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Color Play
Easy Steps to Imaginative Color in Quilts

Book and 3-1 Color Tool Pkg.

Sharla Hicks' Note about Color Play:

Exquisite photography from nature and high quality color printing make you want to curl up and study the value scales, color wheel diagrams, sample blocks and quilt examples that guide you toward understanding the role of color in quilts. The quilt gallery pages will inspire you to begin your next quilt with new color understanding!

Back Cover Information:

Broaden your color experience and stretch your imagination with creative color play. Now selecting colors for your quilt designs will be fun, and your quilts can live up to their visual potential!

• Features 24 colors, their characteristics, and the combinations that look fabulous in a quilt design.
• Sample fabric arrangements and stunning nature photography make color concepts easy to understand
• Learn how variations of pure color, tints, shades, and tones affect the mood of a quilt.
• Enjoy a luscious gallery of over 70 colorful quilts.
• Irresistible illusions you can create using color — highlights, shadows, depth, transparency & more

"The wonderful format of Color Play is a joy to use. Joen makes learning about color fun and interesting."
— Mariam Nathan Roberts, quilt artist and teacher

"All quilters love color! Joan presents 24 glorious colors in a unique way that you can easily translate into your own dynamic quilts. The concise text, well organized illustrations, and beautiful quilts make this a book every quilter show own."
— Judy Dales, quilt artist, teacher and author

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3-in-1 Color Tool
New and Improved
Same great price!

Author: Joen Wolfrom
Publisher: C&T Publisher
Item Code: 4l0340A
Weight: 0.60 lb
10% off: $15.26
MSRP: $16.95

Includes these must have tools:

1. Color Guide
2. Fabric Preview Windows
3. Value Finder
4. and MORE including instructions on how to use the tool and a small color wheel for reference.

Enclosed in a reusable vinyl pouch 24 color cards fastened pages 2.625” x 8”

Create perfect color combinations every time with this indispensable tool for Quilters, Needleworker, and Crafters. The 3-in-1 Color tool is a color-planning tool that helps you choose great combinations every time!

There is NO need to know color theory, because the back of each color family card has the Color Wheel solutions spelled out with a color chart showing the Monochromatic, Complementary, Analogous, Split-complementary, and Triad solutions

Pick a favorite color or fabric

Match the color to one of the 24 Color Cards and 100s of individual swatches, numbered for your convenience

Each Color Card features one pure color with 16 variations specific to the color family in tints (white added), shades (black added) and tones (gray added.) Once your color scheme has been chosen, use each color's Color Card to help you determine your colors or fabrics. NOTE: It is not possible to include every possibility for a color, so you match to the closest family. Care has been taken to ensure that a complete range of colors has been addressed.

Choose a color scheme from the 6 options provided for each color

Find the Color Card for each color in the color scheme

Select Fabrics that match the Color Cards

Value Finder (red and green translucent plastic) Use to view and determine contrast without the distractions of color. Using the Value Finder will help you determine which color on the Color Card is the correct value.

Fabric Preview Window (see next example) 3 fabric preview cut out windows to isolate and audition your fabrics with that allows you to see what a specific area of a fabric will look like in relationship to a specific section of a fabric.

The color wheel schemes are defined on two cards with brief descriptions. For example: Complementary: Select two colors that lie opposite each other on the color wheel.

The Color Cards can be arranged to fan out on its pivot hinged screw to form a color wheel.

Color Guides

for Quilters, Home Decor, Beading, Needlework, and Crafters

Color & Compostion in Art & Innovative Quilts:

NOTE: Also see Art Quilt Collector Editions

Color & Composition for the Creative Quilter
by Katie Pasquini Masopust & Brett Barker

Quilts Inspired by Color Exploration

French Braid Quilts
by Jane Hardy Miller & Arlene Netten

Design & View Tools

Distance Viewer
Reduce Tool
Designed Soft Cover

Color Tools

Design & View Tools

Distance Viewer
Reduce Tool
Designed Soft Cover

Trace & Develop Line Ideas for Quilting & Appliqué

Preview Lines & Placement

Overlay Paper, Vinyl, & Mesh