Jinny Beyer's Color Confidence for Quilters

by Jinny Beyer

Drawn from her own experience in teaching and making quilts, Jinny Beyer's "Master Palette" system is great for quilters who want to develop color confidence quickly and easily without studying formal color theory. Quilters will learn how to create a smooth-flowing palette with no jumps from dark to light or one color to the next, and will also learn the secrets to "coloring" a quilt by shading colors and fabrics or scattering them throughout a quilt. Practice exercises help crafters combine colors again and again until they can confidently choose colors for any project. Includes eight quilt patterns and templates that encourage quilters to stretch their palette, handy eight-step guide to creating a multi-color, multiprint quilt, 128 color swatches, two master palettes, and eight-course outline and suggestions for color teachers. Jinny Beyer is one of the best-known and most highly respected fabric designers in the quiltmaking industry. Her signature line of fabrics, produced by RJR Fashion Fabrics, is sold throughout the world. Great Falls, VA

Genres: Quilting, Sewing, Crafts

Paperback

First published January 11, 1992

Reviews

[Nonnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great for learning about designing quilts using color. Jinny does not use a color wheel but focus fabric. Her technique is to pick the colors in your focus fabric ... get multiple values of the colors and then use the darks and lights from your selection and abandon the original colors. Sounds complicated but it is not.... I love the look of her quilts and think they have more depth to them then other quilts I have seen. Totally complex quilts. I do not think I would ever make her quilts but I found a learned a lot from her techniques in color selection and they added life to my quilts.


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[Mary D · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book very helpful when I was trying to build my confidence in planning color schemes.