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My Early Experiments with On-Demand Fabric Printing

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I started making my own fabric designs in 2009, partly because I discovered a company (Spoonflower) that would take your digital image and print it on fabric.  Prior to that time, I’d done some printing on fabric using my own … Continue reading

Painted Daisies, Take 1

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Another week, another fabric design challenge…  Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics are sponsoring the Fabric8 contest.  The challenge is to create a modern fabric design that evokes the style of pen & ink drawings colored with watercolor paints.  This isn’t … Continue reading

Painted Daisies, Take 2

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I played around some more with my Painted Daisies design, done for the Fabric8 Contest at Spoonflower.  Here was the previous version. While I like the colors, the design seems boring.  I decided to try adding lots more layers of … Continue reading

Variations on a Fabric

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A while ago, Spoonflower had a contest to create a Hawaiian ‘cheater’ quilt design, and I wrote about my design here and about the wall quilt I made from the fabric here. Here’s the original design, using the turtles and … Continue reading

Pointy Pink Plaid and Illustrator CS6′s New Pattern Function

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I’ve been learning to use Adobe Illustrator to create repeating designs for fabric (here’s an example, and another one).  There’s a new version of Illustrator (CS6) which has a new feature allowing you to easily create repeat patterns.  I’ve been … Continue reading

Watercolor Coneflowers

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Watercolor Coneflowers is my quilt for the Fall 2012 Blogger’s Quilt Festival.  It’s a small art quilt that I’ve been working on to donate to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (which has already raised over $773,000 to raise awareness of … Continue reading

Turtle Tee

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Another week, another Spoonflower design contest.  This one is in partnership with the publishers of the series of books called One-Yard Wonders — sewing books with projects you can make with one yard of fabric.  They’re putting together a new book … Continue reading




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