• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Melanie Testa

  • home
  • Bio+
    • about
    • Breast Cancer Advocacy
    • Contact
  • Portfolio
    • Quilts
    • Mixed Media
    • Florabunda! by RJR Fabrics
    • Meadowlark by Windham
    • Soy Wax Resist
  • In Print
    • my book – Playful Fabric Printing
    • my book – Dreaming From the Journal Page
    • my book – Inspired to Quilt
    • my DVD – Print, Collage, Quilt
    • published in
  • blog
  • Store

Semisolids

HST: My block of choice. Still.

I have created a quilt top using the Peacock Paisley prints I recently made with the help of my intern, Aishwarya (I miss her so, it was such a great experience). I printed a couple of yards of semisolids to go with them and sat down to consider what block I might use. I even asked my Facebook community to share what their favorite simple quilt block is. I found the answers to be intriguing and exciting, even. Especially the Snowball block. And Nine Patch.

But when it came down to it, I am not yet finished with my love of the Half Square Triangle. I like using a 8.5″ square, because I print my cloth in a 9×11″ size. I like being able to show off an expanse of the handprint, and I like being able to cluster the handprints together. And another thing? I like quick and easy, hardly-any-thinking-quilt-making. 🙂 I started cutting the fabrics over the weekend and completed the top this morning. Now, I just need to figure out what to do for the back.

I do feel some guilt in staying with my favorite block, as if I might grow and learn if I were to choose a different clock. But. No. I am still happy cutting my 8.5″ squares, pairing them with a lighter print and drawing the line corner to corner before putting them under the sewing machine needle. So, for now at least, I am sticking with this simple block. So there.

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

August 30, 2017 By Melanie Tagged With: Half Square Triangle, Playful Fabric Printing, Quilt, Semisolids

Solids and Semisolids

Having recently created a great portfolio based motifs with an Indian theme, I found myself in need of a single color all over print. These prints help support and draw out the multicolor prints, they allow the eye a resting place within a quilt block. And needless to say,  if you want to make a quilt, you need a bunch of these.The above photo shows the single color design in-progress. I ended up blacking out the entire background of this print before burning it as a Thermofax screen. Now, I seek to print many, many, single color designs.
And although I think single color prints are boring to print…. I still need many of them… So I choose to put my reservations on hold until I print enough to make some pretty quilts! I just need to get past this part. Wish me luck.

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

 

A post shared by Melanie Testa (@mellytesta) on Aug 20, 2017 at 2:49pm PDT

SaveSave

SaveSave

August 21, 2017 By Melanie Tagged With: Instagram, Playful Fabric Printing, Printing, Quilt, Semisolids, Solids, tFax, Thermofax, Video

Primary Sidebar

All things me:



InspiredtoQuiltSideBar

Tags

#QuiltwithLove Birds Blog Hop Breast cancer Breast Pockets cancer Craft Napa Dreaming From The Journal Page Embroidery Etsy Facebook Family Female Magazine Fitness Florabunda friends Gather your Sew-plies!! Give Away Hand Printed Hand Sewing Inspiration Instagram Journaling Meadowlark Melly Marks Multicolor Printing Multicolor Stamps NYC Peach Playful Fabric Printing Procion MX dye Quilt Quilting RJR Fabrics Sew-plies Sew Along Stamps Stencil Studio Supplies Teaching The 20 The Clever Guild Video Windham Fabrics

Footer

Copyright © 2022 ·Foodie Pro Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress · Log in