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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Coming to a Quilt Shop Near You
Announcing the Color Mastery Georgia Book Tour! I’ll be visiting ten locations across the state April 21 – May 5, so save those dates. Come out and see me at your local quilt shop, guild, or bookstore. Here are the dates and locations:
April 21: Apple Country Quilt Guild, Ellijay
April 23: East Cobb Quilt Guild [...]
Susan Shie Reviews Color Mastery
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 [...]
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 [...]
