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Thanks Vincent, Amy, Rosanna, Sharon and Shelly! I'd love to hear your tips too because you're all accomplished designers yourselves! It's so great to hear what others keep in mind while designing! xoxoxo.
Commented Mar 20, 2016 on The Do's and Don'ts of Fabric Design at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
The Do's and Don'ts of Fabric Design
For the most part, there are no rules when it comes to creating a surface design. All mediums are welcome, all shapes, sizes and colors can make for an interesting repeat. However, that's not to say there aren't still a few mistakes you want to avoid. Nine-time Spoonflower Design Challenge winn...
Thanks Sharon Turner!
I hope lots of people show me what they create out of these designs!
Commented Mar 1, 2016 on Digital Download Day: Garden Wedding at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Digital Download Day: Garden Wedding
Today's free digital surface deigns are brought to you by nine-time Spoonflower Design Challenge winner Virginia O. Her garden-inspired florals are calming and reminiscent of a serene Monet painting. How does it work? Just click on the hyperlinked text below to download the high-res version o...
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Commented Dec 31, 2015 on 2015 Year in Review at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
2015 Year in Review
It's been quite a year and we can't believe 2015 is already drawing to a close! Our community has accomplished so much together in these last 12 months, from contest wins to the launching of Sprout Patterns, to the opening of hundreds of shops with promising new designers to explore. Take a walk...
A quick clarification: I've won the Connecting Threads contest twice but neither of those contests were in any way connected to Spoonflower. Connecting Threads and Spoonflower have never been co-sponsors of a contest. SF was nice enough to work with CT the first time I won their contest by offering a bundle of fabrics to a lucky winner that included fabrics from my first collection at CT and hand-picked designs of mine at SF.
My first design win at CT is no longer under license at CT and can be found here at SF: http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/699357 My second win at CT was a design I won first place here at SF and then went on to win at CT. It is not available for sale as fabric at SF (but is available as wallpaper and gift wrap). You can find the wallpaper/giftwrap here: http://www.spoonflower.com/giftwrap/2268909 and the fabric collection here at CT: http://www.connectingthreads.com/cfFabric/collection_list.cfm?id=129&media=BE101115&elink=1--Daylight-Palette&utm_source=media&utm_medium=bem&utm_campaign=BE101115&utm_content=1--Daylight-Palette
Thank you so much Abby and Spoonflower!
Commented Jun 3, 2015 on Success with Spoonflower: Winning With Contests at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Success with Spoonflower: Winning With Contests
Spoonflower can be a great tool and platform for growing your creative business. Designer and writer Abby Glassenberg has created a series of three posts exploring how designers can build community, leverage contest wins, and maximize sales in the Spoonflower Marketplace. In this last installmen...
Fantastic inspiration! :-D
Commented Dec 1, 2014 on 10 Places to Find Inspiration at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
10 Places to Find Inspiration
Today kicks off the first our 12 Days of Design!! Have you signed up to get daily emails outlining the steps to create your first, or newest, textile design? Sometimes the hardest part of fabric design is just getting started. It's common to feel completely uninspired, but luckily there are a...
Love the video, love the photos. Have to say all the fun media y'all put out really helps those of us who are on the site daily feel like we're part of the team. Nicely done video and photography team!
Commented Mar 11, 2014 on Behind The Scenes: Spoonflower Staff Challenge 2014 at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Behind The Scenes: Spoonflower Staff Challenge 2014
**Voting for the Staff Challenge starts this Thursday, March 13th!** It is a Spoonflower employee's most eagerly awaited time of year -- the Staff Challenge! Yes, it's the time of year when the tables turn and Spoonies create their own surface designs for the world to judge. Take a peek at what ...
Best post ever! Look at all of those lovely shoes! Wheeeee!
Commented Jan 8, 2014 on Milk and Honey x Spoonflower Tastemaker Collection at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Milk and Honey x Spoonflower Tastemaker Collection
Last August we teamed up with Milk and Honey Shoes to find the perfect fabric for a pair of shoes by asking designers to create small-scale geometric prints. Today we are thrilled to announce the release of our Tastemaker Collection! Birdland Geometric by Virginia Odien Modern Glass Slippe...
hooray! Thanks SF!
Commented Sep 12, 2013 on Search Just Got Better at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Search Just Got Better
We are happy to announce improvements to the Spoonflower search engine! These enhancements will improve the accuracy and relevancy of search results for our shoppers and aid designers in marketing their designs. How has search gotten better? A search for “puppy” will also return results for “p...
Love, love, love. Big LOVE.
Commented Jul 25, 2013 on New Voting Design at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
New Voting Design
If you've voted in our recent contest you've noticed that we redesigned the voting page! I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few features of the new layout, and explain why we're so excited about the change: 1. Do you vote from your phone? The contest page was built with responsive design, ...
Love, love, love this idea!
Commented May 31, 2013 on Renter Dec: DIY Subway Wall Art at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Renter Dec: DIY Subway Wall Art
We wanted to share one final renter-friendly project from our month-long Renter Dec series devoted to simple and fully removable projects. Fantastic artist Samarra Khaja (SammyK on Spoonflower) created amazing wall art for her kids using decals she designed based on the NYC MTA subway system. C...
I heart this
Commented Mar 11, 2013 on 2013 Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge Pt. 9: A Ryan Gosling Quilt at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
2013 Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge Pt. 9: A Ryan Gosling Quilt
This post is the ninth in our series of projects created by Spoonflower employees for the 2013 Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge. Voting for this contest opens on Thursday, 3/14. The 2013 Staff Challenge has been challenging indeed. Charged with the task of designing a quilt--any siz...
Heather, really cute tutorial!
Commented Jan 30, 2013 on January Refresh: Heather Dutton's Magnet Board Makeover at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
January Refresh: Heather Dutton's Magnet Board Makeover
This week, Spoonflower designer Heather Dutton of Hang Tight Studio shares an easy but impactful magnet board makeover using Spoonflower decals. Read on for the details of Heather's project, including some extra ideas for using up leftover decal bits at the end of the post! When the Ne...
Ohhhh wheeeee!
Commented Dec 6, 2012 on Coming Soon...the 12 Days of Giveaways! at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Coming Soon...the 12 Days of Giveaways!
Regular visitors to the Spoonflower blog know that we usually hold a giveaway on Wednesdays. Not this week, though--instead we're ramping up for our second annual 12 Days of Holiday Giveaways! Beginning this Friday morning, we'll be offering each and every one of you a shot at twelve fabulou...
Oh, mucho love for this one. Danielle did a great job on the design and Chad's uncle a superby job on the upholstery!
Commented Nov 5, 2012 on Friday photo at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Friday photo
Danielle relaxing on a sofa reupholstered in her own Queeny Brass design. We've still got decorating on the brain here at the new Spoonflower office, and just accepted delivery of some beautifully reupholstered furniture all done up in Spoonflower fabrics, of course, by Chad's very skilled unc...
I NEED this book! vo aka virginiao
Commented Oct 18, 2012 on Fabrics A to Z book giveaway, from Dana Willard at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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...
Yes! vo aka virginiao
Commented Sep 20, 2012 on Handmade to Sell book giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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...
Love this tutorial and the happy, content face of your daughter.
Commented Sep 3, 2012 on Tutorial: Kindergarten Nap Mat and Pillow at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Tutorial: Kindergarten Nap Mat and Pillow
When our middle daughter was getting ready to start kindergarten two years ago, we received a note from the school about the supplies she would need. Among them was a beach towel for her daily nap time. "A beach towel?!" I thought incredulously. Lying on a towel on a classroom floor certainly...
Oh, love the Minoru Jacket! vo aka virginiao
Commented Aug 30, 2012 on Sewaholic pattern and fabric giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Sewaholic pattern and fabric giveaway
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...
All of the patterns are great, would love to win this! vo1234 aka virginiao
Commented Aug 9, 2012 on Meg McElwee Ashland pattern giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Meg McElwee Ashland pattern giveaway
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...
Yes please! vo1234 aka virginia o
Commented Aug 3, 2012 on Blogging for Creatives book giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Blogging for Creatives book giveaway
We often give away sewing related items for the Spoonflower weekly giveaway, and we sometimes give away design related items. Then occasionally, we give away stuff that is tangential to both sewing and fabric design but, we hope, still of interest to you all. This week's book jumped out at me ...
Love this tutorial, love the fabric choice.
Commented Jul 12, 2012 on Tutorial: Sewing Up A Summer Waterproof Washbag at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Tutorial: Sewing Up A Summer Waterproof Washbag
This week guest author Emma Jeffery from the blog Hello Beautiful shares a tutorial for sewing up a waterproof washbag. A washbag is a useful accessory to have at any time of year, but they’re particularly useful to have around when packing for summer vacations or trips. This oversize bag is...
Yep, totally need these! And btw, thanks for all the giveaways! virginiao aka vo
Commented Jul 5, 2012 on Quilting Notions Set Giveaway and Happy Home book winner at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Quilting Notions Set Giveaway and Happy Home book winner
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...
You know how you can win a design contest? Design a stellar design. Believe me all the designers that have won before have far more losing entries than winning design entries. Popular designers are popular because they have excellent skills and design great fabrics. The rest of us get better because we recognize that to become popular we'd better have good designs.
More than 1/2 of the current Top 10 have never had a design in the Top 10 that I can remember...how did they get into the Top 10 unless they had a stellar design? btw, congrats to all the Top 10 for having fabulous designs!
Commented Jun 22, 2012 on Let's Hear It for Sticks & Spots, Stripes & Dots! at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Let's Hear It for Sticks & Spots, Stripes & Dots!
The winner of our palette-restricted contest for geometric shape fabrics is none other than veteran Spoonflowerer SammyK, whose history of previous contest wins is almost too long to list (but you can review many of them on the contest archive page). Suffice it to say she's done it again in a ...
Oh, I want to win this. virginiao aka vo
Commented Jun 22, 2012 on Fabric8 Collection Giveaway winner and a giveaway of things you shouldn't run with at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Fabric8 Collection Giveaway winner and a giveaway of things you shouldn't run with
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 --...
I love using pencil/watercolor. I need this set! vo aka virginiao
Commented May 24, 2012 on Drawing Set giveaway and Handmade Weddings book winner at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Drawing Set giveaway and Handmade Weddings book winner
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...
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