{"id":235,"date":"2007-05-04T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/kaffe-fassett-confusion\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:42:48","slug":"kaffe-fassett-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/kaffe-fassett-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaffe Fassett Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While buying the Pokemon Diamond game guide for the child, I couldn’t help tossing a quilt book for myself into the virtual cart. Both books arrived earlier this week. In a lame attempt to avoid work, I started reading Kaffe Fassett’s Quilt Road<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Good<\/span>: gorgeous fabrics, wonderful designs
The Bad<\/span>: The fabrics are only shown in the quilts and referred to extensively as if there were a chart of the fabrics laid out on a page of the book, which there isn’t. After the first page, the text becomes very confusing.
The UGLY<\/span>: I get the distinct impression Kaffe was just trying to churn out another book to coinccide with the new line of [mystery] fabrics. I dislike intensely ‘cheap dates’ and this book is not up to the others in terms of content and careful editing.<\/p>\n

Still, I like this book, because the quilts are happy. He really has a way with those large and vibrant prints. My favorite part of the text is where Kaffe says “…which come from a wonderful antique book of 19th century book [sic] of French prints that we purchased at a textile fair in New York.” Even, though the editing is bad, this comment reminds me to get inspiration from other media and what I see around me.<\/p>\n

The quilt designs, and this is mostly a pattern book, range widely and have a lot of styles that I enjoy: big blocks that show off the fabric, mosaic floor tile looking quilts, machine applique and some innovative ways of using simply shaped pieces.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite quilts is Wallpaper Strips Quilt by Kaffe Fassett. You can see a picture of it (gorgeous picture, but not showing the whole quilt) over at Yarnstorm<\/a>. She also has some fab flower photos, BTW. the quilt pattern is simply a bunch of strips lined up and sewn together randomly, then put next to each other and sewn together again. I decided that I will do this with the leftover dot strips once I am done with the Pineapple. Why not? Much better than having a bunch of 1.75″ strips laying around.<\/p>\n

I also like the Crosses Quilt, which is made from 9patches, but colored in such a way that tic-tac-toe like crosses stand out. This artist has a view<\/a> that will show you what I mean. Very clever!<\/p>\n

Between this book and the Flowering Snowball (Cross Block), I looked at the Hancock’s catalog in a whole new way today. Those big 1960s style prints were just screaming at me. I resisted, because I would have to buy a boatload of them when I could really be happy with a large packet of 6″ squares. Still, it amazes what looking at something will do to how I see things.<\/p>\n

Note from 5\/26\/2007: I found this link<\/a> for the Lilies fabrics and the Lille collection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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