Welcome Home Kaffe Fassett, New Edition

by Kaffe Fassett

Overview

Awaken your senses to a new appreciation of color as you enter the studio of one of the world’s leading fabric and quilt designers—Kaffe Fassett. Updated in a visually-exciting new edition, Welcome Home Kaffe Fassett shows you how to combine rich colors and textures to create your own brilliant decorative accents. Kaffe’s passion for vivid and intricate design has inspired artistic knitting patterns, stunning needlepoint, unique fabrics, fantastic mosaics, and fabulous patchwork quilts. In these pages he reveals the color theory and sources of inspiration behind his visually exciting work. Take a private tour of Kaffe’s historic one-man textile-arts exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, photographed exclusively for this book. Delight in nine projects, including a completely new project for a full-size snowball quilt. Each design comes with clear step-by-step instructions, how-to diagrams, and templates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947163003
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Edition description:	New
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kaffe Fassett is internationally-acclaimed as one of today’s leading contemporary colorists and textile designers. Color and pattern are his obsessions, with his first venture into textiles being in yarns and knitting, and knit-garment design. Soon, his expertise extended to needlepoint, fabric, and quilt design. Kaffe Fassett’s unique garments have been commissioned by Barbra Streisand, Lauren Bacall, Ali McGraw, Shirley Maclaine, Helen Frankenthaler, and many more. His fabric lines for Westminster Fabrics are highly sought after by quilters worldwide.

Editorial Reviews

Kaffe Fassett is to color what Julia Child was to French cooking.”
—Knitters Review

“Exactly what one would expect from the master of color…one huge canvas for working with color, patterns, and texture.”
—Knitting.about.com

From the Publisher

12/01/2017
Over the span of his lengthy career, Fassett has earned a name for himself as an artist and designer whose works include painting, quilting, surface design, needlepoint, mosaic, and rag rugs. This new edition gives readers a look inside Fassett's Edwardian-era home, which is decorated in his signature style. Every surface is embellished, and every shelf features items from one of Fassett's many collections, which include everything from traditional blue-and-white pottery to smiling Buddhas. Crafters interested in bringing Fassett's style into their own homes can complete one of the projects, which include quilts, mosaics, and hooked rag rugs. VERDICT There's nothing minimal about Fassett, and readers will be fascinated with his ability to turn the traditional into something unusual and unexpected.

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