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Colorific: Unlock the Secrets of Fabric Selection for Dynamic Quilts
Colorific: Unlock the Secrets of Fabric Selection for Dynamic Quilts
Colorific: Unlock the Secrets of Fabric Selection for Dynamic Quilts
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Colorific: Unlock the Secrets of Fabric Selection for Dynamic Quilts

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Have you always felt nervous about choosing colors for your quilts? Popular pattern designer Pam Dinndorf helps you step up to color confidence and break out of the drab quilt doldrums for good. Learn how to use the color wheel to select fabrics and how to start with a large group of fabrics and zero in quickly on the ones that look best together.
·Make 6 bold quilts in Pam's signature colors
·Get answers to frequently asked questions like how to rescue quilts that look too flat or too busy
·Foreword by fabric and quilt designer Kaffe Fassett
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 28, 2013
ISBN9781607053675
Colorific: Unlock the Secrets of Fabric Selection for Dynamic Quilts

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    Colorific - Pam Goecke Dinndorf

    Dedication

    To my mother, Hazel, for nurturing

    my love of all things beautiful,

    and to my husband, Patrick, for never failing

    to encourage my affair with color

    Acknowledgments

    I must thank my long-suffering family first—my stalwart husband, Patrick, for making me believe and allowing me to indulge in my obsession, and my children, Sydney, Egan, and Elias, for their patience and inability to see the dust collecting around them.

    Thanks to the very special people I encountered at Gruber’s Quilt Shop in Waite Park, Minnesota, who introduced me to a whole new way to express myself with color: Sue Poser, Charlene Lemieur, and Beth Probasco, fellow addicts who share my bliss and inspire and encourage me in this quest for the ultimate colorful quilt. Thanks also to Craig Blacklock, the master photographer who took such care to get just the right shots for this book in spite of the elements; the Lake County (Minnesota) Historical Society, the Historic Union Depot (Two Harbors, Minnesota), and Gooseberry Falls State Park (Minnesota) for allowing us to drape my quilts all over for photography; Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably of Westminster Fibers, Marcia Derse of Troy Corporation, and Terry Mangat of Free Spirit for supplying glorious fabrics for the quilt projects; my editors at C&T, especially Lynn Koolish for her patience, flexibility, and knowledge, without which this book would never have come to be; and all of the brave quilters who signed up for my classes and absolutely enhanced my enjoyment of this quilted adventure we are on.

    col•or•if•ic

    adj.—highly colored

    Preface

    Throughout my childhood, as well as my children’s, one of my favorite places to visit has been the rocky, majestic North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. We are drawn back again and again to experience the awe that fills us when we are in its presence.

    This was naturally my choice as a backdrop for featuring my new designs, since this area played such a large part in inspiring and influencing my aesthetic development. The rough, neutral beauty of Lake Superior in the spring serves as a perfect foil for the bright colorations of the quilts.

    I am very thankful for my God-given love for and talent with color and feel a strong obligation to share that with others in his honor. It is entirely appropriate to combine my humble creations with one of his best—Minnesota’s North Shore.

    —Pam

    Foreword

    Since I first launched my fabric designs in this patchwork market, many people have used them, with different degrees of success. Every once in a while I am struck by such original use of my prints I’m virtually stopped in my tracks.

    Pam Goecke Dinndorf has consistently caught my attention through the years with her quite brilliant use of color and form. It is often the proportion of the colors as they are combined that makes them optimally radiant. Pam has a way of creating simple structures that allow the colors to positively glow. The color schemes she chooses almost always have a sophistication as well as a down-home earthiness that rarely fails to inspire me.

    She brings a very fresh and solidly talented eye to my beloved world of traditional quilts.

    —Kaffe Fassett

    SELECTION:

    Color and Print

    As much as I love words, spoken words as well as written words, sometimes I want to say things that words cannot say. Color, for me, is my language. From as far back as I can remember, color has spoken to and for me.

    Color evokes feelings, inspires creativity, stimulates action, confers status, and recalls memories, all without words. Studies have been done and books have been written on the power of color to heal, motivate, or incite, but

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