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Quilt with Tula and Angela: A Start-to-Finish Guide to Piecing and Quilting Using Color and Shape
Quilt the rainbow with Tula Pink and Angela Walters!
Add color and punch to your next project with Quilt with Tula & Angela .
Known for her cool, innovative style, Tula Pink will inspire you to toss your color wheel and commit to her signature approach to combining colors. Angela Walters creates the complementary finish and surface texture for each design, resulting in the perfect marriage of color and style for each of the featured 17 quilt projects.
Pairing one shape with one color family in each chapter, you'll step through quilts of varying sizes, at the same time enjoying a front row seat to the creative collaboration between these mavens of style.
In addition to the 17 signature Tula Pink quilt designs and 42 quilt design motifs from Angela Walters, you will also be treated to useful tips on choosing fabrics and mixing up prints and approaching the quilt process.
Featuring bold illustrations and gorgeous photographs, Quilt with Tula & Angela is the comprehensive approach to intuitive color choices you've been waiting for.
Add color and punch to your next project with Quilt with Tula & Angela .
Known for her cool, innovative style, Tula Pink will inspire you to toss your color wheel and commit to her signature approach to combining colors. Angela Walters creates the complementary finish and surface texture for each design, resulting in the perfect marriage of color and style for each of the featured 17 quilt projects.
Pairing one shape with one color family in each chapter, you'll step through quilts of varying sizes, at the same time enjoying a front row seat to the creative collaboration between these mavens of style.
In addition to the 17 signature Tula Pink quilt designs and 42 quilt design motifs from Angela Walters, you will also be treated to useful tips on choosing fabrics and mixing up prints and approaching the quilt process.
Featuring bold illustrations and gorgeous photographs, Quilt with Tula & Angela is the comprehensive approach to intuitive color choices you've been waiting for.
192 pages, Paperback
Published November 28, 2016
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October 24, 2017
This is a totally exquisite book! I first saw it at a quilt fabric store and was then able to get it through my local library. I'm in big trouble because I had self-imposed a moratorium on buying free-motion books (having purchased about 10 in the 7 short months I've been seriously free-motion quilting) but, now, I think I've gotta own this book! Manufactured in the USA, the book itself is great: high quality paper, perfect photos, vivid color, extensive close-ups, clear instructions. It's a project book with 17 quilts. Each quilt gets about 14-18 pages including: color and fabric selection, cutting & assembly, and quilting plans & techniques. Even though there are only about 3 of the quilts that I ever see myself making, the pages on both color selection and quilting of each quilt project are outstanding. For instance, there are 10 pages on how to quilt the Hood quilt (final project in the book) and they are exquisite. I intend to reread those 10 pages before beginning every quilting project in my future! And the quilting sections for each of the other 16 projects are excellent (sadly, not all of them are 10pages). I especially value this book because the photographs clearly shows how free-motion quilting on piecing and with print fabrics can look. This book is the first book I buy when I lift or relax my free-motion quilting book moratorium! It should have 10-stars!! [Note to Goodreads: the goodreads listing only credits Tula Pink as author, but as the title says, Angela Walters is also an author. The quilting sections are basically all hers.]
October 7, 2017
The pros: Modern, graphic, bright, and original quilt patterns that range from beginner to advanced. There are a few designs in here that I would like to make, including the Sugar Skulls (in purple but would work with any bright or multicolored fabric), Plus One, and Patina.
The cons: Many of the patterns seem heavily dependent on very specific color prints and colors. I tend to be more interested in patterns that can be customized. I also am not as interested in elaborate free-hand quilting, and there was quite a bit in this book as an integral part of the pattern. I know this is popular for many quilters, just not for me.
That said, this is a really attractive book and lovely to flip through!
The cons: Many of the patterns seem heavily dependent on very specific color prints and colors. I tend to be more interested in patterns that can be customized. I also am not as interested in elaborate free-hand quilting, and there was quite a bit in this book as an integral part of the pattern. I know this is popular for many quilters, just not for me.
That said, this is a really attractive book and lovely to flip through!
February 16, 2019
5 fabulous stars. I may be biased considering I’m a total Tula Pink fangirl, and so when I saw she had written a book with none other than FMQ-extraordinaire Angela Walters, I had to have it! With 17 drool-worthy quilt patterns and the quilting layouts to go along with them (something I often struggle with), I’m struggling to decide which one to start first!
In her introduction, Tula Pink sums up what it feels like to be a quilter so beautifully, I’ll share some of her words: “When I tell people what I do, I am usually greeted with a blank look of confusion, followed almost inevitably by, “Oh I think my grandma used to make quilts!” For anyone outside of our little sub-culture, this statement pretty much sums up everything that there is to know about the subject of quilting. My grandma did not make quilts, but I do. I have come to embrace that blank stare with a sort of secret pride. They don’t know what we know. They don’t know that we are immersed in a cultural revolution. They can’t make the things that we can make with only a bit of cotton, a threaded needle, and our bare hands. We quilters hold the power to warm a person in both body and spirit...There is not a single person in the world I would rather be and not another community on earth I would rather be a part of.”
Wow. I’m proud to be a quilter too.
In her introduction, Tula Pink sums up what it feels like to be a quilter so beautifully, I’ll share some of her words: “When I tell people what I do, I am usually greeted with a blank look of confusion, followed almost inevitably by, “Oh I think my grandma used to make quilts!” For anyone outside of our little sub-culture, this statement pretty much sums up everything that there is to know about the subject of quilting. My grandma did not make quilts, but I do. I have come to embrace that blank stare with a sort of secret pride. They don’t know what we know. They don’t know that we are immersed in a cultural revolution. They can’t make the things that we can make with only a bit of cotton, a threaded needle, and our bare hands. We quilters hold the power to warm a person in both body and spirit...There is not a single person in the world I would rather be and not another community on earth I would rather be a part of.”
Wow. I’m proud to be a quilter too.
December 28, 2016
A great reference title for the quilter's library from two of the most creative quilters--one an expert on color and interesting, modern quilt blocks (I love Tula Pink's city blocks) and the other on adding that other element of design in stitching (Angela Walters is the master of free motion quilting and her how-to tutorials rock my video world). Alas! I have to return the copy I checked out to the public library but plan to put it on hold again and again and again because I know it will be a frequently requested title.
May 21, 2026
It surely must be nice to have access to ALL THE FABRICS! hah! Each of these quilts uses about 15+ Tula fabrics. I get she's selling her line, and I know most quilters have more than enough fabrics to substitute, but.... oof! To buy all the fabrics needed for one of these quilts is.... I'll say cost-prohibitive for many.
The quilt designs are lovely!
My favorite, however is Angela's design instructions for the final quilting.
The quilt designs are lovely!
My favorite, however is Angela's design instructions for the final quilting.
September 17, 2017
Angela always makes me feel better, so I liked this book because I get to read more about her process. I am a beginner free-motion quilter and don't really want to do designs that take me forever to finish, so a lot of Angela's ideas are a bit too labor intensive for me. I do love the bright Tula colors and had fun reading the book.
February 3, 2019
This is a great collaboration between a well known quilt designer and a well known free motion quilter. The projects are well explained, with a number of options for quilting it. I think it would be a great book for someone who doesn't have a local quilt shop to take classes at but wants to perfect some skills under guidance.
February 20, 2019
The quilts in this are just stunning! The piecing is just as intricate as the quilting, though it was a bit more complicated than what I was wanting for my own inspiration. Beautiful projects!
For: intermediate or advanced quilters looking for colorful projects and stunning quilts.
Red flags: not recommended for beginner quilters.
For: intermediate or advanced quilters looking for colorful projects and stunning quilts.
Red flags: not recommended for beginner quilters.
July 27, 2017
This book has beautiful patterns and fabric choices. It is beyond my skill level as a quilter but it does break it down in a way that makes me feel that I could grow to be there.
September 22, 2020
Interesting book: one quilt per color and lots of ideas for quilting. The quilting part was the most interesting for me.
June 9, 2021
Several interesting, doable patterns. I liked the rhythm of the book, first we piece and then we quilt.
November 4, 2024
I especially like the Skull quilt
February 3, 2026
I dunno, the tone of the writing was off to me? And obviously it’s personal preference but I was not expecting so many fugly quilt ideas in here
February 3, 2017
A great book by two of today's well known modern quilters. I like the professional information given through every step of the quilt making process. Tula teaches you how she chooses her colors and why she puts those fabrics together. One of the best write ups on color I have ever read, and I have read many. And Angela gives examples, and options, of quilting patterns to use on each quilt in the book. Full of color, in both photos and illustrations, this guide is eye candy while giving thorough instructions for each quilt you might choose to make. This is a collaboration made in quilting heaven.
I have added the Ginger Blossoms Quilt to my list of quilts to finish this year!
I have added the Ginger Blossoms Quilt to my list of quilts to finish this year!
June 14, 2017
I loved this book, everything about it.
There is something for the beginning quilter to the experienced.
I loved the way it was organized, the quilts and the text.
A must have for anyone interested in Modern Quilting.
There is something for the beginning quilter to the experienced.
I loved the way it was organized, the quilts and the text.
A must have for anyone interested in Modern Quilting.
January 14, 2017
I'd like to make every quilt in this book, excited to get started!
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