It's his choice of colors and fabrics that makes them sparkle and with this book as inspiration anyone can learn to see color as freely as Kaffe Fassett does. He highlighted what he loved about each quilt using words that were also emphasized with large, expressive whole-body gestures. He had made his mark as a designer in the knitting and fashion world when his very first ever knitting project was featured in the Vogue Knitting magazine. If we did not bring the right colors with us, there were plenty of fabric choices available from the show organizers, including a huge selection of Kaffe’s fabrics. We finished with a show and tell as Kaffe and Brandon went around to each quilt and evaluated the final results.

Besides this quilting class, I have also taken and written about a quilt class with Empty Spools as well as the Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx class that I took at her retreat house in Montana. I first borrowed this book from the library nearly 10 years ago, then purchased it 5 years ago, and I am still browsing through it.

We make fabric packs for many of the quilts featured in Kaffe Fassett's books: Quilts In Wales, Quilts in an English Village, Quilts in Burano, Quilts in the Cotswolds, Quilts in America, Heritage Quilts, Quilts by the Sea and Kaffe Fassett in the Studio . I'm almost finished making my version of his "Frothy Table Cover" which is made of cotton in a combination of floral pastels cut into triangles. With this lavish book Kaffe Fassett delves into an exciting new textile arena, injecting elegance and richness into the contemporary quilting world. Yet despite this popularity he accepted the adulation with grace and humility, patiently signing quilt books and posing for cell phone photos with the attendees. This final discourse was as much a critique as it was another lesson in the language and the concepts of Kaffe’s color world.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Fasset shows what you can do by NOT contrasting fabrics, but instead by playing with the possibilities of putting three, four, or seventeen different reds, greens or pinks next to each other.In my case, a rainbow of colors was too much for this design – he recommended I decide on either a warm or cool palette and rhen go from there. He freely admitted that he was fortunate to grow up in the 1950’s in an atypical (even for California) home and school environment that supported and encouraged his natural artistic creativity. During those years, Kaffe’s design world also expanded to encompass needlepoint patterns, mosaics, fabric designs and quilt patterns.