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Color for the Terrified Quilter is a lighthearted text which shows clear illustrations and beautiful photos to learn about color in easy-to-understand language. 11 projects will turn you into an expert on using the color wheel—Take the mystery out of color! Ionne McCauley and Sharon Pederson offer plain talk and simple lessons - there is a step-by-step way to choose color for quilts.

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Color For The Terrified Quilter
Plain Talk, Simple Lessons, 11 Projects

Author: Ionne McCauley and Sharon Pederson
Pages 96
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L30830
Weight: 1.1 lb
MSRP: $~~26.95~~

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Color choices don't have to be intuitive, instinctive, or inborn —there is a step-by-step way to choose color for quilts And this fun book will show you how! Find practical techniques and guidelines for making the perfect color choices in any quilt.

Find lighthearted text, clear illustrations, and beautiful photos to learn about color in easy-to-understand language
Follow easy exercises and 11 projects; they'll turn you into an expert on using the color wheel
Learn how to make quick mock-up blocks before committing fabrics to the sewing machine

Take the mystery out of color!

Instruction Page

About the Authors

Ionne (pronounce Iona) has always been interested in what she sees and how she sees it. Her route to quilting was a circuitous one, beginning with drawing and painting. She spent six years in Australia, where she learned batik methods and fabric dyeing. After working with batik and producing many, many yards of hand-dyed fabric, she changed her focus to quilts. Her early love of traditional quilts has not left her, although these days she is also exploring more abstract ways to express her ideas. Color is the most important way to do this, and she has been teaching classes on that subject since 1997.

Ionne enjoys several different hobbies—the fairly common ones such as reading, cooking and sewing but also karate! She feels it is a good way to balance out all that sitting at the sewing machine (or glue stick!)

She lives just outside the town of Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with her husband, daughter, two dogs, a cat, and a small flock of sheep.

Sharon can't remember when she didn't sew. Mind you, at her age, she can't remember lots of things. Her love of fabric and sewing machines led her to quiltmaking in the mid-1980s, and it has consumed her life ever since.

Her previous three books, all from Martingale & Company, Reversible Quilts (2002), More Reversible Quilts (2004) and Sensational Sashiko (2005), have opened doors for her all over North America and Great Britain, and her teaching schedule is a busy one. She enjoys traveling and teaching, but she is never happier than when she is at home in her little cabin in the woods with her husband, her five sewing machines (OK some of them are more decorative than functional, but who could resist a bone-handled, hand-crank machine?) an enormous stash of beautiful fabric, and time to play with it.

Table of Contents
Preface	5
Introduction	6
Chapter 1: Color 101	8
Exercise: Color Families	9
Value	11
Exercise: Making a Value Scale	12
Exercise: Relative Value	14
Intensity	15
Exercises: Intensity	16
Warm and Cool	18
Exercise: Warm and Cool	19
Color 101 Review	20
Blocks for Mockup Exercises	21
Chapter 2: One Color Family	24
Exercise: Monochromatic Mockup	24
Project-Blue Plaid Shirt	29
Project-Chinese Coins	32
Chapter 3: The Next-Door Neighbors	35
Exercise: Analogous Colors Mockup	36
Project-Twilight Zone	39
Project-Jumping in the Leaves	42
Chapter 4: The Family Across the Road	45
Exercise: Complementary Colors Mockup	46
Project-Rose Window	48
Project-Look Both Ways	51
Chapter 5: A Fork in the Road	54
Let's Talk about Yellow	55
Exercise: Split Complementary Colors Mockup	56
Project-Hopscotch	57
Project-City Mouse	61
Chapter 6: The Triplets	64
Exercise: Triad Colors Mockup	65
Project- Copper Beech	67
Project-Midnight Stars	71
Chapter 7: The Family Reunion	76
Scrap or Multicolored Quilts	76
Two Plans for Scrap Quilts	77
Exercise: Observe and Practice	78
Project-Family Gathering	79
Quiltmaking 101	84