drumroll please!
In Houston, Texas Susanne Woods unfurls a giant banner, a rainbow of fabric swatches sprinkled with solid colored cards. She’s setting up the Lucky Spool Media booth at fall 2019 quilt market.
In distribution centers from California to New Jersey, Amazon workers cut open fresh boxes of hardcover books destined to fulfill long-awaited preorders.
In The Netherlands a UPS truck backs up to my humble home. Five boxes, customs fees, a signature - they’re mine!
The Quilter’s Field Guide to Color: A Hands-On Workbook for Mastering Fabric Selection is finally here. I hope your very own copy is winging its way to you now or very soon. Thank you for your patience and faith as we’ve watched and waited. When you crack open your copy, you’ll find a familiar message softly printed on the very first page. Something I knew you readers would recognize. A shorthand between the two of us for what’s to come.
I started writing a version of this book so very long ago. The quilts that illustrate the book go way back to my first quilt made in 2010 and right up through 2018.
I’m sure you won’t remember some secret piecing, binding and finishing from early that year. I was so glad I had purchased my longarm a few months earlier. What a convenient way to finish the book quilts quickly and professionally.
I made three quilts specifically for The Quilter’s Field Guide to Color. They’re examples of how you can turn the patchwork made in the book’s color exercises into quilts. The book is really about personal discovery with color and fabric, but it does include patterns for the book quilts. You know we couldn’t resist!
I have so much more to say and so much more to show you, but I want to give you time to receive your book and dive in. If you are located in my part of the world, feel free to direct your local quilt shop to my Workshops page, which has information about scheduling a trunk show and book signing event. I’ll be bringing copies to sell and sign at such events, so that’s one way to get a looksee. It would be my pleasure to meet you!
In 2020 I’ll be hosting Quilter’s Color Quest, a six-month inspirational blog series to encourage you to use your book. Together, we’ll take your field guide on an adventure, exploring color, discovering where, when and how to make color yours. I can’t wait! And I’m so amazed and grateful that the time to share this book has come at last.
Many Blessings,
Rachel Hauser