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
My Early Experiments with On-Demand Fabric Printing
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Painted Daisies, Take 1
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
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Painted Daisies, Take 2
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
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Variations on a Fabric
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
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Pointy Pink Plaid and Illustrator CS6′s New Pattern Function
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
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Watercolor Coneflowers
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
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Turtle Tee
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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