as a poison hue because it doesn’t fit into the general color scheme, but adding it into the mix can yield dynamic results. It can bring a great deal more visual interest to the quilt, and used sparingly in areas where extra impact is needed, it can draw the viewer’s eye from one element to another.

      Example of color palettes with corresponding poison hues

      Kona Palettes

      Kona precuts make playing with color easy and affordable! Pairing them with different background colors allows you to experiment with an infinite variety of color combinations.

      The majority of projects in this book are made from roll-ups (2½ × width of fabric strips), charm packs (5 × 5 squares), or fat quarter bundles (18 × 20" pieces), juxtaposed against a variety of background fabrics.

      Kona precuts come in the Sunrise palette, which covers the warmer side of the color wheel; the Sunset palette, which covers the cooler side of the color wheel; and the Bright palette, which includes selections from the entire color wheel. The Pastel palette also includes selections from the entire color wheel, but they have been lightened considerably. All of the projects in this book are made using the first three palettes. The wonderful thing about these palettes is that you can be assured that the colors in them will work beautifully together. Completely new looks can be achieved by varying

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