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LOVED TO PIECES by MISTER DOMESTIC
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With the wind of his daughter Helena’s love at his back,
Matthew created Loved To Pieces.
Her love for flowers fused into a world where florals and EPP geometrics
fused into a world where florals and EPP geometrics play against an array of blue tones with touches of vibrant pinks and subtle greens.
Mathew Boudreaux of Mister Domestic learned to sew as a kid, but never really got into it until he had his daughter Helena, who is now four and a half. He thought it would be a great way to connect with her if he could make her cool clothes. With a new motivation to up his attention-to-detail, the quality and coolness far exceeded even his own expectations. Once he started posted his projects on social media, the quilting world quickly took notice of his fearless use of color and print, incomprehensibly fast output, carefree enthusiasm and humor, and ability to seek out, acquire and share new skills. Making projects from fabric weaving to English Paper Piecing to apparel to the 3-dimensional, you can find his fabric party on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. As a fabric designer, get ready to bring this party into overdrive as he translates his chic, edgy, and whimsical style into an in person experience for everyone to enjoy. When creating something visual, Mathew’s creative journey begins in his mind filled with countless ideas and life changing experiences. Those concepts are executed the moment ideas hit by creating two dimensional patterns. His concepts are further developed through the exploration of pictures he has captured and mood boards. The final idealization of a collection is then taken to illustrator. From this point on, Mathew uses an arsenal of skills that he’s gained from being immersed in the sewing industry to create relatable designs for sewists of all ages. He encourages makers to dive right into their ideas, avoid over thinking, and to focus on logistics once the work is executed to fulfill an exciting creative journey.
that isn’t necessarily what I gravitate to as a maker. So finding the balance of designing with that in mind and still creating something that I was obsessed with was a challenge at first. Once I overcome that challenge, that’s when the magic started to happen and the Loved to Pieces that we see now was born.
Mathew
BOUDREAUX
“...BUT IF THOSE WERE GIVEN TO ME LIKE “RSTLNE” IN WHEEL OF FORTUNE, THEN I’D WANT COFFEE, A QUILT, AND A SUITCASE WITH HELENA IN IT.” Hi Mathew! Congratulations on releasing your first AGF collection, “Loved To Pieces! What part of the design process did you enjoy the most? What was the most challenging? Thank you so much! I’m beyond stoked to have joined this amazing group of talent as a fabric designer with AGF. My favorite part of the process was working with “Pat Bravo” as the Creative Director. Neither one of us would settle for anything less than excellence and she knew how to both challenge and empower me to achieve it. I’ve always thought that I can achieve anything that I set my mind to, but I never had any idea that I could produce at the level that I did for my very first collection. With this as my benchmark, I can’t wait to see what comes out of me in the collections to come. The most challenging part at first was realizing that I wasn’t just designing for myself. Makers who have worked with AGF in the past are accustomed to a certain level of variety in each collection
2. We understand you drew a lot of inspiration from your daughter “Helena,” and your love for “English Paper Piecing.” Could you elaborate on how you fused these two together to create the main inspiration for this collection? Ever since Helena was born, I’ve involved her in my creative process from picking fabric and threads to use to helping me choose patterns to create and so on. Her intuitive choices have often been antithetical to my own, which has forced me to expand my creative arsenal to satisfy my own needs as a creative. Naturally, when it came time to design my first collection I asked her what she’d like to see and she immediately said flowers. I’m not really a floral kinda guy, but I was excited to create this world for her and to see what the “Mister Domestic” version of this would also look like. I had recently launched a “Flowermania English Paper Piecing” pattern, where I settled on a design for consumption in that world. But this didn’t stop my brain from churning out ideas, so I just went with it. As I was designing, I found myself trying to create a fantasy world for Helena to play in that was both timeless and ageless. Once the geometric world was created, I started thinking about other designs that would both make sense in that world and then could be used in all the variety of ways that a maker and sewist creates. 3. For your darling “Anthonem Serene” and “Anthonem Festive” prints, how did you narrow down these specific types of flowers to be incorporated into the fabric? The choices for this print were basically determined by what I could actually design with my current skill set. For each letter of the English Alphabet, I probably had three or four different flowers that I tried to design and picked the one in the end that I liked the best. Some letters had less choices than others, but I found this to be a really neat process because
not all amazing 3-dimensional flowers translated well into the 2-dimensional. I also wanted to have a variety of flower types like hanging vs tree vs bush vs solitary, so this also played a part in the final decisions. 4. Since we’re on the subject of flowers, have you or do you garden? I used to garden with my mom as a kid and I loved it. Helena has been wanting a garden for the past couple years and we promised her a raised bed one in the backyard, but it’s almost summer and that hasn’t happened yet, so we’ll see if that happens. It seems like something I’d totally love because I’m generally attracted to activities that force you into being present and, in this case, would literally force me to stop and smell the roses. 5. If you had to pick a favorite print from “Loved To Pieces,” which one would it be? “Mandalas Drops.” No doubt. I totally wanted to be diplomatic and say that “I love all my children equally,” but this print is super-duper personal to me as it was inspired by my sister “Tanisha” who passed away in 2008. On the day that she passed away, as I was headed back to Houston from Los Angeles, I had a layover in Phoenix and oddly decided to buy a bag of rocks from the gift store than I attributed to my sister and still cherish to this day. In looking for a design inspired by rocks, I stumbled upon the painted mandala rocks and ran with the idea. So from a personal perspective, nothing comes close to touching it. But also as a design, it can be used in so many ways and I would love to see it in all the colors, so my maker brain gravitates to it as well. 6. With all the buzz and excitement of a first collection release, what are some projects you’ve been wanting to create with your fabric? Since I first received my strikeoffs, I’ve been on a mad creative dash. I’ve made quilts, bags, boxes, clothes, and pillows using traditional methods, English paper piecing, and fabric weaving. When I had a call for makers for my “Spring Market Quilt Booth,” I had a doll, trucker hats, and a fanny pack, as well
as makes in the previously mentioned categories. So, I’m not gonna say that I’m done making stuff, but I’ve pretty much hit every category. The only technique that I still want to play with is “Foundation Paper Piecing,” so I’m doing a sew-along with “Whole Circle Studios” beginning on June 18th with a pattern that she designed inspired by this collection. 7. If you were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you? I’ve watched enough survival shows to know that I’d need a flint, a pot and knife. So those are my practical answers. But if those were given to me like “RSTLNE” in Wheel of Fortune, then I’d want coffee, a quilt, and a suitcase with Helena in it. 8. Do you have any “words of wisdom” for makers who are thinking of creating their first fabric collection? Well, it’s not easy to make happen and it takes a lot of hustle, but I also feel that we all have the power to make anything happen for ourselves that we want. So if you’re ready to work, then jump in deep end head first. It’s not an easy as doodling on your iPad Pro and putting it on repeat in Illustrator. You need to have an aesthetic that is unique to what it out there and is versatile enough that could attract a lot of people to it. Go to museums, flip through art books, get a pulse on fashion (both for style and color trends), and basically live life fully. The way we discover what we like is through experiences and the same rings true for developing an aesthetic. This journey will never end. Also, make sure that your social media is pretty and represents your aesthetic and naturally your following will grow. Then learn the software and your preferred medium to get your technique down. And once you have all of this established, design design design. I’ve also been fortunate to have mentors along my way so I’d reach out to designer you really dig and ask for guidance. And most importantly, know that you can do it.
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Stacking Pop Up Containers
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BLUE BINDED FUSED HUES
LPC-1420 ANTHONEM SERENE
L P
LPC-1424 LACED INFINITY
L T
LPC-2420 ANTHONEM FESTIVE
L P
LPC-2425 EFFLORESCENT FUCHSIA
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LPC-1421 PIECED BUNCHES COOL
LPC-1422 REAP AND SEW AZUL
LPC-1423 STRIPED FLOW MARINE
LPC-1426 TOPIARY FROST
LPC-1427 GLADIOLUMNS INBLUEM
LPC-1428 MANDALA DROPS MIDNIGHT
LPC-2421 PIECED BUNCHES WILD
LPC-2422 REAP AND SEW LIGHT
LPC-2423 STRIPED FLOW RAINBOW
LPC-2426 TOPIARY FERN
LPC-2427 GLADIOLUMNS PINKBLUEM
LPC-2428 MANDALA DROPS IRIS
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