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Simply Color: Blue Book

Simply Color: Blue Book
By Vanessa Christenson


Simply Color: Blue - cool blue, true blue, calming blue, ocean blue, sky blue - they're all here in this irresistible addition to the series. Colorful and imaginative, each book in this rainbow series brings you 6 patchwork projects celebrating a single color. In this case, it's blue - in all its delightful variations - showcased in 4 quilts and 2 smaller, less time-consuming projects, clearly explained with 50 helpful illustrations.

If you like blue in all the many shades, you'll love this book. Embark on a kaleidoscopic adventure that takes you from baby soft blue to a rich, deep blue tone, and the many shades in between. Unleash the creative side of your quilting skills as you play with colorful fabrics in solids and prints, combine a variety of tones and tints of blue, and explore fresh new designs that are a breath of fresh air.

Ideal for adventurous beginners and intermediate quilters. Following a pattern is only a small piece of what goes into creating gorgeous patchwork projects. Each book in this series will teach you:


Color Theory - hues, tints, tones, shades, and value Color Combinations - triad, tetrad, complementary, split complementary 6 Patchwork Projects - gorgeous designs in shades of one color A crayon box for quilters! The Simply Color series features all the colors of the rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple/Gray. Collect the entire series and learn how a deeper understanding of color can inspire you and add impact to every quilting or crafting project you take on.


















Simply Color: Blue – cool blue, true blue, calming blue, ocean blue, sky blue – they're all here in this irresistible addition to the series. Colorful and imaginative, each book in this rainbow series brings you 6 patchwork projects celebrating a single color. In this case, it’s blue – in all its delightful variations – showcased in 4 quilts and 2 smaller, less time-consuming projects, clearly explained with 50 helpful illustrations.

If you like blue in all the many shades, you’ll love this book. Embark on a kaleidoscopic adventure that takes you from baby soft blue to a rich, deep blue tone, and the many shades in between. Unleash the creative side of your quilting skills as you play with colorful fabrics in solids and prints, combine a variety of tones and tints of blue, and explore fresh new designs that are a breath of fresh air.

Ideal for adventurous beginners and intermediate quilters. Following a pattern is only a small piece of what goes into creating gorgeous patchwork projects. Each book in this series will teach you:

  • Color Theory – hues, tints, tones, shades, and value
  • Color Combinations – triad, tetrad, complementary, split complementary
  • 6 Patchwork Projects – gorgeous designs in shades of one color



















Who can resist the thrill of a new box of crayons? Not us! You won't be able to resist this sweet series of books by popular blogger, fabric designer and pattern writer, Vanessa Christenson of V & Co.

In an irresistible little 8 x 8 hardcover, each packed with beautiful photographs and a series of patterns that focus on one color at a time, our series that began with Simply Color: Red, Simply Color Orange and Simply Color: Yellow follows up with Simply Color: Green. Blue and Purple will follow releasing every other month through 2015 to create a rainbow of possibilities on your sewing book shelf.

Vanessa is well known for her clever use of multiple hues in a single design, and this series showcases that design sense in each of the six books in the collection. Featuring simply one or two colors along with a neutral, the eight projects in Simply Color: Green are created with the freshness of green in mind, but can easily be swapped out for your favorite color instead.

Simple constructions techniques make these fast and fun projects perfect for a quick yet sophisticated finish. Unleash your creativity, get inspired, and stitch up your own rainbow of projects with Simply Color.