meadowlark blog hop give away

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I am so friggin’ excited to finally be working in the textile industry and to have a line of fabrics coming out with my name on the selvedge. I mean, so, friggin’, excited. 

Spring Quilt Market 2014 served to ‘launch’ my premiere fabric line, Meadowlark by Windham Fabrics which will be officially release this coming October 2014. It is used to create ‘buzz’.  Talking about buzz, check out my ‘look book’! Or this video that Victoria Findlay Wolfe did at Market (she is part of this blog hop too)!

Being the interactive, show and tell driven person that I am, I set up shop at quilt market to demo the techniques I use in the printing of the Meadowlark line, and I surrounded myself with the most awesome, beautifully created samples that I possibly could. And I must say, I hardly sewed even a single stitch of the beautiful work seen in my booth. I feel absolutely blessed to be able to work with some of the most driven, detail oriented artists and quilters in this industry. 

I have been told that my sample team and I used the most fabric ever, in preparation for the launch of a fabric line. Woot!! If you ask me, too much is just about enough.

Market was a whirlwind of activity. I invited many of the superstars in our industry to come to my booth and print or to say, ‘Hello’.  I had so much fun and smiled so much that my face hurt at the end of the weekend. 

In celebration of the launch of the Meadowlark line, we are giving away Fat Stacks (10″ square of each of the 26 fabrics in the line) and 3 copies of Dreaming From the Journal Page. I will also be giving away some 5″ Charm packs from my own ‘stash’ (Windham cuts these as giveaway at Market and I nabbed some). I will give away one copy of dreaming here, the other two will be given to whichever blog on the hop that receives the most comments. We will use the hashtag #MellyMeadowlark, so if you want to spread the word on Facebook and other social networking sites please use this tag. Leave a comment to enter a chance to win some of my pretties and don’t hesitate to ask your local quilt store to carry my line. In fact, you might just forward a link to this post:

https://melanietesta.com/2014/06/meadowlark-blog-hop-give-away/ ‎

I honestly cannot wait for you to get your hands on my fabrics and show me your skillz. In the meantime, check out what my design team has to say on the matter…

Melly – June 2 
Vivien Zepf – June 2 
Chrissie D – June 3 
Sue Bleiweiss – June 4  
Leslie Tucker Jenison  June 5 
Jamie Fingal – June 6 
Lyric Kinard – June 7 
Jen Eskridge – June 8 
Jacqui Holmes Calhoun – June 8  <——-Jacqui will be guest posting here!
Stephanie Forsyth – June 9 
Victoria Findlay Wolfe – June 10 
Teri Lucas – June 11 
Scott Hansen June 12
Helen Eckard – June 12 <——-Helen will be guest posting here!

 

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Published by Melanie (Melly) Testa

I am an artist who loves the outdoors. I dancewalk with confidance. My artistic medium of choice is using, thickened Procion MX dye, to multicolor print my own cotton cloth. Appliqué is the bomb diggity.

90 thoughts on “meadowlark blog hop give away”

  1. Anxious to see more. Blog hops might be a great distraction while I wait for this broken arm to mend. Any advice for a one armed quilter?

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  3. Hey Melly….it is so awesome to have your dream come true! You have worked so hard,and your reward has been given in this beautiful fabric line..

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  8. Please tell us the name of the song on your launch video!
    Love the song….and your fabric!
    Best regards from Gail in Wa State

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  9. Congratulations Melly! What a wonderful feeling to finally have one of your major life goals come true. And it’ beautiful fabric! Can’t wait to get my hands on some! xo

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  10. I’m so proud of what you are doing! Congratulations, and my very best wishes to you on a successful launch! I hope this is just the very beginning of a long and happy career in the textile biz!

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  15. How exciting for you! You are such an inspiration in so many ways. I am especially impressed by your pursuit and attainment of your goal to be a fabric designer. I can’t wait until these fabrics are available!

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  19. Melly,
    The fabrics you have created are scrumptious!
    The colors are so deep and delicious and the samples you show, created by some of your very talented fabric/quilting/mixed media artist friends are tremendous!
    I can’t wait to get my hands on some of those lusciuous purples and reds and blues! They make me think of berries growing wild!

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  21. Melly! I love your fabrics! You’ve done a great job! Congratulations on reaching for the stars and grabbing them! You are awesome!

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  23. I love your new line and am so glad you have come so far. I have watched your blog for a long time and feel like I know you. Obviously I don’t, but I still root for your successes. You go girl!!!

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  32. 🙂 There isn’t an icon to express how happy I am for you. I know how hard you have worked to make this dream a reality and thrilled that I was able to catch glimspes of progress along the way. I cannot wait for this line to be at my quilt store. I have already requested it and have been bookmarking things to make. Savor this and thne get busy on your next line. xoxoxo (I have your books, so please don’t put me in the drawing. Let someone else have my chance.)

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  43. Oh yes, yes, yes! Throw my name into this beautiful bevy of bountiful goodness! Would love to own a Fat Stack, a Charm Pack, even just a piece of the selvage of your fabulous new fabric, or a copy of this wonderful book! Oh, yes! Throw my name into your magic hat!

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