Welcome to Day Three of my Social Media Scavenger Hunt to celebrate Color Mastery being a Benjamin Franklin award finalist for Best Craft Book of the Year. If you missed Days One & Two, no worries: I’ll have links at the bottom of this post to direct you to the rules and [...]
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Social Media Scavenger Hunt: Day Two
Welcome to Day Two of my Social Media Scavenger Hunt to celebrate Color Mastery being a Benjamin Franklin award finalist for Best Craft Book of the Year. If you missed Day One, no worries: I’ll have links at the bottom of this post to direct you to the rules and the first day’s clue.
Look for [...]
Color Journals – I Miss You!
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 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 [...]
