Playful Fabric Printing Blog Hop

Disclosure/Disclaimer: 

Chris Dodsley of mbCD is a friend of Melanie Testa, co-author of Playful Fabric Printing. Melly provided mbCD with a selection of hand printed fabrics to make a sample quilt top for Fall Quilt Market 2016, all other materials used to make the quilt are from mbCD's personal stash. This NOT a review of Playful Fabric Printing although this post does include a giveaway of the book provided by Crafting a Life, LLC.    In all other respects, this post is for informational purposes only, all opinions are mbCD's own and no payment or commission is received on click-throughs to links shared.  

Fancy printing your own fabric?  If you do, there's a new book just released and I'm told it's perfect for first timers and also for the experienced fabric hand printer.  

What's it called?  It's Playful Fabric Printing by Carol Soderlund and Melanie Testa.

I've known co-author Melly for several years now, we met at the NYC Metro Modern Quilters Guild and worked together in May 2014 when I made a Quilt Market sample for Melly's first fabric collection, Meadowlark - my Remains of the Day quilt. 

Read more about my circular quilt design, process and finish in these two blog posts:
Top Secret, Ssshhhh - Quilt Market Sneak Peek

Remains Of The Day - The Meadowlark Collection Blog Hop

I love this photo of me and Melly showing off my Remains of the Day quilt at our June 2014 Guild meeting.

Hand Printed Fabric

Back in October last year, Melly gave me a pack of her hand printed fabric rectangles to play with.  This print is a half-drop floral. 

Melly wanted me to make a quilt top that she could take along to Fall Quilt Market.  

Following her brief, I put together a simple half rectangle quilt using coordinating solids from my stash. 

After Quilt Market, Melly returned the top to me and I made it up into a quilt that I machine and hand quilted using Aurifil threads.

 Here's the result, probably one of my favourite quilts ever. 

  

I've a lot to share in this post so I'm liberally scattering some finished quilt photos throughout but if you'd like to know about my process from design brief to finish, click through to my Colour Drop Quilt post where I go into more detail and share a no fuss Half Rectangle Triangle Block technique.

The Book

Although I've been privileged in working with Melly's sample fabrics, I want to be really clear here that I haven't got my hands on a copy of the book yet which means I'm not able to review it for you.  Instead, I'm sharing some images from the book publisher's website. Crafting a Life.

The Co-Authors

Facebook Community Group

Melly and Carol have also set up Playful Fabric Printing Facebook Community, a class where they'll gather fabric printers to share their work and get feedback on their processes.  

Click this link to request to join

The Giveaway - has now ended


Win a copy of Playful Fabric Printing from Crafting a Life - open to US residents only

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For a chance to win a copy of Playful Fabric Printing, leave a comment telling me your favourite motif design.

For an additional chance to win follow my blog in some way: blog reader; Bloglovin; Facebook; Instagram; or my Newsletter; and leave a comment letting me know.

NOTE: Please be sure I can access your email.  

If you're a WordPress, Google+, no-reply or anonymous commenter, or maybe you're just not sure, please add your email address to each comment.  If I can't find you I'll immediately draw another winner.

This book giveaway is open to US residents only and closes on Tuesday, 7 February at 10.00 am (EST).  A winner will be chosen from the comments using a random number generator, contacted via email and shared at the bottom of this post.  The book will be mailed to the winner directly from the publisher, Crafting a Life

Best of luck!

AND THE WINNER IS!!!

The winner of the Playful Fabric Printing Book Giveaway is comment #12 by Rosemarys Child.

Many congratulations Susan,  I've sent you an email asking for your snail mail address so be sure to check your junk folder if it isn't in your inbox. :D

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Visit all the blogs on the Blog Tour
to catch the Motif Design Challenge

Motif Design Challenge
Each day on the blog tour the other participants will be sharing a vocabulary of marks, colours, images that could be used to make tools and print fabrics. A variety of media including Super Sharpies, pen and ink, acrylic paint on copy paper, china marker on toothy paper, etc along with printing examples such as  Fun foam stamps, Thermofax screens, stencils, or monoprints and printing dye or fabric paint onto cloth or paper.

Playful Fabric Printing Blog Tour Schedule:

Monday, 23 January

Melly Testa

Tuesday, 24 January
Carol Soderlund

Wednesday, 25 January
Lisa Chin @Something About Nothing

Thursday, 26 January
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer @Balzer Designs

Friday, 27 January
Judy Coates Perez 

Saturday, 28 January
Carrie Bloomston
Chris Dodsley @made by ChrissieD ⇦YOU ARE HERE 🙋
 blog hop round-up - Melly Testa

Sunday, 29 January
Lynn Krawczyk @Smudged Design Studio 
blog hop round-up - Carol Soderlund

Monday, 30 January
Leslie Tucker Jenison 

Tuesday, 31 January
Pokey Bolton

My Quilt

Don't forget to click through to this post to read more about my process and see my full Colour Drop Quilt photoshoot.

Clicking on an image will take you to a new page of crafty goodness :)

Disclosure/Disclaimer: 

Chris Dodsley of mbCD is a friend of Melanie Testa, co-author of Playful Fabric Printing. Melly provided mbCD with a selection of hand printed fabrics to make a sample quilt top for Fall Quilt Market 2016, all other materials used to make the quilt are from mbCD's personal stash. This NOT a review of Playful Fabric Printing although this post does include a giveaway of the book provided by Crafting a Life, LLC.    In all other respects, this post is for informational purposes only, all opinions are mbCD's own and no payment or commission is received on click-throughs to links shared. 

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Uncredited reproduction of all content, text and images on this site is prohibited. All content, text and images must be credited to Chris Dodsley @made by ChrissieD and include a link back to this site.

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