Glorious Patchwork: More Than 25 Glorious Quilt Designs

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One of the surprising comments that Kaffe made at the beginning of the class was that more often than not, he noticed that students would make a quilt in the colors of the clothes that they wore, and he was quite right.

We finished with a show and tell as Kaffe and Brandon went around to each quilt and evaluated the final results. In my case, a rainbow of colors was too much for this design – he recommended I decide on either a warm or cool palette and rhen go from there.KAFFE FASSETT, renowned for his colorwork, shares his vision of craft in frequent lecture tours, exhibitions, and television appearances. It was interesting to see how at the end of the day a blue themed quilt was made by someone wearing a blue cardigan or a predominantly yellow quilt was put together by a student wearing a yellowish top.

I remember the first time I saw those patterns in his classic book Glorious Knits – I was mesmerized. In "Glorious Patchwork"--one of his most spectacular and original books--Kaffe presents more than 25 designs that draw on the essence of his colorwork. I gathered a new idea just this week from the book and even though the floral fabrics are dated - looking at the shapes and color ways i have a new quilt brewing in my mind. I first borrowed this book from the library nearly 10 years ago, then purchased it 5 years ago, and I am still browsing through it.We make fabric packs for many of the quilts featured in Kaffe Fassett's books: Quilts In Wales, Quilts in an English Village, Quilts in Burano, Quilts in the Cotswolds, Quilts in America, Heritage Quilts, Quilts by the Sea and Kaffe Fassett in the Studio . He showed us how he finds inspiration in the smallest things, like the color variations of lichen covered stones or the shade gradations in a geranium leaf.