Kaffe Fassett: Creating in Colour
It’s fair to say that our next interview is with someone who needs no introduction. After following this artist for years several of our students &#; and us included &#; said that they had often referred to his work and drawn much inspiration from his unique designs. So, we decided to get in touch. We are immensely excited to share with you, our interview with the formidable and hugely inspiring Kaffe Fassett.
Born in San Francisco in the late 30s, Kaffe began studying fine art at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. Although he’d won a scholarship to study there he later swapped this for an opportunity to paint in London. Soon his artistic expression and creativity would see him explore other mediums. After an inspiring visit to Scotland, Kaffe would learn how to knit (on his way home), develop his own designs and go on to become featured in Vogue Knitting magazine.
It was his passion for colour that led him into textiles. As a multimedia artist specialising in knitting, needlepoint and patchwork, Kaffe has devoted much of his life to these crafts and continues to encourage others through his art, publications, lectures, workshops and exhi
Daughters of Norway, November/December
BM: The reason the book&#;s called Quilts in Sweden is we shot the quilts at a most amazing location called Skansen, it&#;s a museum of outdoor houses that have been brought together in one area at the edge of Stockholm, and it was the colors and the surroundings&#;.
KF: It was the painted rooms that I really went for. Ambiance for our quilts.
KC: Did those rooms in any way influence the designs of the particular quilts that you made for that project?
KF: Yes, actually, they did; I had been there a few times and I really noticed that there were a lot of really wonderful wood tones, a lot of those sort of ambers and woody tones, as well as the painted furniture and the painted walls. So, we knew we had a pretty free reign because there were so many moods.
KC: What challenges do contemporary quilters face in recreating some of the designs that you have put together?
BM: The color!
KF: Some people never move out of a neutral world, or a brown cowgirl world. We&#;re about an English chintz look, or part of our look is&#; part of it is kind of oriental, so it takes very distinct patterns and strong colors. And, that can be a challenge to
Women&#;s Weekly, April
Kaffe Fassett is one of the most influential living textile artists and the best selling author of knitting, mosaic and patchwork titles. He has hosted his own TV series, Glorious Colour, and was the first living textile artist to have a one man show at London&#;s V&A. His extraordinary passion and insatiable appetite for colour is apparent whatever medium he uses, whether he is painting, knitting, creating patchwork, needlepoint or mosaics, Kaffe perceives all his work in the same way &#; as the opportunity to play with colours and patterns.
Hailing from sunny California, he began his training as a fine artist in Boston, before moving to London to paint in the mid sixties. His first venture into textiles was knitting. On a trip to a Scottish woollen mill with celebrated fashion designer of the time, Bill Gibb, Kaffe was inspired by the colours in the landscape and, finding the same colours at the mill in Shetland wool, he bought some yarn and knitting needles. A passenger on the train back to London taught him how to knit and the rest is history!
His first design had the ultimate accolade of appearing in Vogue. Within a short time, Missoni was co
Welcome to the Kaffe Hat Box Quilt-Along, where we will create a beautiful wall quilt using Kaffe fabric, Kaffe decorative stitches, lots of color and creativity! This beginner-friendly Quilt-Along will teach you the basic patchwork & quilting techniques and is relatively fast to make. As Kaffe Fassett would say: Let’s bring color to our world!
In our first part of this project we would like to introduce our BERNINA Kaffe Edition models. Secondly, we start with the fabric preperations and provide you with the templates. This is a tutorial shared by our colleagues from
Structure of the Kaffe Hat Box Quilt-Along
We will share new parts of the Quilt-Along here on the blog regularly. If you missed any part, don’t worry, you can find all available instructions here:
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