He has published many books, including over 20 beautifully photographed quilt pattern volumes which make it easy to produce one of his trademark designs.

Since 1999, Glorious Color has specialized in the quilt fabric and books created by Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy. We would each be working on designing the Green Diamonds pattern from Kaffe’s Quilts in Ireland book. KAFFE FASSETT, renowned for his colorwork, shares his vision of craft in frequent lecture tours, exhibitions, and television appearances. If you are new to patchwork and need a step-by-step guide, this book provides it more than generously. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps.By the end of the class, everyone had a basic layout designed for their quilt that they were pleased with, though maybe not all the blocks were cut or put up.

There is so much to learn and glean each time you pick up a quilting book, especially as a seamstress. He freely admitted that he was fortunate to grow up in the 1950’s in an atypical (even for California) home and school environment that supported and encouraged his natural artistic creativity.He was christened Frank Havrah Fassett but as a teenager decided to change his name to the more artistic sounding Kaffe (rhymes with safe) after an Egyptian character in a children’s book. In the mid 1980’s when I was deep into knitting, he came out with his landmark knitting design book. One of the surprising comments that Kaffe made at the beginning of the class was that more often than not, he noticed that students would make a quilt in the colors of the clothes that they wore, and he was quite right.