I am excited to share with you today a book that resonates with me ~ Quilt Local: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday by Heather Jones. The book features twenty projects - quilts and pillow covers - each in two color ways, with complete instructions for each, as well as stories about their inspiration and color and fabric choices.
Quilt Local is Heather's first book and I am excited to share it with you for the assertion behind the book - finding inspiration in everyday - is one that I practice myself; to actively find inspiration in your environment, observe rhythmic pattern and graphic beauty in simple shapes, irregular lines, and the joy of color play in our surroundings.
Heather brings a fresh perspective to quilting with her minimalist quilting style - including the use of bold color and large scale blocks - and shares five habits that are useful when looking for design ideas and how to go about translating inspiration into finished quilts using sketches and simple math.
Heather also outlines the basics of color theory ~ how to create color palettes and color stories in quilting ~ and simplifies the process of choosing colors for the design. I love that all the projects are presented in two colorways for this illustrates perfectly how different the same layout can look when you change the color/fabric combination. Heather explains her color choices and each unique color palette becomes a mini lesson in color theory and fabric selection.
Heather takes us on a journey from inspiration to finished quilt providing all the information required along the way, including a chapter on basic quilt construction, to ensure successful completion of your project.
All of the projects in the book are beautifully photographed (by Jenny Hallengren) in delightful landscape and indoor settings which makes this book not only a great quilting information resource but may visually also be the spark that ignites your own pathway for original design, or at the very least serve as a gentle reminder to practise mindfulness; to live with your eyes wide open.
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
Merry Christmas! The team at STC Craft (Abrams) are kindly giving away a copy of the book to one lucky RPQ reader.
To be in the draw please leave a comment on this blog post. Only one comment per person/per email address - email me if you are not able to leave a comment (redpepperquilts at gmail dot com) and I will leave a comment on your behalf. International entries welcome!
The draw will take place at 10am (Australia EDT) on Sunday 27 December 2015, at which time comments to this post will be closed. The winner will be announced by edit to this blog post, and will also be contacted by email.
Congratulations Heather on the release of your book and thank you to the team at STC Craft for kindly giving away a copy of the book.
Good luck everyone and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
Rita
Heather brings a fresh perspective to quilting with her minimalist quilting style - including the use of bold color and large scale blocks - and shares five habits that are useful when looking for design ideas and how to go about translating inspiration into finished quilts using sketches and simple math.
Heather also outlines the basics of color theory ~ how to create color palettes and color stories in quilting ~ and simplifies the process of choosing colors for the design. I love that all the projects are presented in two colorways for this illustrates perfectly how different the same layout can look when you change the color/fabric combination. Heather explains her color choices and each unique color palette becomes a mini lesson in color theory and fabric selection.
Heather takes us on a journey from inspiration to finished quilt providing all the information required along the way, including a chapter on basic quilt construction, to ensure successful completion of your project.
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| Central Parkway Quilt by Heather Jones |
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
Merry Christmas! The team at STC Craft (Abrams) are kindly giving away a copy of the book to one lucky RPQ reader.
To be in the draw please leave a comment on this blog post. Only one comment per person/per email address - email me if you are not able to leave a comment (redpepperquilts at gmail dot com) and I will leave a comment on your behalf. International entries welcome!
The draw will take place at 10am (Australia EDT) on Sunday 27 December 2015, at which time comments to this post will be closed. The winner will be announced by edit to this blog post, and will also be contacted by email.
Thank you for all of your entries!
ENTRY HAS NOW CLOSED.
The winner of the book Quilt Local by Heather Jones is:
Andrea has been contacted by email.
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| Shellshock Quilt by Heather Jones |
Good luck everyone and wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!
Rita
RELEVANT LINKS:
Amazon: Quilt Local: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday by Heather Jones
COPYRIGHT: Do not copy or use any content or photos from my blog without my written permission. With thanks to STC Craft for permission to take photographs of the quilts in the book and to use those images here on my blog. Original photographs of the quilts in the book are by Jenny Hallengren.
