Little Quilts has been out there in the world for a few weeks now, and thank you to everyone for all the love it has been receiving!We thought it was time we threw it a little launch party, so here it goes. (Thanks Amy I have shamelessly pinched your extremely cute pic.) Owing to the fact that...

At Quilt Market in Spring of this year I was wandering the aisles as you do - looking for things that jump out and things that catch your eye! At the end of a row I came upon the most gorgeous and huge embroidered skunk that just stopped me in my tracks! It was of course the Skunk Floor Pillow f...

All Things Artful Giveaway! Leave a Comment! The art bug bit us last week - must have been too much warm winter weather - anyway we painted, spritzed, stamped, stenciled, and did just about any and every art technique you can think of. Happiness is when you can't see the top of your table ...

Just this morning, I was making out a list of gifts I wanted to give to friends and realized that I'll need to get cracking at this point if I hope to hand-make presents. If you find that you've been similarly sluggish about your hand-making thus far and need some ideas, you may be pleased t...

Here in NC, things are starting to look and feel downright cozy lately. The leaves are turning colors, temperatures are dropping to extra-blanket-at-night levels, and curling up on the sofa with a quilt to hand-stitch is becoming my preferred activity after the kids have gone to bed. With t...

The Spoonflower blog has been graced lately by virtual visits from some extremely talented guest posters. Among them, and up this week, is Dana Willard of the Made blog and author of Fabrics A to Z (called The Fabric Selector if you're UK-based). Dana has kindly offered to share her experie...

There seem to be so many ways now to learn how to make stuff--"real life" crafting and sewing classes at local and chain shops, YouTube videos you can go to for a quick visual primer on specific techniques, sewalongs hosted on blogs, and now a more recent development that we're watching with ...

Some of us in the Spoonflower office are very into pretty dresses--especially the vintage kind--so when we realized this morning that Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing, the much anticipated title from talented sewist Gretchen Hirsch and author of Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing, had fina...

The kids are back in school this week and while I haven't been counting down the hours 'til the kids go back to school, I have to admit that I have a lot more time to think all of a sudden. And when I have time to think, I often think about projects I'd like to make for myself that maybe I p...

With my kids about to return to school, this week has been a little nutty. We're attempting to cross a few remaining fun items off our summer to-do list but also going to dentist appointments, shopping for school supplies, pulling bigger clothes down from the attic for growing girls, and jus...

We're absolutely thrilled to have collaborated this week with fellow North Carolina resident, pattern designer, blogger, and author Meg McElwee to bring you a great giveaway. For those of you who aren't familiar with this talented sewist, Meg has written two very popular sewing books, Sew Libe...

This week's giveaway is for another beautiful sewing title from Chronicle Books. Tessa Everlegh's Sewing Made Simple is one of those books we'd really like to hold onto ourselves at the Spoonflower office. It's geared towards the sewing beginner and, while some of us are past needing a sewin...

As an unapologetic lover of pretty dresses, I was really intrigued to have a copy of Famous Frocks land on my desk recently, courtesy of the kind folks at Chronicle Books. In this book, authors Sara Alm and Hannah McDevitt have curated a collection of 20 dresses ranging from the 1930's (Bette...

Happy Fourth of July to all our American peeps! This week's giveaway is being brought to you from the beautiful Smoky Mountains in Tennesse where Stephen and I are visiting family this week. Despite record-breaking hot temperatures (and no air-conditioning!) we've been keeping cool in an ic...

Gingher 7-1/2-Inch Pinking Shears, 8-Inch Knife Edge Dressmaker's Shears & 4-Inch Featherweight Thread Clippers We're big fans of quality sewing tools around here. There's nothing more ruinous to the happy experience of creating something you're excited about than working with shoddy tools --...

Browsing all the amazing hand-drawn fabric designs for this week's contest--not to mention the pen, ink, and watercolor renderings for the Fabric8 contest--has gotten us pretty excited lately about designs created by hand. To my eye, there's something so organic, approachable, and just plain h...

Coincidental to our upcoming fabric-of-the week contest theme of hat patterns, we were recently sent a copy of Hat Shop, a new book all about hats to sew compiled by Susanne Woods. To me, this is project sewing serendipity because the onset of spring always sends me on a hat hunt. After a lon...

Back when I was learning how to bake in a professional kitchen, I had a chef say to me, "A good chef never blames the equipment for her mistakes." I agree with her that solid skills can usually overcome any deficiency in the equipment you might have to work with but on the other hand, don't h...

I've been a big fan of Rashida Coleman-Hale for quite awhile. Writer of the iheartlinen blog, Rashida has a clean aesthetic and a clever project sensibility that I just love. Rashida recently released her Washi fabric collection through Timeless Treasures, and sells other charming fabrics thr...

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing licensed fabric designer, Laurie Wisbrun. Laurie has been with Spoonflower since practically our very beginning, and we've been thrilled bystanders as she has evolved from life on the "corporate hamster wheel" to success as a popular fabric designer. ...

My New Year's resolution for two years running has been to upgrade my garment-sewing skills. In poking around online for relevant tutorials, I discovered that Liesl Gibson, founder and chief designer of Oliver + S and designer of Simplicity's new Lisette line of adult clothing patterns, has pu...

Day nine in our holiday giveaway series bring us to one of my favorite new sewing books, The Colette Sewing Handbook by Sarai Mitnick, owner and designer of Colette Patterns. This beautifully crafted handbook features vintage-inspired patterns with simple and elegant details. Each of the ...

Day Five of our 12 Days of Giveaways brings us to one of our favorite crafting books by one of our favorite crafty people, Diane Gilleland of CraftyPod. We're giving away a copy of Sister Diane's book Kanzashi in Bloom: 20 Simple Fold-and-Sew Projects to Wear and Give, as well as a fat quart...