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This book covers all the material in my Color! Color! Color! workshop, plus much more. Learn to use the language of color - value, temperature, and intensity - and get to know your way around the color wheel, an invaluable tool for all quilters. You'll also find a gallery of fabulous quilts, strategies for building color palettes, tips for avoiding the pitfalls, and six quilt projects.

Color for Your Home, Sunset Books, 2000, 144 pages

This book offers a step-by-step approach to using color in your home. It begins with Color Basics, simple concepts that allow you to think about and work with color in new ways. Color Strategies spells out the process for building a color scheme, starting with your givens, gathering and editing your materials, and ending with a cohesive decorating plan. Color Ideas offers a gallery of beautiful rooms in a wide variety of decorating styles. I handpainted the color rings, color swatches, and color palettes used throughout.

The premise in this Sunset series is simple: six "before" kitchens, transformed by light remodeling and decorating projects, including a granite tile counter, beadboard island, fresco walls, concrete counter, microwave cabinet, and freestanding pantry. More than 60 projects and quick decorating ideas. (My kitchen, "Retro Active," was one of the kitchens we "reinvented.")

Reinvent Your Kids' Rooms, Sunset Books, 2002, 144 pages

The projects for these six rooms include lots of soft furnishing and quiltmaking ideas: a simple patchwork duvet cover, denim duvet cover with Corral Log Cabin blocks, overalls bib valance, slipcovered lamp shade, faux chenille pillow, and boxed floor cushions. You'll also find plenty of paint projects, storage, and innovative elements such as a metal wall and tool-chest desk. It's my favorite of the Reinvent books!

This surface-stitched vest with asymmetrical front, collar band, and tie closure provides a great canvas for color and design work.

The back of the pattern lists yardages for sizes S-XXXX. In addition to the fabric, you'll need a sewing machine with walking foot, rotary equipment, fine pins, and 5 or 6 spools of various colored threads.

Double Four-Patch

This classic Amish pattern uses warm and cool colors in a range of light, medium, and dark values. For the scrappy look you see here, collect a variety of fabrics to total the amounts listed on the back of the pattern. The fabrics in my quilt are hand-dyed, but prints, batiks, and commercial solids work well too.

$9.00 (includes postage/mailer) To order, e-mail cebarnes@sbcglobal.net

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Pairing different fabrics—light batiks and dark stripes—creates this graphic design. You can use any two groups of fabrics, such as florals and geometrics, as long as one group is light and the other dark

The in-and-out pattern is the result of a nifty construction technique: From one light and one dark strip you get six quarter-units—three with the stripe on the outside and three with the stripe on the inside. It's magic!

Parfait Dreams

Traditionally, the Connecticut block consists of a square surrounded by small and large triangles. My version uses main and alternate blocks of the same size, set on point, and side and corner setting pieces. This is a scrap quilt: the materials listed are for one main block, one alternate block, two side-setting pieces, and four corner-setting pieces.

$9.00 (includes postage/mailer) To order, e-mail cebarnes@sbcglobal.net

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I gave my jacket this lighthearted name because that’s how I felt when I was making it: happy! You’ll need a sweatshirt two sizes larger than you would normally wear, because the surface stitching significantly shrinks the sweatshirt fabric. Choose a variety of fat quarters and a special trim for the chenille circles. See “Lectures & Workshops” for a complete description and supply list.

Christine's Color Wheel

I've had a wonderful response to the color wheel I use in my workshops, and it's now available to quilters. My wheel includes an 8 1/2 x 11-inch version of my fabric color wheel (printed on the highest quality luster paper), plus a 4-page brochure of color concepts, combinations (split complementary, analogous, triadic, to name a few), tips, and strategies for traditional and contemporary quilters.

$15.50 (includes postage/mailer). To order, send a check to me at this address:

208 Hill Street, Grass Vally, CA 95945. For more info, e-mail me at cebarnes@sbcglobal.net