Get Creative with M'Liss Rae Hawley - A Beginner's Guide to Color and Design for Quilters (Paperback, illustrated edition)

The project-based book starts with simple lessons in color and design concepts, then moves on to playing with different color "stories" using small. quick projects. Next, quilters get to tell their own stories, as they redesign blocks in new sizes, proportions, and settings. Hawley helps quilters think about how to create a theme for an individual or group quilt and leads her readers through the steps to make an artist's series of quilts based on the easy Century of Progress block sewn with squares and rectangles. Hawley then takes stitchers beyond piecing, providing, providing dozens of tips to enhance design by using pin tucks, machine embroidery, threadwork, and beading. This idea-packed book finishes with an illustrated glossary of color terms.