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Willow Ridge Press (2008), Edition: 1st, 100 pages
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A guide for a revolutionary way of approaching colour in quilts. It teaches: how to develop unique colour visions in a journal; how to see colour in stashes and in the quilt shop the way artists do; how to make any colour work with any other colour; and where to get innovative ideas for fresh, unique colour combinations.
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LibraryThing member EowynA
This is not a book to passively read, but to actively use. The foundation of the author's system is a color journal that each participant (not just reader) makes for herself, from her own stash of fabrics, so each person has a journal uniquely tailored to her tastes.
The author leads the
The book itself is filled with color examples, easy-to-read text, and a myriad of helpful bits to cut out or photocopy for your own color journal.
I will return to this review when I've had a chance to live with the book, make my color journal, and see her system in action.
The author leads the
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participant through a series of exercises to illustrate and undertand the hues in the color wheel and its accessories - values and intensity. The information is good, the exercises are brilliant. The book itself is filled with color examples, easy-to-read text, and a myriad of helpful bits to cut out or photocopy for your own color journal.
I will return to this review when I've had a chance to live with the book, make my color journal, and see her system in action.
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LibraryThing member teampoush
Holding and reading this book is a sensual experience, as each slick page abounds with pleasing color. I was afraid that a volume with such visual appeal would be light on content, but that is not at all the case. Instead, Color Mastery does a fantastic job of providing substance behind the style,
Peagler lays out ten principles of color mastery, then devotes a chapter each to the main principles, weaving the other principles throughout all the chapters. For those with formal art education, the principles may be too elementary. But for the vast majority of readers, the principles of hue, value, intensity, and the various color harmonies will be new and helpful.
The author strongly suggests keeping a color journal, and shows the reader exactly how to do that. Personally, the idea and application of a color journal is the most exciting part of this book, and from that practice I can definitely anticipate how my crafting projects will improve in their use of color.
Color Mastery also provides nine quilting projects that allow you to practice the principles just learned, using the fabric already in your stash. My primary focus as an artist/crafter is on mixed medium projects, not specifically quilting, and I still got a tremendous amount of information from this book — a quilter will find this a definite treasure trove.
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in the form of solid color theory, and ample practical exercises to teach the reader to apply said theory.Peagler lays out ten principles of color mastery, then devotes a chapter each to the main principles, weaving the other principles throughout all the chapters. For those with formal art education, the principles may be too elementary. But for the vast majority of readers, the principles of hue, value, intensity, and the various color harmonies will be new and helpful.
The author strongly suggests keeping a color journal, and shows the reader exactly how to do that. Personally, the idea and application of a color journal is the most exciting part of this book, and from that practice I can definitely anticipate how my crafting projects will improve in their use of color.
Color Mastery also provides nine quilting projects that allow you to practice the principles just learned, using the fabric already in your stash. My primary focus as an artist/crafter is on mixed medium projects, not specifically quilting, and I still got a tremendous amount of information from this book — a quilter will find this a definite treasure trove.
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LibraryThing member MonicaZ22
When I opened this book, I was somewhat disappointed. I love to read and look at other color mastery-style quilt books. I enjoy looking at the play on colors and all the graphics and how the colors interchange in a pattern/quilt block. This one did not engage my senses. I'm not saying this book
I've looked it over and at Maria Peagler's website. From what I've gathered, this is to be used in conjunction with a weekend workshop. In that respect, the book serves its purpose.
Pros: I enjoyed the section on the color journal. Each chapter has exercises to be used in regards to your own stash. The appendix has color wheels which you can cut out to be used on a daily basis.
Cons: I am a teacher by education and an organizer by heart. If I see "10 Principles" as the title, I expect 10 chapters for each principle. The first four principles were covered in a logical fashion; the other six were covered in various different places - not chapters devoted to each.
In a color mastery book, I'm looking for pages and pages of color. For example, a page on triadic color, show me several examples plus real or graphic designs of quilt blocks and how they interact.
The quilt examples in the back showed fairly dark, old-fahioned fabrics with low contrast. The fabrics needed more contrast between the colors as well as less "mushy" patterns.Other hues could've been used - brights, batiks, cremes, pastels or even black. In the Provence Quilt, she urges readers to use darker yellows and purples. I personally love the bright yellow and purple combinations!
She's got a chock full of good information here but the format and organization are off. Possibly good as supplemental book.
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doesn't have its place, just not as a "stand-alone" color mastery book.I've looked it over and at Maria Peagler's website. From what I've gathered, this is to be used in conjunction with a weekend workshop. In that respect, the book serves its purpose.
Pros: I enjoyed the section on the color journal. Each chapter has exercises to be used in regards to your own stash. The appendix has color wheels which you can cut out to be used on a daily basis.
Cons: I am a teacher by education and an organizer by heart. If I see "10 Principles" as the title, I expect 10 chapters for each principle. The first four principles were covered in a logical fashion; the other six were covered in various different places - not chapters devoted to each.
In a color mastery book, I'm looking for pages and pages of color. For example, a page on triadic color, show me several examples plus real or graphic designs of quilt blocks and how they interact.
The quilt examples in the back showed fairly dark, old-fahioned fabrics with low contrast. The fabrics needed more contrast between the colors as well as less "mushy" patterns.Other hues could've been used - brights, batiks, cremes, pastels or even black. In the Provence Quilt, she urges readers to use darker yellows and purples. I personally love the bright yellow and purple combinations!
She's got a chock full of good information here but the format and organization are off. Possibly good as supplemental book.
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LibraryThing member pilgrimess
Not being primarily a quilter, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from this book, but as an artist/crafter in other media I was hoping that it would still give me some useful insight into colour and design that I could apply more generally to a variety of projects. From this point of view I think
Since I have long been a visual journaller, I found the idea of keeping a colour journal very appealing, and the couple of exercises that I have tried so far by making colour wheels have already helped me in gaining a greater understanding of how the different elements of colour work together. Forcing myself to work from my stash as the author suggests (which in my case is mostly paper of all sorts), I am not only becoming more familiar with what I have at my disposal, but I’m also starting to see possibilities that I wasn’t seeing before, just by training my eye to identify aspects of colour. I have also discovered that there are a couple of particular colour harmonies (one triadic, and one double-complement) that I seem to be frequently drawn to, only I hadn’t noticed since I had never really broken down the various components and analysed them that way. I find it so useful now to have this framework to work with, and I’m inspired to see what a difference it might make to future projects.
As for the quilting side of the book, I thought the projects themselves were interesting and attractive. If I ever get around to learning a little more about quilting (my previous experience is limited to being taught by my mother how to hand-patchwork as a child), then I would certainly try a couple of the projects that Ms Peagler has designed. Her palette and style probably differ from my own, but that doesn’t mean that one can’t take her basic principles and apply them with one’s own style and character. I think a few more photos in places would have added to the visual appeal of the book though, as occasionally it seems a bit heavy on the text and diagrams. The text also repeats itself a couple of times in the book, with the paragraphs on different colour harmonies in Chapter 4 being transplanted almost word for word to the introduction of the projects in Chapters 8 and 9, which seemed a little unnecessary. Also, her “10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts” get a little lost with the other “top ten” or “ten principles” lists in the book.
The only other thing I would have liked to see in this book would be a couple of examples of quilts in which she viewed the colour harmonies as not working as well as they could. Since she comments that she has sometimes seen quilts which appeared disharmonious and could have benefited from a greater understanding of colour harmony, I think it would have been helpful to show a couple of examples, along with her own commentary of what she might change to make it work better.
Overall, I think this is a lovely book with much to offer visual artists of all persuasions, especially those who are already technically accomplished at their chosen media but want to take their understanding of colour to the next level.
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it is a highly successful book: the author breaks down colour harmony into basics, and provides useful ways of identifying hue, value and intensity, concepts that were quite elusive to me prior to reading this. Since I have long been a visual journaller, I found the idea of keeping a colour journal very appealing, and the couple of exercises that I have tried so far by making colour wheels have already helped me in gaining a greater understanding of how the different elements of colour work together. Forcing myself to work from my stash as the author suggests (which in my case is mostly paper of all sorts), I am not only becoming more familiar with what I have at my disposal, but I’m also starting to see possibilities that I wasn’t seeing before, just by training my eye to identify aspects of colour. I have also discovered that there are a couple of particular colour harmonies (one triadic, and one double-complement) that I seem to be frequently drawn to, only I hadn’t noticed since I had never really broken down the various components and analysed them that way. I find it so useful now to have this framework to work with, and I’m inspired to see what a difference it might make to future projects.
As for the quilting side of the book, I thought the projects themselves were interesting and attractive. If I ever get around to learning a little more about quilting (my previous experience is limited to being taught by my mother how to hand-patchwork as a child), then I would certainly try a couple of the projects that Ms Peagler has designed. Her palette and style probably differ from my own, but that doesn’t mean that one can’t take her basic principles and apply them with one’s own style and character. I think a few more photos in places would have added to the visual appeal of the book though, as occasionally it seems a bit heavy on the text and diagrams. The text also repeats itself a couple of times in the book, with the paragraphs on different colour harmonies in Chapter 4 being transplanted almost word for word to the introduction of the projects in Chapters 8 and 9, which seemed a little unnecessary. Also, her “10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts” get a little lost with the other “top ten” or “ten principles” lists in the book.
The only other thing I would have liked to see in this book would be a couple of examples of quilts in which she viewed the colour harmonies as not working as well as they could. Since she comments that she has sometimes seen quilts which appeared disharmonious and could have benefited from a greater understanding of colour harmony, I think it would have been helpful to show a couple of examples, along with her own commentary of what she might change to make it work better.
Overall, I think this is a lovely book with much to offer visual artists of all persuasions, especially those who are already technically accomplished at their chosen media but want to take their understanding of colour to the next level.
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LibraryThing member nitalaabs
As a quilter who wishes she could quilt more, this book is long on useful information but short on eye candy. I am usually looking for inspiration as well as information when I buy this kind of quilt book.
The content is outstanding, however. I thought I had a pretty good handle on color theory
In short, I would say this is an excellent reference for any visual artist (quilter, knitter, painter, needle worker) to have in her library. However, it is not the kind of book that will live next to my bed for inspiration when I want to dream about my next quilt.
The content is outstanding, however. I thought I had a pretty good handle on color theory
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from photography classes, and work in the printing industry. Peagler helped to clarify the differences between hue, value, and intensity, which was always a fuzzy concept for me. Great diagrams and pictures, mostly of color wheels. I wish there were more of quilts! I would like to see more of the concepts she is teaching implemented. In short, I would say this is an excellent reference for any visual artist (quilter, knitter, painter, needle worker) to have in her library. However, it is not the kind of book that will live next to my bed for inspiration when I want to dream about my next quilt.
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LibraryThing member Seventy-one
After two teachers (school art teacher and a professional oil portrait painter) tried and failed to teach me the color wheel in a way that made it really understandable, memorable, interesting, even exciting, Maria Peagler is doing that for me at last! She's even revived this wanna-be quilter's
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determination to get quilting before her fingers are too arthritic. I've stocked up on supplies for my color journal, looked over my stash and analyzed what I'm missing, photocopied the templates the author so kindly provides and scheduled a three-day weekend quilting retreat to really immerse myself in this wonderful book and come up with at least one design, possibly even a small project. I'll post another review after that weekend. Show Less
LibraryThing member bibliobeck
This is a really lovely book. I love the ‘magazine style’ layout, with text broken into readable chunks, and splashed with lovely illustrations and diagrams. The book is a demonstration of its own wonderful ideas with lovely colourful borders, quilted swatches and stitching effects scattered
The author holds the reader’s hand as she leads them through various exercises to develop a deeper understanding of colour and the use of hue, value and intensity alongside colour wheels. As someone who enjoys crafting in general, I can see the benefit of this book across the spectrum (so to speak!) and the author briefly touches on this in the FAQ section at the end of the book. Personally I wonder if this should be taken into account with the marketing of this book as I would have been unlikely to pick this up in a shop if I were looking for a book on the use of colour in knitting, but I am delighted to have it on my shelf now for the variety of crafts I do. I would urge other crafters who may not be quilters to look at this book too, especially if designing their own patterns or colour schemes. I love the idea of a colour journal (complete with permission to get messy!) and there are even mini colour wheels in the appendix to cut out and use in the journal. I am very interested in colour and appreciate the way that it can convey a message (as in the ‘Cottage Garden Quilt’ project in the book) and affect mood. Overall, very readable, for me simple but not at all obvious comments about colour and palette that I really needed pointing out to me and some useful exercises to help increase understanding. I finished the book knowing that I have learned something important and that will enhance my crafting and I don’t think you can ask any more from a book! Highly recommended.
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across the pages which constantly draw the eye and lift the spirits! Maria Peagler is clearly a woman who is passionate about colour and her advice doesn’t come from a formulaic stance, rather she has 10 principles to master colour which are clearly laid out like a mission statement and are then followed up in depth in the following chapters. She has a background in art, but helps the reader identify that in material, the crafter has a pre-made palette, and so must use the colour wheel in a different way to artists.The author holds the reader’s hand as she leads them through various exercises to develop a deeper understanding of colour and the use of hue, value and intensity alongside colour wheels. As someone who enjoys crafting in general, I can see the benefit of this book across the spectrum (so to speak!) and the author briefly touches on this in the FAQ section at the end of the book. Personally I wonder if this should be taken into account with the marketing of this book as I would have been unlikely to pick this up in a shop if I were looking for a book on the use of colour in knitting, but I am delighted to have it on my shelf now for the variety of crafts I do. I would urge other crafters who may not be quilters to look at this book too, especially if designing their own patterns or colour schemes. I love the idea of a colour journal (complete with permission to get messy!) and there are even mini colour wheels in the appendix to cut out and use in the journal. I am very interested in colour and appreciate the way that it can convey a message (as in the ‘Cottage Garden Quilt’ project in the book) and affect mood. Overall, very readable, for me simple but not at all obvious comments about colour and palette that I really needed pointing out to me and some useful exercises to help increase understanding. I finished the book knowing that I have learned something important and that will enhance my crafting and I don’t think you can ask any more from a book! Highly recommended.
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LibraryThing member Mickeyfreak
As a little more than beginning quilter, I found this book to be a great resource! I feel that this book is better served for the self-learner, rather than in a class environment. Let's face it, how many of us have time to take a class? But many more of us have a little free time in the day to
I felt that the journal was an excellent way of keeping track of your fabrics and ideas. It's great to go back after a few years and be able to try the same pattern layout, but perhaps with different fabrics this time, or to use the same color scheme in a different pattern. All of your notes are right there.
I have always had trouble with differentiating between value and intensity. This book helps by not only explaining them, but also by showing examples. The explanations of the color wheel combinations, along with examples of how they work, makes this book a must-have. I don't have enough "stash" yet to make more than one color wheel, but as I add to my collection, I will definitely make and use color wheels.
This book is very visual, with lots of great color combinations in the examples, down-to-earth explanations, tips and project ideas! It makes me feel more confident about making choices in future projects, and I won't have to keep on pestering my more advanced quilting friends for help!
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dedicate to reading, discovering, and applying the concepts taught in the book. I felt that the journal was an excellent way of keeping track of your fabrics and ideas. It's great to go back after a few years and be able to try the same pattern layout, but perhaps with different fabrics this time, or to use the same color scheme in a different pattern. All of your notes are right there.
I have always had trouble with differentiating between value and intensity. This book helps by not only explaining them, but also by showing examples. The explanations of the color wheel combinations, along with examples of how they work, makes this book a must-have. I don't have enough "stash" yet to make more than one color wheel, but as I add to my collection, I will definitely make and use color wheels.
This book is very visual, with lots of great color combinations in the examples, down-to-earth explanations, tips and project ideas! It makes me feel more confident about making choices in future projects, and I won't have to keep on pestering my more advanced quilting friends for help!
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LibraryThing member wulf
I'm not a quilter but I am an artist, working particularly with web design and photography, so I was glad to receive a review copy of this book for its perspectives on colour.
It breaks consideration of colour into three areas - hue (eg. red, blue, etc), value (darkness / lightness) and intensity
As a non-quilter, I still found the book to be a solid reference work. I suspect that for someone who is interested in quilting it would be even more valuable, particularly for the various projects that allow the reader to practise what has been preached.
It breaks consideration of colour into three areas - hue (eg. red, blue, etc), value (darkness / lightness) and intensity
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(vivid / pastel) - with examples of how they apply to selecting a combination of fabrics that will create an excellent quilt. The book has many examples of various fabrics as well as plenty of information about various approaches to creating an effective colour combination.As a non-quilter, I still found the book to be a solid reference work. I suspect that for someone who is interested in quilting it would be even more valuable, particularly for the various projects that allow the reader to practise what has been preached.
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LibraryThing member t.peggy
I got this book as an ARC thru Library Thing. Its really nice stock, very glossy pages. Large format paperback. I am glad I was chosen, but I have delayed reviewing this book, because its not a quick read and I wanted to do the book justice. The author does not "dummy" down information. Actually I
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found some of the terms intimidating... But I've delayed the review too long now. In this book there are projects to complete as part of learning the color mastery, and not being self motivated I think I would make more use of this book in a workshop environment, or group study. I love quilt fabric and was always indecisive in making choices, so I'm looking forward to delving deeper into this author's "10 Principles". So my rating of 4 stars is reflecting the graphics of the book, my joy in receiving it, and my anticipation of learning from it. Show Less
LibraryThing member seldombites
I have never done any quilting, but I have been wanting to give it a try. As a complete novice, I found this book easy to understand and follow, and I am very much looking forward to trying the included projects. As a person with absolutely no artistic ability, I feel this will be a valuable
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LibraryThing member Alsek
I requested this not for myself but rather for my daughter who has taken up quilting. She enjoyed this book very much and said it was very helpful and provided many thoughtful suggestions. Employing some of the techniques described in the book the appearance of her quilts has improved dramatically.
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I agree with others that the book's printing is of high quaility and the photographs and illustrations are excellent. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in quilting. Show Less
LibraryThing member meimur
While not a quilter, I can appreciate this book and have applied some of the principles to other creative outlets, such as painting - especially the mixing of colors and textures to create a cohesive end product.
LibraryThing member psychomamma
This is a lovely book about quilting (and I have a lot). I love the glossy way the pages feel and the many pictures and examples you are given. The one thing I've always struggled with (and the ladies at the quilt store always have to help me with) is figuring out which materials go together well.
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If that's your issue, this is the book for you. I learned so much and really appreciate this book!! Show Less
LibraryThing member Beary_Bookwormish
I really did receive this book truly I did. The reasons for this late review are enumerable sooo
I actually found this book very hard to understand and really wordy. I was expecting a book on how to "scheme" your colors for quilts, that's not exactly what this was.
It was more like reading a book on
Not to mention that her color choices were strange and confusing. She described the right way to choose colors and then did the exact opposite in some but NOT all of her "pre-views".
All in all it was NOT a book I would have added to my "growing" collection of quilt, crochet, & craft literature. It just doesn't fit in any way with what I'm used to seeing from a quilt expert.
I actually found this book very hard to understand and really wordy. I was expecting a book on how to "scheme" your colors for quilts, that's not exactly what this was.
It was more like reading a book on
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how everyone else's color technique is indescribably horrid. Reading the content I felt like I could never reach her level of mastery.Not to mention that her color choices were strange and confusing. She described the right way to choose colors and then did the exact opposite in some but NOT all of her "pre-views".
All in all it was NOT a book I would have added to my "growing" collection of quilt, crochet, & craft literature. It just doesn't fit in any way with what I'm used to seeing from a quilt expert.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
100 p.; 11 inches
ISBN
0981627706 / 9780981627700
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