Welcome Home

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Awaken your senses to a new appreciation of colour as you enter the studio of one of the world'sleading fabric and quilt designers. Updated in a visually-exciting edition, Welcome Home Kaffe Fassett shows you how to combine rich colours and textures to create your own decorative accents including designer cushions and quilts and whimsical rag rugs.

Kaffes passion for vivid and intricate design has inspired artistic knitting patterns, stunning needlepoint, unique fabrics, fantastic mosaics and fabulous patchwork quilts.

In these pages he reveals the colour theory and sources of inspiration behind his visually exciting work. Kaffe's historic one-man textile art exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art has been photographed exclusively for this book.

Delight in the nine projects including a completely new project for a full size snowball quilt. Each design comes with clear step-by-step instructions, how-to diagrams and templates.

Author Bio

Kaffe Fassett is internationally-acclaimed as one of todays leading contemporary colorists and textile designers. Color and pattern are his obsessions, with his first venture into textiles being in yarns and knitting, and knit-garment design. Soon, his expertise extended to needlepoint, fabric, and quilt design. Kaffe Fassetts unique garments have been commissioned by Barbra Streisand, Lauren Bacall, Ali McGraw, Shirley Maclaine, Helen Frankenthaler, and many more. His fabric lines for Westminster Fabrics are highly sought after by quilters worldwide.