New Colors for 2009/2010

Quilter’s Newsletter June/July 2009 issue has an article on p. 37 (how’s that for specific!) by Luana Rubin, president of online fabric retailer eQuilter, in which Ms. Rubin forecasts the top 20 hot colors for quilters. She puts them together in a 5×4 grid, so that any two-block color combination makes a trendy color palette. Enjoy the video and the guidance it brings on actually putting these new hues to use in your quilts.  Download the chart listing the new colors here.

Using Prints in a Color Palette

This video answers the most-often asked question I received during my April/May book tour. In fact, at every stop a quilter had this question. I had no idea prints were so challenging to people, and I’m delighted I was able to connect with my readers long enough for us to really have a discussion about color.  In my classes students often bring fabrics that “read as solids,” and avoid busy prints altogether.  Here I offer a solution for coordinating your favorite prints, whether large-scale, small-scale, contemporary or reproduction, in to a color palette for your quilt.

Day Five of the Color Mastery blog tour includes the premiere of my second video over at Michele Foster’s Quilting Gallery blog.  The Create Your Own Color Wheel video is a great color exercise, and the first I do with my students in class.  Check out the video, the downloadable chart, and the chance to win a copy of Color Mastery by creating your own color wheel with your stash and sending me a photo!  This is the second international stop on the blog tour – Michele’s a Canadian girl and her blog is relatively new but has made a big splash in the quilting community.

Don’t forget to chat with me over at LibraryThing, and watch for my blog tour stops next week when I visit a homeschooling blog, applique blog, and art quilt blog.  What an awesome tour!  I hope you’ve enjoyed every day of it.