Kaffe Fassett’s
Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts
U.S. $35.00
KA F F E FASS E T T , an accomplished painter and designer of textiles, is widely acknowledged as a visionary in the use of color. In 1988 he was honored to become the first living textile designer to be given a one-person show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Since then, the exhibition of his textiles has traveled the world with him as he has taught and inspired others. He is a fabric designer for Rowan Patchwork and Quilting and the primary knitwear designer for Rowan Yarns. Kaffe Fassett’s Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts is his fourth quilting book and his fourteenth book overall.
LIZA P R I O R LU CY is an expert quiltmaker and the owner of Glorious Color (www.gloriouscolor.com), a source for fabrics designed by Kaffe Fassett and friends. She works with Fassett on his fabric lines and books.
Jacket design by ANNA CHRISTIAN
Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts 23 Original Quilt Designs
LIZA PRIOR LUCY
Photographs by Debbie Patterson
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ISBN: 978-1-58479-837-8 ISBN 978-1-58479-837-8
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In Kaffe Fassett’s Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts, world-renowned quilter Kaffe Fassett demonstrates how basic geometric forms—squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, circles, and quarter-circles—found in natural and manmade environments inspire his quilt designs. Twenty-three of his magnificent, inventive quilts— ranging from the relatively simple Tilt, ideal for beginners, to the more complex Circle of Stars, for more advanced stitchers—are showcased in the book, along with step-by-step instructions for making each one. Along the way, Fassett also offers over a hundred photographs of geometric inspiration from around the world—everything from triangular watermelon slices, to rectangular sheets of corrugated metal on African scrap dwellings, to lollipop-shaped topiary trees in Japan. In the accompanying text, Fassett reveals how he experiences the colors and basic shapes around him, how we can train our own eyes to see this rewarding source of creativity, and how we can, just as he does, combine striking fabrics with simple shapes to create our own spectacular quilt designs.