I’d like to share one of my favorite books from my own studio bookshelf with you today.
“Color Harmony for Quilts – A Quilt Makers Guide to Exploring Color” by Weeks Ringle & Bill Kerr is a fantastic addition to the fiber artist’s bookshelf.  It’s not an instruction manual, more of a guide to using colors more effectively in your quilts, either art or traditional.

The book begins with a discussion of basic color concepts like the color wheel, how color affects our perceptions and even how to find inspiration in the real world.
The authors use traditional and modern quilt blocks in …read more

There’s going to be an amazing exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England beginning next March!
They’re hosting a retrospective of 300 years of British quilts, from 1700 right up to the present day.

The exhibit will begin in March 20th,  2010, and continue through until July 4th, 2010.  They’re going to be showing quilts from their archives that have never been shown before.  You’ll have a chance to see heavily embroidered silk & velvet bed quilts from the 1700s, as well as some of the best in contemporary British art quilting.
There are 65 quilts in the show, divided …read more