Visual Coloring: A Foolproof Approach to Color-Rich Quilts

by Joen Wolfrom

Overview

Color Inspiration to Make Every Quilt a Knockout. Develop a keen color sense with Joen’s easy visual coloring technique. Learn to use this foolproof technique to select your quilt’s colors and fabrics. Do you get stuck when choosing colors and fabrics for your quilts? Joen comes to your rescue with this amazingly simple, practically foolproof technique. Using visual coloring, you’ll learn to select colors you love in nature and duplicate the effect in your work. You’ll find tons of photographs, fabric-swatch examples, and gallery quilts using this color selection technique, plus 5 simple and beautiful quilt projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607053118
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	11/05/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Joen Wolfrom has been a quiltmaker since 1974 and is in demand around the world as a teacher and speaker for her expertise in color and textile design. She has authored twelve books and products and owns a pattern company. Joen lives in Fox Island, WA.

Editorial Reviews

While in Color Play: Easy Steps to Imaginative Color in Quilts, Wolfrom encouraged quilters to learn elements of color theory, here she speaks to quilters who wish to go straight to choosing colors without any knowledge of color theory. Prospective quilt designers, she instructs, should create a clipping file of color photographs (e.g., of nature, decorative pottery, jewelry) from which they should select only those photos with visually pleasing or emotionally evocative colors; then the photos should be enlarged in order to bring out colors that might not otherwise be noticeable. This will inspire them in picking colors and textures with which to design an original quilt. Although the idea is not revolutionary, quilters will learn much from Wolfrom's gallery of quilts and can practice this technique by duplicating any of her five projects. For most quilting collections.

—Jan Zlendich

Library Journal

This book, along with Joen’s Ultimate 3-in-1 Color Tool, is the quintessential tool for quilters who want to learn more about color and how to apply that knowledge to your quilts. Filled with amazing photographs, color samples and exercises for choosing colors, this book will change they way you look at color in quilting. -- Generation Q Magazine; September 2012

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