Kaffe Fassett's Bold Blooms: Quilts and Other Works Celebrating Flowers

About the Author Kaffe Fassett is a world-renowned artist, textile designer and author, and his use of colour is widely regarded as visionary. His work has been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. For more information, see his biography, Kaffe Fassett: Dreaming in Color, or visit kaffefassett.com. Product Description Renowned colour expert and quilt and fabric designer Kaffe Fassett explores flowers as a source of inspiration for patchwork and needlepoint in this new quilting guide and pattern collection. Along the way, he shares a behind-the-scenes look at his fascinating design process―from mood boards and “sketching” with colour swatches to planning and sewing the quilts. While the focus is on patchwork and needlepoint, the design and color ideas translate to many design disciplines and materials, including crafts, fiber arts, floral design and home decor. Accessible to all skill levels, the designs on each page will inspire you to see how much more colourful and alive your needlework, quilts and creative projects can be. Review 'Rest your brain with needlework. My favourite book this year is Kaffe Fasset's Bold Blooms, with ideas for embroidery, tapestry, knitting, beading and much more' YOU magazine, Mail on Sunday 'Artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett explores his life-long source of inspiration the flower with Liza Prior Lucy in Kaffe Fassett's Bold Blooms: Quilts and Other Works Celebrating Flowers. The guide provides a behind-the-scenes look at Fassett's own design process and features patchwork and needlepoint projects in seven color moods, for beginners and advanced stitchers alike. And if sewing isn't your thing, the ideas are translated to many other disciplines and materials, from mosaics, embroidery and beading to home decor.' --Flow International magazine 'It's hard to choose a favourite part of this book, doused as it is in wonderful detail and beautiful photography. What lingers most though is the insight into Fassett's practice. We may live in the digital age, but this book celebrates the power of our material world from the collections of ceramics amassed by Fassett, which continue to inspire him, to the potency of his skills in drawing, painting or even fussy cutting a quilt for the first time. Fassett is such a visual thinker Bold Blooms is the closest we can get to seeing through his eyes.' Embroidery magazine 'We were especially blown away by the intricacies of the not-so-grey grey block and radiating bubble quilts. There are quilting and needlepoint projects to try too but, as he says, you can adapt his ideas into any medium, from mosaic to wall decoration.' --Reclaim magazine 'The perfect antidote to a cold winter s evening is a night in with one of Kaffe Fassett's latest books. A feast of colour and inspiration featuring new quilt designs, needlepoint, fabrics, ribbons, still lives and stunning photography from Debbie Patterson. Yes please!' --Today's Quilter magazine From the Back Cover A stunning guide and vibrant pattern collection of 25 new patchwork and needlepoint projects, from renowned color expert and quilt and fabric designer Kaffe Fassett. Drawing inspiration from the natural beauty of flowers, Kaffe Fassett’s Bold Blooms invites crafters to explore the behind-the-scenes process and fascinating design methods used to create Kaffe’s bold fabrics and modern color palettes―from “sketching” with fabric swatches to creating mood boards and renderings to sewing visually striking quilts. Featured throughout are 18 new quilt patterns and seven new needlepoints. Ideas bloom on each page as eye-catching artwork, inventive quilt designs, needlepoint canvases, and bold ribbon patterns grow from concept to completion. Renowned for his use of color, Kaffe creates unique palettes from nature and his surroundings to create color “moods”―from neutrals and soft pastels to rich, dark tones―and he shares his design ideas, practical quilting advi