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Title Page; Contents; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE Designing with Bold Blooms; INSPIRATION: In Pursuit of Bold Blooms in Decorative Arts; THE SINGLE BLOSSOM: Stitching Needlepoint Blooms; FABRICS IN BLOOM: Drawing Blossoms for Quilting Cottons; FLOWERS ON RIBBONS: Designing Strips of Abstract Flowers; FLORAL PATCHWORK: Lush Arrangements of Flower Prints; LIVE FLOWERS: Arranging Fresh Blossoms; BOUQUET STILL LIFES: Painting Cut Flowers; PART TWO Bold Bloom Quilts and Needlepoints; NEUTRALS & SOFT PASTELS; Gray Random Strips Quilt; Gray Blocks Quilt; White Dahlia Needlepoint Pillow; BRIGHT PASTELS.;A stunning guide and vibrant pattern collection of 25 new patchwork and needlepoint projects, from renowned color expert and quilt and fabric designer Kaffe Fassett. Drawing inspiration from the natural beauty of flowers, Kaffe Fassetts Bold Blooms invites crafters to explore the behind-the-scenes process and fascinating design methods used to create Kaffes bold fabrics and modern color palettes-from sketching with fabric swatches to creating mood boards and renderings to sewing visually striking quilts. Featured throughout are 18 new quilt patterns and seven new needlepoints. Ideas bloom on each page as eye-catching artwork, inventive quilt designs, needlepoint canvases, and bold ribbon patterns grow from concept to completion. Renowned for his use of color, Kaffe creates unique palettes from nature and his surroundings to create color moods--Neutrals and soft pastels to rich, dark tones-and he shares his design ideas, practical quilting advice, and needlepoint techniques useful to both novice and seasoned crafters throughout these colorful projects. With an emphasis on patchwork and needlework, the inventive designs and fresh color palettes translate to many creative disciplines ranging from mosaic, beading, fiber arts, embroidery, floral arrangements, and home dcor. Accessible to quilting and sewing beginners and experts alike, the lively floral designs on each page are sure to inspire and send readers off on a color-filled creative journey, offering something for makers of all skill levels. Also available from Kaffe Fassett: Kaffe Fassetts Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts, Kaffe Fassett: Dreaming in Color, and Kaffe Fassett Quilts Shots and Stripes.

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CONTENTS - photo 1

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CONTENTS PART ONE Designing with - photo 3

CONTENTS PART ONE Designing with Bold Blooms In Pursuit of Bold - photo 4

CONTENTS

PART ONE Designing with Bold Blooms In Pursuit of Bold Blooms in Decorative - photo 5

PART ONE Designing with Bold Blooms In Pursuit of Bold Blooms in Decorative - photo 6

PART ONE
Designing with Bold Blooms

In Pursuit of Bold Blooms in Decorative Arts

Stitching Needlepoint Blooms

Drawing Blossoms for Quilting Cottons

Designing Strips of Abstract Flowers

Lush Arrangements of Flower Prints

Arranging Fresh Blossoms

Painting Cut Flowers

PART TWO
Bold Bloom Quilts and Needlepoints

PART THREE How To - photo 7

PART THREE How To A - photo 8

PART THREE How To A INTRODUCTION - photo 9

PART THREE
How To

A INTRODUCTION For many years Ive dreamed of doing a book celebrating my - photo 10

A INTRODUCTION For many years Ive dreamed of doing a book celebrating my - photo 11

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INTRODUCTION

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For many years Ive dreamed of doing a book celebrating my passion for flowers in the decorative arts. Ive been privileged to travel to all corners of the globe to see inspiring uses of flowers in everything from embroidery to wall decoration to architectural details.

My love of live flowers is no less passionate and never far from my color-processing thoughts. Realizing my love of blooms, my great friend photographer Steve Lovi taught me to explore gardens at different seasons and to draw peoples attention to the intense beauty of flower forms and colors. When I was planning my book Glorious Knitting in the 1980s, he encouraged me to have garments of certain color schemes knitted to coincide with the seasons at the gardens and parks where he planned to do our fashion shoots. During the last creative phase of his life, he would hit the flower markets of San Francisco at their dawn opening and be home ready to shoot a beautifully composed still life as the light became strong enough in his studio. I could easily do a whole book on the inspiration I gained from his photographs of flowers, so great is my admiration for his ingenious eye.

While creating this book, I focused on my desire to bring others a little closer to seeing flowers the way I do. Color is the starting point, and Ive arranged the projects into color moods. Few other objects on this earth capture and reflect color the way flower petals do. From delicate pale subtleties to brilliant saturated primary hues to the smoldering depths of the darkest purples and bronze tones, flowers and foliage have it all.

Shape, of course, is vital to communicating the flowers powerful beauty. What has always grabbed me are large-scale shapes that create the wow factor in nature. Perhaps it is my theatrical side that prefers florals that read from a stage or pop out of a textile design. There are plenty of people in the world who dissolve with delight over lilies of the valley, snowdrops, or tiny forget-me-nots, and I love them, too, but mostly I want to celebrate the extoverts of the plant world. The lacy delicate sprays we can leave aside for now as we plunge into the dramatic, full-blown, bold blooms of this worldblooms that arent shy, that stand out with punch and pizzazz, that sing opera not lullabies.

In addition to giving you flower-inspired projects to work on here, I share a behind-the-scenes look into the simple processes I go through when designing and painting bold bloomsfrom inspiration to color palettes to the final renderings in the forms of fabrics, quilts, needlepoints, ribbons, and live displays. I show you my designs and ideas as they bloom.

When designing the quilts included, I had at my disposal so many outspoken blooms in the array of super-large-scale floral prints in the Kaffe Fassett Collective fabric collection and in other knockout floral fabrics I have gathered over the years. Fussy-cutting very large flowers and smaller strong ones out of the fabrics allowed me to focus attention on their boldness. It also enabled me to cherry-pick colors from fabrics to create my specific color schemes. With needlepoint, of course, I was able to create any pronounced flower I desired.

While the projects included here feature the crafts of patchwork and needlepoint, the ideas I present translate to any discipline that uses pattern and color, including mosaics, embroidery, beading, knitting, rag rugs, furniture and wall decoration, and the display of live flowers. In producing a study of the bold flower element in the arts and nature, my desire is to inspire makers of many disciplines to use this floral excitement in their own way. By dedicating this book to the bold blooms, I hope to be sending you off on a passion-filled creative journey.

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I design fabrics as part of the Kaffe Fassett Collective along with Brandon Mably and Philip Jacobs. The large florals on the table are two of Philips designs Japanese Chyrsanthemum and Gloxinia . Philip beautifully paints his designs based on classic vintage florals and other archival materials. I choose all of the colors for his fabrics, and it is one of my joyous tasks.

Some of the many source books that inform my floral designs A INSPIRATION - photo 14

Some of the many source books that inform my floral designs A INSPIRATION - photo 15

Some of the many source books that inform my floral designs A INSPIRATION - photo 16

Some of the many source books that inform my floral designs.

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INSPIRATION

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In Pursuit of Bold Blooms in Decorative Arts

Flowers have been a focus in my work for nearly as long as I can remember. They are a fragile, ephemeral element that seems born to delight us and help us realize that there is more to life than mere survival. The glow of pure color in flowers is my essential attraction to them. Of course, I am not alone. Flowers have been inspiring artists and craftspeople in nearly all creative media throughout time, in weaving, embroidery, mosaic, painting, jewelry, pottery, and wallpapers. The way flowers are depicted in decorative arts is endlessly fascinating to me.

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