Electric Quilt ® 5 Color Book
Code: B-COLOR5
Type: EQ5 Companion Book
Price: $21.95 $10.97 while they last
The "EQ5 Color book" is now out-of-print and no longer available from EQ. Please check with your local quilt shop or online vendors to see if they have any remaining books.
What will I learn from EQ5 Color?
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Learn how to create the illusion of distance in a landscape quilt. |
Understanding color theory has never been this fun! Color expert and quilt designer, Susan McKelvey, brings color theory to life as you work through her easy lessons.
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Use the corners of this rectangle to find a new color scheme |
No more cut and paste - color right on your computer screen to see color changes instantly! Learn to give your quilts the color effects you admire but never knew how to create.
Susan's easy lessons teach you how to:
- Learn to read and use a color wheel
- Create illusions of transparency
- Use value gradations to produce movement
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Surround scattered warm colors with dark, cool colors and create quilt that glow! |
- Control background and foreground through color
- Analyze color contrast within fabrics
- Find new color schemes by using geometric shapes
- Simulate dimension using light and shadow
- Develop your color scheme from multi-colored prints
And so much more...
Let Susan show you how to control color. Then put her lessons to work in your quilts as you develop your own unique color sense.
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Use neighboring colors from the color wheel to suggest movement. |
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Susan McKelvey is an EQ5 user, better-known as a quilt designer and author with her own pattern business, Wallflower Designs. Known for her books on appliqué, signature quilts, quilt labels and color, Susan has lectured, taught and exhibited throughout the United States. She has also designed a Bluebirds of Happiness fabric line for Benartex Fabrics. Susan’s earlier color books include Creative Ideas for Color and Fabric, Color for Quilters II, and Quilting and Color Made Easy (co-written with Janet Wickell). EQ5 Color, Susan’s newest color book, is revolutionary! It’s the first book to teach color theory by getting quilters to actually make color choices on the computer screen and learn from the results. |