Conquering Color and Fabric: Introducing the Dynamic Quilting Color and Fabric Plan(TM)

Conquering Color and Fabric teaches quilters what you need to know to use color, value and fabric characteristics to your advantage so you can confidently choose fabrics for your quilts, and really love the final results.

In Conquering Color and Fabric, Heidi Edwards Dunn helps quilters who are overwhelmed by choosing fabrics and quilters who are comfortable choosing yet want to expore further to:

• Learn the language of color and fabric and understand the relationships between colors.
• Explore value and fabric characteristics and how they affect fabric choices for your quilts.
• Practice using The Dynamic Quilting Color & Fabric Plan(TM) to help you choose fabrics.
• Review real life quilts created by Heidi Edwards Dunn to see how the principles in the book can be utilized.
• Understand how to shop from your stash and navigate a productive fabric shopping trip.

At some point along your quilt journey, you have probably said that you needed to know more about color. Maybe you enjoy choosing fabrics, and just want to love your finished quilts more. Or maybe, choosing fabrics, although wonderful, is agony and walking into a quilt shop is overwhelming. Where do you start? How do you break down the process of choosing fabrics so you know what to look for? How do you learn to make better fabric choices?

Learning some of the "rules" of color and value, how to use a color wheel, and the characteristics of fabrics can give you more tools with which to identify great fabrics for your next quilt. Since color theory is science, learning some very basic principles can help you to make better fabric choices. Practicing with value and identifying fabric characteristics can help. Inspiration and your likes and dislikes add some mystery and challenge to the process - a process that you can conquer with practice.

Take a great leap with the author by your side towards conquering color & fabric so you can more confidently choose quilt fabrics and love your finished quilts even more. Read the text, look at the photos, examine the photos, do the exercises(!), try out The Dynamic Quilting Color and Fabric Plan(TM) and then utilize what you've learned to choose fabrics for your next quilt. You will be a color and fabric conqueror yet!