Glorious Patchwork

By Kaffe Fassett

Book Overview

The landmark quilting book from a modern-day quilting legend. For more than two decades, Kaffe Fassett's sumptuously textured, vibrantly colored designs have thrilled readers and inspired them to pile... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: 0316275301
• ISBN13: 9780316275309
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Deliciously inspirational & great coffee table book!!

Heavenly explosion of colour across every page excites the eyes and gets ones fingers itching! One of the most inspiring patchwork books I have seen, the quilts zing & colour combinations are fabulous. If you are new to patchwork and need a step-by-step guide, this book provides it more than generously. For experienced quilters it serves as an admirable ideas book, as it is brim-full of new ideas in design & layout...

A Feast For The Eyes!

If you're enthusiastic about the use of color in patchwork, than this is the book for you. There are over 25 different patchwork designs that are pictured and displayed in gorgeous settings. There are no shortage of color photographs and most of the designs are pictured close up and then pictured again being used in the home decor.Kaffe Fassett puts a new spin on some of the traditional quilt patterns and his creations are...

Great for fabric-o-holics!

I think this is an absolutely excellent quilting book for anyone who needs a reminder of what one can do with color--I highly recommend it to anyone who is tired of the same old traditional color schemes and the not-so-inventive, often washed-out contemporary ones. When I first skimmed the book I was thrilled because I realized that I DO have a way to work through my huge fabric collection-- especially fabrics I was worried...

Fabulous quilts with simple designs.

The point of this book is not complicated designs, it's what you can do with the simplest block and trinagle patterns. His color choices and ability to pull colors from scenes, buildings, collections, or just nature, are what make this book stand out from the hundreds of other quilt books. If you are into, art quilts or just letting the fabrics and colors do the work, you will love this book. I do quilts, mosaics, and knit,...

Another "must-have" book from Kaffe Fassett!

Another beautiful book from a Master of design! Just as he did in his previous, wonderful design books on Needlepoint, Knitting and Home Decor, Kaffe Fassett has brought his exuberant sense of color and pattern to the design of quilts. When you see these gorgeous quilts you'll want to make them all - and you can. That's because the designs are based on simple, nearly traditional, geometric patterns. It's his choice of colors...