Kaffe Fassett has a new quilting book out Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts: 23 Original Quilt Designs
For this stop on the blog tour - Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy give their take on how the Kaffe Fassett Collective fabric designs come together:
Kaffe: I hand paint the designs that are put into repeat for my quilting fabrics. I do not do a cohesive collection of coordinated prints each season, as most fabric designers do. Instead, my fabric line is an ever growing palette of color with prints derived from sources from antique textiles to the natural world. I work with Philip Jacob and Brandon Mably in helping develop their colors and patterns as a complement to my own. Liza Prior Lucy, my partner on Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts (SSSQ) and other quilt books, keeps track of the colors and patterns in print from Philip, Brandon and I, making sure that the range of colors and the scale of the patterns are well balanced. In this way, she is a kind of editor of the Kaffe Fassett Collective. On occasion, she influences us by requesting types of patterns and colors.
Liza: In making the quilts the partnership is a true collaboration with either Kaffe or I initiating a design or palette. Usually Kaffe takes the lead on palette, while I make the decisions about geometry, but the opposite is sometimes the case. A few of the quilts are almost completely the work of one or the other. In SSSQ for example, Damask Quarters is my work and the Stripescape, Kaffe’s.
This book is a very thorough quilting design book – the designs are all based on a geometric designs and play with colour and pattern. Some sewing experience is required to tackle these projects as the techniques section is rather brief. However each design is given full instructions – including excellent and necessary layout drawings which give a visual idea of how the quilt blocks and sections go together. I must admit I would like to see some of these quilts made in alternative fabrics – not just Kaffe Fasset fabrics – but thats probably where a joining the quilt along would be a benefit – you can see others interpretations of his designs.
