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What a great give-away! (meredithjean)
Fabrics A to Z book giveaway, from Dana Willard
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...
Brilliant give-away! meredithjean
Handmade to Sell book giveaway
This week, we're giving away a great new book about owning and running your own craft-related business, Hello Craft's Handmade to Sell by Kelly Rand, with contributions from craft-world rock stars Christine Ernest, Sara Dick, and Kimberly Dorn. For those of you who don't know, Hello Craft is...
I would be reading it from cover to cover, exactly what my photography needs! (meredithjean)
Crafty Photography Book Giveaway and Drawing Set Giveaway Winner
Photography has never been my strong suit so I'm often stopped in my tracks whenever I'm cruising around Etsy. How did all these people who are clearly so talented at making stuff--purses, knitted shrugs, pendant necklaces, paintings, or what have you--also get blessed with crazy photography sk...
Yay Spoonflower curations - good one! (meredithjean)
A garden of fabrics
At Spoonflower, we have the fabric equivalent of all the gardening catalogs I've been receiving in the mail lately. Roses. From top left corner, Retro Roses by Cynthia Frenette, Roses Beige Background by Art Is Us, BlackFlowersPanel by Danielle Hanson, Joan's Dusty Roses and Snow Roses by TwoBl...
This book covers the most exciting topic, I NEEEEED this kind of help. meredithjean
Tidy '12
Does anyone else besides me enjoy taking the holiday decorations down almost as much as putting them up? It's probably pretty grinchy of me to admit, but I've always enjoyed a good de-cluttering session, and the post-holiday one is the grandaddy of them all. After hauling the tree to the curb...
Yes WOW! What a super giveaway! (meredithjean)
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Eight: Win Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders book + 5 yards of custom fabric
It's Day Eight in our twelve days of holiday giveaways, and today we're gifting a copy of the brand new Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders sewing project book. Filled with 101 projects you can make with just one yard of fabric, you'll find patterns for all of the fabrics in your stash: quilt...
It's SO exciting being part of these 12 days of giveaways! (meredithjean)
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Six: Win a set of Spoonflower Color Maps & Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Welcome to Day Six of the 12 Days of Giveaways in which we eschew geese-a-laying in favor of something much more practical: color maps. We're offering a full set of Spoonflower color maps, one on each of the different types of fabric we offer. A color map is an essential tool for using a d...
What a fabulous giveaway! (meredithjean)
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Five: Win Kanzashi book & fat quarter bundle selected by Sister Diane
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...
SO gorgeous!!! LOVE!
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Five: Win Kanzashi book & fat quarter bundle selected by Sister Diane
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...
Oh YES wonderful!!!!
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways: Day Three -- Win a surprise holiday fabric bundle from our favorite designers
To celebrate Day Three in our twelve days of holiday giveaways, we're giving three lucky fabric lovers surprise fat quarter bundles in holiday-inspired fabrics designed by some terrific Spoonflower designers. Printed on our limited edition cotton poplin fabric, these mixed bundles feature de...
So cool!
Border Print Tutorial: True Up's Kim Kight launches her book blog tour at Spoonflower!
We at Spoonflower are beyond thrilled to have one of our favorite "fabric obsessed" bloggers, Kim Kight, making a first stop on her book blog tour here today. In case you're not a regular reader of Kim's wonderful blog True Up--and you should be!--she has a fantastic new book out, A Field Guide...
SO exciting - LOVE SammyK xxx
An Interview with Samarra Khaja, Spoonflower designer gone pro with Timeless Treasures
Those of you who have followed the Spoonflower fabric-of-the-week contests for even a few months probably don't need an introduction to prolific designer Samarra Khaja, aka Sammyk. Samarra has a light-hearted design style coupled with a great sense of both humor and color, and she's won ou...
In Australia in the 60s we called them 'granny prints' and they had to be floral. It seems ditsy is slightly more widely defined. I think it's great that Stephen has written to all of us about the volume instigated need to reduce the number of competitors to make the voting round this week. Look forward to voting tomorrow!
Ditsy definition
There's been some discussion in a Flickr forum about our upcoming "ditsy print" contest theme and what exactly ditsy means, so I'm going to attempt to clarify what we had in mind. A ditsy print is quite small in scale, and the design motifs are usually scattered or random rather than being or...
Congratulations Patty! You're my favourite, I voted for you. Yes have fun you clever girl.
A Fabric Star Is Born: Announcing the Project Selvage Winner
We're very excited to congratulate Patty Sloniger of Houston, Texas, winner of the Project Selvage competition. After many thousands of votes and weeks of hard work (by voters and designers), Spoonflower's fabric-loving community has selected Patty's Backyard Baby collection as the one they ...
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