{"id":3479,"date":"2009-11-10T06:17:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T13:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:09:49","slug":"book-review-pat-sloan-color-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/book-review-pat-sloan-color-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Pat Sloan Color Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really short review that I may beef up later. Pat Sloan&#8217;s book on color is easy to read, though it will take more time if you go through the exercises.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/4681728.Pat_Sloan_s_Take_the_Fear_Out_of_Color\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51tLt5fpRvL._SX106_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pat Sloan's Take the Fear Out of Color (Leisure Arts#4286)\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/4681728.Pat_Sloan_s_Take_the_Fear_Out_of_Color\">Pat Sloan&#8217;s Take the Fear Out of Color<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/708406.Pat_Sloan\">Pat Sloan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/77265919\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br \/>\nI liked this book, because:<br \/>\n1. she had the same quilt pattern made in different fabrics. This is a great technique, because it is easy to dismiss a pattern when a quiltmaker doesn&#8217;t like the fabrics. By showing different fabrics, the reader can overlook one of the colorways that may not appeal.<br \/>\n2. she didn&#8217;t talk much about value. It isn&#8217;t that I don&#8217;t think value is important, but I think that people can get bogged down by value if they are just starting out with color. Pat really gives the reader confidence to make color choices.<br \/>\n3. she didn&#8217;t bad mouth other ways of choosing color. All ways are valid and Pat shows her way and doesn&#8217;t bill it as anything different.<br \/>\n4. she encouraged the reader to start with colors that s\/he likes<br \/>\n5. she uses an inspiration notebook to start.<\/p>\n<p>It is bright and cheerful book as well.<\/p>\n<p>There are projects included which I just used to expand my view of what the author was saying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/591995-jayel\">View all my reviews, including non-quilt related reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really short review that I may beef up later. Pat Sloan&#8217;s book on color is easy to read, though it will take more time if you go through the exercises. Pat Sloan&#8217;s Take the Fear Out of Color by Pat Sloan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked this book, because: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/book-review-pat-sloan-color-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review: Pat Sloan Color Book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}