Jinny Beyer's Color Confidence For Quilters
by Jinny Beyer
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Author: Jinny BeyerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-01-11
ISBN: 0844226394
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Book Reviews of Jinny Beyer's Color Confidence For Quilters
Book Review: Not just for quilters;
Summary: 4 Stars
For anyone who works with "other people's" colors (that is, NOT painters and people who make their own colors). The book can help move people from a quilt made with 5 or 10 "matching" colors purchased at JoAnne's to quilts made from 100 or more; IMO, those quilts are MUCH livelier and sparkly. I found the computer-adjusted pictures of quilts made from "exact match" vs "100+" fabrics helpful.
Color Confidence helped explain to my mind why I find so much polymer clay work slightly flat; in most cases, there are <10 colors in a p.c. cane and none of the gentle variety and shading that one finds in the kind of quilts I really like. Same is true for intarsia and Fair Isle knitting.
If you're already working with > 50 fabrics per artwork, you're probably doing this automatically, in which case the book might offer a new way to organize your color thinking. If you're in the "5-10 fabrics is enough" club and want to get out, or if you believe that decorator or SIL who said, "if you mix more than four patterns in a room, it will look too busy", the book offers a safely structured way to stretch your creativity.
Kaffe Fassett must be doing something similar, but I can't recall him ever discussing his process in print. Karen K. Stone writes about her own color-selection process in her book, but it might not be quite as accessible as the method Jinny presents.
Four stars not five because I don't need to own it; read, grasp the concept, and go. OTOH, if you didn't spontaneously knit your own Fassett knock-off from your own stash, it might be a book you turn to often to keep the color muscles loose and flexible.
Summary of Jinny Beyer's Color Confidence For Quilters
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. Home: Great Falls, VACrafts & Hobbies Books
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