Melanie Testa

Melanie Testa learned to love fabric and sewing at a young age

while sitting at her grandma’s trusty Singer, and has been

reimagining her everyday experiences through artful construction

ever since. Whether printing cloth, making quilts or journaling,

Melanie’s work enchants with its primitivism and captivates in its

exactitude. Birds come to life amid polka dots, roses and poppies,

expressing a passion for color, pattern and design that shines with

a depth and sensitivity to her subject matter.

Melanie Testa is an accomplished textile and quilt artist. She holds

a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Textile/

Surface Design and exhibits her fiber art at various galleries and

quilt shows around the country. Her most recent book offering,

Playful Fabric Printing is coauthored with Carol Soderlund by Crafting a Life, LLC.

In addition to this, Melanie has written Dreaming from the Journal Page,

Transforming the Sketchbook to Art by North Light Press and Inspired To Quilt, Creative Experiments in Art Quilt Imagery by Interweave Press and also authored a Quilting

Arts DVD Workshop called Print, Collage, Quilt.