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Color Magic for Quilters: Absolutely the Easiest, Most Successful Method for Choosing Colors and Fabrics to Create Quilts You'll Love [Paperback]

Ann Seely (Author), Joyce Stewart (Author)
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January 15, 1999
Color Magic for Quilters is the ultimate resource for anyone who has ever felt unsure about choosing and combining colors and fabrics. This goof-proof approach guarantees color success. Your color creativity will grow by leaps and bounds with the help of these quilter-friendly features:

* 24 easy-to-understand color formulas for combining colors and fabrics
* Over 250 quilt blocks with exciting color and fabric combinations--a never-ending source of inspiration for all your projects
* Simple color terms that are easy to remember and use
* Block makeovers that show how to make good quilts even better

Plus! Use your color confidence in 12 terrific quilt projects with clear and simple directions.


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"Finally, a sensible, clear-cut approach to color selection for quiltmaking. This book is full of ideas and practical color formulas to inspire your latest quilt projects."--Georgia J. Bonesteel, Creator and host of "Lap Quilting" on PBS television and author of Patchwork Potpourri

"Ann and Joyce have transformed the basic color theories into simple language that any quilter can understand. This approach to color is sure to help you in your color decision."--Jean Wells, Owner of The Stitchin' Post in Sisters, Oregon, and author of Patchwork Quilts Made Easy

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Color Magic for Quilters

Color Magic for Quilters is the ultimate resource for anyone who has ever felt unsure about choosing and combining colors and fabrics. This goof-proof approach guarantees color success. Your color creativity will grow by leaps and bounds with the help of these quilter-friendly features:

* 24 easy-to-understand color formulas for combining colors and fabrics
* Over 250 quilt blocks with exciting color and fabric combinations--a never-ending source of inspiration for all your projects
* Simple color terms that are easy to remember and use
* Block makeovers that show how to make good quilts even better

Plus! Use your color confidence in 12 terrific quilt projects with clear and simple directions.

"Finally, a sensible, clear-cut approach to color selection for quiltmaking. This book is full of ideas and practical color formulas to inspire your latest quilt projects."
--Georgia J. Bonesteel
Creator and host of "Lap Quilting" on PBS television and author of Patchwork Potpourri

"Ann and Joyce have transformed the basic color theories into simple language that any quilter can understand. This approach to color is sure to help you in your color decision."
--Jean Wells
Owner of The Stitchin' Post in Sisters, Oregon, and author of Patchwork Quilts Made Easy

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Sisters Joyce Stewart and Ann Seely have won awards in both national and regional quilt contests, including the Museum of American Folk Art's Great American Quilt Contest and the Land's End and Good Housekeeping's All-American Quilt Contest. In 1992, they co-authored their first book, Sisters and Quilts: Threads That Bind. They teach at quilt guilds and shows accross the United States and have discovered that thier class "Color Magic for Quilters" is always a big hit!

Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books; 1st edition (January 15, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0875969852
  • ISBN-13: 978-0875969855
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #304,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Take control of your color choices, December 13, 1999
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E. Carley "Coastermom" (The birthplace of flight) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Color Magic for Quilters: Absolutely the Easiest, Most Successful Method for Choosing Colors and Fabrics to Create Quilts You'll Love (Paperback)
This book lays out a method of choosing color combinations based on a color wheel. As a quilter, you have probably been doing this all along without realizing it. I've usually found a calico I like, and then choose the complimentary fabrics. That has worked for me because I was choosing calicoes that had a definite harmony in them.

This book will help you become even bolder in your choices, and you will see harmonies where you don't expect them. Also helpful is the "color workshop" at the back of the book that can help you decide what colors to choose based on the mood you are looking for.

All in all, a fun and enlightening read.

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Magic, May 5, 2003
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Ms. Peggy A. Drechsler (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Magic for Quilters: Absolutely the Easiest, Most Successful Method for Choosing Colors and Fabrics to Create Quilts You'll Love (Paperback)
I have a number of quilt pattern books, but the quilts I made were "blah". This book helped me learn how to combine fabric colors, values and textures to make eye-catching quilts. Plus there were full-size patterns included that serve as examples of the principles taught in the book, and quilts range from quick-and-easy rotary strip quilts to complex paper pieced quilts. In addition, the "block makeover" double-page section gave me further insight in the difference the colors, values and textures can make in the finished blocks. I got hundreds of color combination ideas from this one book...it is now my favorite quilt book!
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well laid out and action oriented, August 28, 2003
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Mrs. Cheryl E. Stewart (ARMIDALE, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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I have several colour books now and this is the one to which I refer most often. I like the way the author has laid out the colour wheel and as I work I leave the relevant wheel open so I can check what I am doing.
her projects range from easy to thought provoking and I have found them very good instructions to use with my patchwork students.
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the first and perhaps simplest color harmony is called One Color because it uses just one color on the color wheel. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fabric color wheel, kaleidoscope piece, middle color, color harmonies, star blocks, color harmony, quilt top, opposite colors, paper foundation, seam line
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Repeat Steps, First Cut, Assembly Diagram, Backing Diagram, Color Options Within This Harmony Red, Cut Light, Color Options Within This Harmony Orange, Finished Block Size, Harmony Featured, Spaced Color Harmonies Two, Four Points, Garden Maze, Grandma Hazel, Hula Hoop, Mitered Borders, Number of Blocks, Reverse Make
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