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    Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor
    Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor
    Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor
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    Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor

    By Carol Porter and Rebecca Hansen

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    Seaside Quilts shows you how to transform your dwelling into a relaxing shore retreat, with sea-inspired linens and home décor. Discover charming ways to enhance your bedroom, bathroom, kitchen or family space with coordinating seaside hues and matching coastal themes. This book presents dozens of simple, beautiful projects that anyone can make, with inspirational ideas for sewing, painting and crafting your love affair with the ocean. .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDesign Originals
    Release dateJan 1, 2019
    ISBN9781607654872
    Seaside Quilts: Quilting & Sewing Projects for Beach-Inspired Décor
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    Carol Porter

    Carol C. Porter was born and raised in Washington State. She has taught quiltmaking since 1988 and currently teaches a variety of classes at quilt shops around the Pacific Northwest.

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      Book preview

      Seaside Quilts - Carol Porter

      Introduction

      If you’ve picked up this book, we know you love the beach. Perhaps you are drawn to the vast array of colors that can be found along the shoreline, or the wildlife you’ve encountered and the items you’ve collected. Or perhaps you are drawn by wonderful memories of friends and family and the activities you shared together. Seaside Quilts is an adventure through the art of quilt making and bringing what you love about the ocean to light in your quilt designs.

      Every project springs directly from seaside inspirations, which are featured at the beginning of each project. Discover how to use favorite wildlife or shell shapes to create appliqué or quilting designs. Learn to build a color palette based on the subtle pastels of beach glass, blue and white ocean waves, or tan and brown sandy shores. Transform a favorite beach scene into a quilt top. Written instructions and illustrations will guide you along the way as you turn your inspiration and ideas into pieces that perfectly capture your love for the beach.

      Along the way, you will find wonderful tips for showcasing beach collections, creating beach-themed home décor pieces, and infusing rooms with seaside style.

      This book is geared to empower creativity and stimulate ideas. Take what you learn about going from inspiration to design to create your very own seaside quilts and projects. We love using our quilts and designs to reflect our style and personality, and we encourage you to do the same.

      We invite you to join us as we share our combined creativity, excitement, awe, peace, and discovery that come from Seaside Quilts.

      Carol C. Porter and Rebecca J. Hansen

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      Inspiration:

      Turning Ideas into Designs

      When designing a quilt or a room, figuring out the first step is often the biggest challenge. One of the first things you must do is select your color palette, but this itself can also be a challenge when pulling together fabric for a quilt or for implementing designs for home decorating. Knowledge of color theory can help you establish a platform for your design ideas. We encourage you to select colors that surround you, that attract you, and that help you set your personal theme. To set a seaside theme, consider the natural elements and vistas of the seashore for color and texture clues. Examine the images found here and consider how you might be able to use elements from them to develop a color scheme. Then see how Beckie applied these inspirations in the design of the quilts used throughout her beach home.

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      Sourcing the Palette

      To set a seaside theme, consider the natural elements and vistas of the seashore for color and texture clues.

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      Shells and Beach Glass

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      Rocks

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      Glass Floats

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      Sand

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      Waves

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      Trropical Fish

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      Sunrise and Sunset

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      Be willing to be surprised by what might suggest a color palette, such as beach-inspired fabric, postcards, photographs, artwork, and glassware.

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      Flora and Fauna

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      Shore Birds

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      Tidal Pool

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      Glassware

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      Notice the color palette associated with beach activities like sunbathing, boating, surfing, kite flying, reading, playing in the sand, and celebrating with a bonfire.

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      Umbrellas

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      Beach Bags

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      Beach Towels

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      Beach Balls

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      Surfboards

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      Bonfire

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      Boats

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      A trip to the paint store will yield paint chips with names like Ocean Breeze, Surf’s Up, Seaport, Tranquil Sea, Caribbean Green, Coastal Mist, Sunrise Beach, Coral Dune, Malibu Peach, and on and on. Throughout the book we will make reference to those things that were influential in our design and color choices.

      For purposes of design and construction, we were attracted to quilt blocks that have seaworthy names:

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      Ocean Waves

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      Storm at Sea

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      Summer Winds

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      Birds in the Air

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      Nautilus

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      Northwind

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      Port & Starboard

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      Flying Geese

      Seaside Inspiration

      for Quilters

      The projects throughout this book are infused with coastal colors and contain appliqué and quilting motifs inspired by beach and ocean wildlife. Beckie built the design of her beach home around these same inspirations, creating a look that perfectly complements her sea-inspired quilts. Let Beckie’s use of color and beach collections in her home décor spark your creativity to build a design around your own seaside quilt.

      The master bedroom. The Seaside Serenade quilt makes a gorgeous centerpiece for the master bedroom. Complementary green and peach colors were used to paint the walls, creating a refreshing palette that brings to mind foamy ocean waves and seashells.

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      The master bath. The adjoining bath carries over the green and peach paint colors from the master bedroom. Antique light fixtures with peach shades continue the color scheme. The windows surrounding the bathtub are etched with an underwater fish scene to obscure the view inside. A wonderful surprise is the reflection of the fish

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