When it rains it pours. With creativity, that is. Since our November-December issue hit newsstands and shops, with its line-up of 25 amazing creative coloring book for adults, we’ve learned of several more new books that hope to capture notice in this coloring-crazed world. Check ’em out!
Cotton + Steel Coloring Book: Available through Barnes & Noble. Includes 75 designs based on the powerhouse design team’s fabric lines.
Mollie Makes Colouring: The 66-page coloring book from this DIY-in-the-UK magazine (which is known for packaging some nifty crafty tool with each issue) comes with coloring pencils to get you started.
Fantastical Designs by Paula Nadelstern: This award-winning quilter’s intricate designs are now available for your coloring pleasure through C&T.
Modern Elegance by Amanda Murphy: Also available through C&T, this one has a romantic flavor, with more than 45 designs for hours of coloring beauty.
Off the Bookshelf by Samarra Khaja: Another C&T offering, this one is quirky and fun, just like Samarra.
Adorn It: This company has eight different coloring books, including many with smaller designs that can be cut out and used in other crafts. Our Bev (aka Stashy) has already been playing with an Adorn It book she got at Market (see photo below), and she loves the quality of the watercolor paper pages.
Whimsical Designs Coloring Book by Piece O’ Cake Designs’ Becky Goldsmith. Designs in this book have the dual purpose of being applique patterns. Talk about a quilters’ multi-tool!
And in Fox Chapel Publishing, we have found the mother lode! This publishing company has 12 coloring books to suit about any creative occasion. There’s one for the quilter with cats:
and the quilter
and the hipster in all of us.
And then…Crayola decided to get in on the action with these:
Crayola also offers 50 color pencils or dual-ended color pencils (which our blogger says are just so fun!). The Crayola product name–Color Escapes–hits on something profound: Playing with color, whether on directed images or in original designs on blank pieces of paper, is a moment of true escape, when we feel free to explore.
Sorta like quilters do with journals and fabric and thread, right?
Careful, world. Coloring might be a gateway drug to quilting. *wink
Quilt. Sew. Live. Breathe.
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