It’s been strange over the past couple of weeks without my color journals. I lovingly packed them off to Quilter’s Newsletter for an excerpt of the book they’re planning for a spring issue. I was hesitant to send them, they are so much a part of me. But I wanted to share the color [...]
Color Mastery in the Quilt Shop
Watch as I give Facebook Fan Annette Franklin a color consultation for the Renaissance quilt. Annette won a one-on-one color consultation, and we went to Dragonfly Quilt Shop in Watkinsville, GA to coordinate her color palette. Annette was really excited because she was able to bust her color rut and go beyond her usual color [...]
Amethyst & Mimosa: Fall’s Hottest Colors
Fall 2009’s hottest colors are Mimosa, a yellow-orange selected by Pantone to cheer up consumers in a down economy, and Amethyst, a violet that is showing up everywhere from textiles to apparel to cosmetics. Not only are these colors popular, they work great together in a color palette. Why? How do you use them? Watch [...]
Master Color Using Only Six Fat Quarters
Maud shares her Renaissance quilt from the Color Mastery workshop I taught this summer in Dawsonville. My students use their color journals to discover the three elements of color and build unique palettes around their favorite color. Even if quilters start out with the same blue, they’ll develop completely individual color palettes. They truly discover [...]
Color Journal at Work
Debbie and I met at FoxTales Book Shoppe during my book tour, and she is a fantastic lady who was so ready to learn about color in quilting. Debbie read Color Mastery and applied the lessons, and look at her results. Wow. Debbie made this beautiful quilt for her niece Karen.
Debbie has never taken one [...]
A Real Book’s Lasting Value
I want my work to last. Longevity is one of the three main goals I have for my books. The other two? A post for another day.
I realized long ago that it took just as long to write a book that was trendy and out of print after two years as it [...]
Color Discoveries
Over at my Quilts and Creativity blog I just posted photos of the adorable quilt shop I taught at last Saturday: The Stitching Barn in Eatonton, GA, near Lake Oconee. It has great retreat potential, so you won’t want to miss it. Here are some photos from the workshops I taught:
Here we’re doing an exercise [...]
Color Mastery Goes to Second Printing After Only Three Months
I’m excited and humbled to announce Color Mastery is already in a second printing. Color Mastery so rocked the quilting world we are going to another print run only three months after its February 2009 debut. That’s unheard of. Most authors never have a book reach a second printing, even after years on the bookstore [...]
Two New Color Mastery Videos Premiere
I’ve been gone so long during my book tour and at spring Quilt Market I wasn’t able to upload a May video, so here are two new videos: one for May and one for June. My goal is to do one video a month on color, and this month I answer the #1 [...]
Color Mastery Teacher Lesson Plans Available
Good news for quilt shop teachers and owners: Color Mastery lesson plans are now available on this website! Click here to download or look under the Quick Links section of the sidebar for the Lesson Plan link. Included in the lesson plans are:
list of twelve months of classes from Color Mastery
lesson plan for each class, [...]
