Get Creative! with M'Liss Rae Hawley: A Beginner's Guide to Color and Design for Quilters [Illustrated] [Paperback]

M'Liss Hawley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2011

A hands-on guide to creative design with M'Liss as your mentor 8 easy projects include lessons in colour and design Tell your own story - re-design blocks in new sizes, proportions, and settings Learn to build themes into your quilts Create an artist's series of quilts based on the easy "Century of Progress" block sewn with squares and rectangles Go beyond piecing - great tips to enhance design by using pin tucks, machine embroidery, thread work, and beading Includes illustrated glossary of colour terms

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing; 1st edition (February 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571202862
• ISBN-13: 978-1571202864
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #997,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely collection of formulas and stories, September 6, 2005

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This review is from: Get Creative! with M'Liss Rae Hawley: A Beginner's Guide to Color and Design for Quilters (Paperback)

Beginners seeking a user-friendly quilter's guide will find the vivid colors and unusual designs of M'Liss Rae Hawley's Get Creative! to be inviting. M'Liss provides only 8 projects to serve as a foundation for gathering skills, but each easy project offers important lessons in color and design and offers enough flexibility for beginners to incorporate their own designs and interests. A lovely collection of formulas and stories.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get Creative, June 12, 2005

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M. Ross Feeney "Doreen" (Sundance,) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Creative! with M'Liss Rae Hawley: A Beginner's Guide to Color and Design for Quilters (Paperback)

This book is excellent. I would recommend starting at the beginning and reading through each project. It is set up as a workbook and one chapter leads into the next. A color wheel is a must and really helps one select the fabric for each project. Not all sales persons in the fabric store have the knowledge that you will obtain from this book. Thanks M'liss. Doreen Meier

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Now comfortable with color, December 9, 2009

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Jo Belmont "Jo Belmont, one saved" (Harrisville (very upstate), NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Get Creative! with M'Liss Rae Hawley: A Beginner's Guide to Color and Design for Quilters (Paperback)

M'liss Rae Hawley's interesting approach to sewing the same block (in size variations if you like, but the same block nonetheless) is an inspired approach to gaining an understanding of color. Yes, she begins as all good artists do, with the standard color wheel. But through her suggestions and methods for re-creating the block, there is the reinforced learning via hands-on results.

I can now go back to some of my beautifully pieced quilts, many of my own pattern design, and see why at some point they seemed to "lose" it ... in every case, it was a color choice that simply should not have been included.

For some, it's natural; for me, I had to learn it and M'liss Rae Hawley's "Get Creative with Color" is just what I needed. Great product.