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Deborah Boschert’s Florabunda!

Deborah and I are good friends. Check out her insta, FB and Etsy.

In the photograph below, I had just published Inspired to Quilt, which you can see on a banner-ad above Pokey and Deborah’s heads. That was more than 10 years ago! Such good times!  [I have since published two more books, Dreaming from the Journal Page and Playful Fabric Printing] Deborah has  published her own book too, Art Quilt Collage which covers many of the techniques she used in making the above wall art series. I highly recommend it.

This photo captures the first time we met and we were wearing the same t-shirt! We hadn’t planned it!

What pleases me the most about Deborah’s work is that her aesthetic is crisp, clean, playful and her use of stitch is very communicative, as if it were its own language.

This is what Deborah has to say about working with Florabunda!,  “As an artist, I love using botanical shapes in my work and the leaves, flowers, vines and patterns in this collection are beautifully realistic but have a true hand-designed quality about them.  The subtle chevron print may be my new favorite fabric. It’s perfect to ground a design and the colors are familiar but slightly unexpected. You’ll definitely see Florabunda pop up in my work in the future!

Check out Deborah’s corner of the Hop here.


June 7–Tiffany Hayes

June 8–Deborah Boschert

June 9–Sara Mika

June 10–Lyric Kinard

June 11–Kathy York 

June 11–Teri Lucas

June 12–Leslie Tucker Jenison 

June 12–Heidi Kelly 

June 13—Jamie Fingal 

June 14–Debby Brown 

June 14–Susan Brubaker Knapp 

June 14– David Gilleland

June 16—-Melanie Testa Here! 

Please follow RJR Fabrics and Quilty Box  and me, @mellytesta on Instagram! That is where we will host most of the the giveaways (my blog will have some extra swag).

And hey, if you don’t know who Quilty Box is, you should! I am their featured artist for the month of June. They are a quilterly subscription service that introduces you to the latest products, fabric lines and patterns, by up and coming quilt makers and artists. They will be giving a Melly Box away to one of you off this blog on June 16. In the meantime, get ready to see what my colleagues made!

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June 8, 2018 By Melanie Tagged With: #QuiltwithLove, Blog Hop, Deborah Boschert, Florabunda, Melly Marks Playfully, Playful Fabric Printing, RJR Fabrics

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  1. Heidi

    June 12, 2018 at 4:19 pm

    These are so exciting! I love how she took small parts of your fabric and create these very unique pieces of art!!

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