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Lecture Description:
Learn to build color palettes for your quilts that create a specific mood, are dynamic, and that tell a story… your story. There is no reason to be afraid of color, yet many of us don’t know where to start. I will give you tools and ideas to gain confidence in creating your own color combinations. I will share how I experiment with temperature, hue, and value to select palettes specific to each of my projects. And I will show how these same concepts were successfully applied in award winning quilts from previous QuiltCon shows. My understanding of color has been acquired through a lifelong series of experiences, observations, and investigations. Learn to recognize and build upon your own distinctive awareness of this most relative medium in art: color. Amy Struckmeyer is a designer and artist living in Oak Park, Illinois. She presented this lecture for the first time at QuiltCon2024. About Amy: Amy’s love for textiles and making began early in her Waldorf School education with lessons in knitting, weaving, and sewing. Her later education and profession in architecture strongly influences her design work and creative process. She designed her first quilt in 2008, finished it four years later, and has been making quilts ever since. While she values craft and tradition in design, she is energized by modern interpretations and creative remixes. Her recent work is rooted in an investigation of geometry and color. Amy has contributed original sewing and quilt patterns to issues of Modern Patchwork, Stitch magazine, and Quiltfolk Patterns; authored a book of modern appliqué projects; and had her quilts published in Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century and Curated Quilts magazine. She is honored to have a quilt in the Modern Quilt Guild Collection of the International Quilt Museum. She shares her work and creative process on Instagram as @formwork. website: https://www.amystruckmeyer.com |
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