Susan Shie, Professional Quilter’s 2008 Teacher of the Year, art quilter, and owner of Turtle Moon Studios, joins us today to review Color Mastery. Susan’s work is well-known throughout the art quilting community, with her painted and stitched narratives of her daily life. She’s just completed a series of Obama Quilts that have been on [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
A Night to Remember
Standing room-only last Friday evening at Sew Memorable for the Color Mastery book launch party. Jeanne’s team was so sweet and excited! They made homemade baby chocolate eclairs and weekend employees took off their day jobs to work in the shop all day to help Jeanne set up. Friends, quilters, even both [...]
Color Mastery for Bee Groups/Book Clubs
Are you a member of a bee group or mini-group? A book club? I’m a member of both, and I love the inspiration, friendship, and intimate setting of the small groups that meet in our homes. I’d be delighted to visit your small group, either in person, or by Skype.
How does it work? Here are [...]
NQA’s Quilting Quarterly: All About Color
The National Quilting Association’s (NQA) Winter issue of their publication, The Quilting Quarterly, is all about color. They did a lovely review of Color Mastery, and have articles on color that really get you thinking. This issue does not disappoint: it’s filled with excellent articles, quilter profiles, gorgeous photography, and the latest events in quilting. [...]
Round Up of Color Mastery Winners from Blog Tour
I had so much fun on the Color Mastery blog tour over the last two weeks. Thank you to the bloggers who participated, and to the readers who so enthusiastically bought the book, downloaded the sample chapters, color wheel chart, and homeschool unit study, who watched the Color Mastery videos, listened to Annie’s Smith’s [...]
Developing Your Unique Color Vision in a Journal
How can you achieve your own color style, unique and stunning every time? Know yourself first. Don’t be disappointed by using other people’s color choices in your quilts. And rote practice of color theory without combining it with your personal preferences results in quilts that look like a color study.
To use color effectively, you need [...]
Reader Color Wheels from Quilting Gallery – Both Winners!
Last week I stopped by Michele Foster’s Quilting Gallery blog and premiered my Color Wheel video, offering a giveaway to those who made their own color wheels and sent photos to me. Only two Quilting Gallery readers took advantage of the offer, so guest what girls? You both win!!! Just like on Ellen DeGeneres’ [...]
Color Mastery Visits Going to Pieces Blog
Day Nine of the Color Mastery Blog Tour finds me at Diane’s Going to Pieces blog. Diane is a multi-talented lawyer, art quilter, mom, avid reader, and owner of the Art Quilters web ring. Today Diane reviews the book, and tomorrow we chat about how color is essential for art quilters and the one tool [...]
Color Mastery Hits Local – and Annie’s Winner!
This week the local papers did articles on the book. The first is print edition only, but their website offers a photo of me, and more importantly, you can see my stash in the background (scroll down and it’s on the left sidebar). It’s well organized, but not huge by any means.
And here’s the [...]
Color Mastery Visits All About Applique Blog
Day Seven of the Color Mastery blog tour finds me at Kay Mackenzie’s All About Applique blog, where we dish about writing, quilting, and artist’s secrets of achieving outstanding color. Kay is an author of several books on applique, and has an upcoming book from Martingale on applique to be released next month (ssh – [...]
