Modern Rainbow: 14 Imaginative Quilts That Play with Color

by Rebecca Bryan

Overview

Showcase a spectrum of color with striking quilts that breathe new life into the lucky rainbow. Fourth-generation quilter Rebecca Bryan shares 14 modern quilt patterns that take their cues from the color wheel. Ranging from modern-traditional to improvisational, Bryan’s rainbow quilts look stunning in your favorite designer fabrics. You’ll play with jewel tones, pastels, and even neons, as you incorporate a modern rainbow into quilting projects. Arrange your fabric in a way that honors nature’s prism, or take liberties as you mix in neutrals, substitute related colors, or experiment with intensity. It’s like quilting with a fresh box of crayons!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617450181
Publisher:	C&T Publishing / Stash Books
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	759,259
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Rebecca Bryan is a passionate fourth-generation quilter who learned everything she knows about sewing from her mother. A former high school teacher and researcher, she expends most of her education and mental energy toward raising four children and two dogs, but still finds her creative outlet in designing and making quilts. Rebecca and her husband live in Houston, Texas. www.bryanhousequilts.com   

Table of Contents

Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Preface Introduction  Basics             Using the Spectrum in Quilts              Tools and Materials              Techniques and Sewing Basics    Modern Traditional Quilts              Lucy in the Sky              Bubbles              Irish +              Rainbow Streak             The {In}Visible Rainbow    Modern Quilts              Huckleberry              Flame             In the Throne Room              Ducks in a Row    Improvisational and Liberated Quilts              Wavelength             Rainbow Remix              MonStar              Icarus Star              The Impossible Rainbow    Template Patterns Resources  Fabric and Supplies Bibliography About the Author 

Editorial Reviews

A great book that champions bold color choices, Modern Rainbow zings with style. The fourteen featured quilts re fantastic examples of strong color combinations and you’re sure to find a project or two that you feel you have to create in its well-designed pates. There’s a growing and encouraging trend or quilters and authors to encourage enthusiasm over technical perfection, and Rebecca Bryan, whilst providing a wealth of helpful detail and advice, continues that trend. The quilts here are, on a technical level, very accomplished, but they roar with vibrant passion. There are traditionally inspired projects, modern and more freeform projects featured; all of them bristle with delicious color choices, quilts you’ll not only want to make but also use and show off. In playing with colour so effectively and subverting the cliches of the rainbow colour set, Rebecca has triumphed with her selections here. The Lucy in the Sky quilt, that plays with bright primary colors against black and white, is a particular favourite, and Monstar actually looks like it might radiate animatedly like a neon sign, such is the sense of movement.

May 2015 Modern Patchwork

The theme of this issue is colour, and seeing the cover of this book, you might understand why I would have to include it in my review. I would buy this book just for the quilt on the cover - I love the bright colours on it. I wouldn't be disappointed when I got the book home because there are several quilts included that I would be tempted to make as well. They all take their cue from the rainbow. Rebecca describes some basic colour theory if you need it to get you started. There are 14 modern quilt patterns included.

Summer 2015 Canadian Quilter Magazine