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The Quilter's Color Club, C&T, 2011, 96 pages, $27.95 + $4.95 Priority Mail postage.

My new color book is inspired by more than a dozen years of teaching color workshops, designing patterns, and writing about color. The Color Club format, with a series of "Give It a Try!" color studies and dozens of "Color Cues," will open your eyes to fresh ways to work with color, on your own or in a group. Eight projects help you put the theory into practice, and a gallery of quilts from dozens of talented quilters will motivate and inspire you.

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. You can usually find this, my first book on color, used on Amazon.

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.

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. Click image for larger view.

You’ll work the collage for the right front over a layer of Osnaburg and lining, then surface stitch and wash the entire piece to create the crinkly texture. The left front and back are also layered and lined, but are channel-stitched.

Happy Jacket

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.

$10.00 + tax + postage

Black Opals & Ribbon Candy

Triangle paper and a row-by-row construction make this quilt suitable for all skill levels. This pattern includes specific fabric guidelines, but you can use other types of fabrics, as long as they are the values listed.

$10.00 + tax + postage

This complex-looking quilt is surprisingly easy to make: you sew “basic blocks” consisting of one center fabric and strips of another fabric to surround the center, then “whack” the blocks off-center and reconfigure the units. Follow the “luminosity” recipe, explained in the directions, to create a quilt that glows.

The graphic impact of this shadowed-circle quilt is the result of contrasts in value, color, visual texture, and pattern. You’ll learn how to isolate areas of your fabrics, iron-baste the circles to freezer paper, and create the shadows that give the design a sense of depth and volume. Includes a full-size, card-stock template.

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.

$13.00 + tax + postage