Color from the Heart: Seven Great Ways to Make Quilts with Colors You Love - Paperback

by Gai Perry (Author)

It's easy to effectively use the colors you love in your quiltmaking. Learn to rely more on your intuitive color choices and less on other people's opinions of what "looks right."

Not just another book about traditional color theory! Includes 7 projects for wallhanging-size quilts and lessons that show you how to:

- Give equal importance to color and fabric personality
- Use 40 unrelated fabrics in 1 small quilt
- Make a 2-color quilt, adding enrichment colors without changing the integrity of the original scheme
- Design a quilt inspired by a favorite photo, painting, or decorative object
- Create a dazzling abstract quilt based on a memory picture

Author Biography

Gai Perry is a quilter, teacher, and author of several books published by C&T. She focuses on the effective use of color and fabric in traditional-style quilts and has developed an original quilt design style she named "The Art of the Impressionist Landscape." Gai lives in Davis, California.