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** Color **
COLOR CONFIDENCE FOR QUILTERS ($24.95)
by Jinny Beyer
The Quilt Digest Press, 1992
This is Jinny's color system based on the use of a master palette of fabric
colors that span the spectrum. By following the instructions in this book, you
create your own master palette that you can use as a tool for color choices
for all of your future quilting projects. After creating your own color
palette, you will learn how to create countless color schemes just by taking
small sections of the palette, or by rearranging portions of it.
COLOR DESIGN IN PATCHWORK
by Paula Nadelstern
Dover Publications 1991
Explores how color can be used to vary one and the same patchwork
configuration. Depending on the placement of color and the resulting degree of
contrast, different shapes in a pieced pattern are emphasized and visually
linked. Usually some shapes combine to form the main unit of design, while
remaining ones are interpreted as background.
COLOR AND CLOTH: THE QUILTMAKER'S ULTIMATE WORKBOOK ($19.95)
by Mary Coyne Penders
The Quilt Digest Press, 1989
This is another good "color confidence" book. Underrated, probably because of
Jinny Beyer's.
STRIPS THAT SIZZLE
by Margaret Miller
My first B&W quilt was made using this book. It is a book primarily meant for
working in color, but I thought the technique worked extraordinarily well for
black and white. I believe that almost any quilt pattern could be used if you
watch your placement as to shading.
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