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These are just beautiful! I really hope someone uses them for their special day!
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...
So exciting! Awesome pics!
Berlin Update: Seeing Progress in the new Office
Time for a Spoonflower status update: Berlin edition! If you've been curious about how things are going at the new Berlin office and want to stay in the know, read on as Spoonflower crew member Allie shares an update on the new space. Meet some new German team members, and behold the early stage...
Awesome! Just love this. And big thanks from Jasmine for her pink penguin shout out!
Happy holidays to Spoonflower!! xoxox
Give the Gift of Giving
It's said that experiences make us happier than things do. Traditionally, this is the time of year when many of us search for that perfect something, often getting stressed out and unhappy in the process as we rush to the finish line and around the mall. Why not try something a little different ...
thank you Spoonflower! thank you Milk & Honey! :D :D :D xxx
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...
My fox and elephant thank you very much for their shout out! What a great collection of super gift ideas :) xxx
Spoonflower Hacks: Cut & Sew Patterns
Enjoy a little DIY inspiration from the Spoonflower community with one of the ultimate Spoonflower Hacks, cut & sew patterns, engineered sewing patterns printed right on the fabric! 1. DIY goodie bag | 2. Michigan oven mitt kit | 3. Fox + elephant pillow panels 4. Retrotastic camera bag p...
oh what a handsome chappie :) The jacket looks amazing! Thanks so much for including my little frogs :D Incredible tailoring too. Awesome!
Friday Photo: Stephen's Custom Jacket!
Check out Stephen's rad custom printed blazer he wore this week at FESPA in London! Our friends over at Lumina, a local Raleigh, North Carolina men's apparel company, constructed the jacket with our linen-cotton canvas and cotton silk. Spoonflower's resident graphic designer, Caroline Okun, des...
great post! LOVE the design... and that bbq pic is hilarious!! xxx
Dads & Dudes: Patent Drawings Gift Wrap
Spoonflower crew member Caroline used her grandfather's patent applications to create personalized gift wrap for Father's Day. Check out the how-to for this unique project perfect for any occasion using your own keepsakes or memorabilia! When I was younger, my dad used to tell me that my gr...
oooo fun fun fun! great stuff!! :D xxx
2013 Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge Pt. 5: Scented Flight of the Bumblebee Quilt
This is the fifth post in our series of staff projects created for the Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge. Voting on this contest opens Thursday, 3/14. From the beginning, our team set out to do the seemingly impossible: find a way to make a quilt cozier than it already is. We knew we...
heehee. Unicorns, waterfalls and gin... You guys do a fabulous job! xxx
Friday Photo: Zen Fountain of Customer Service
In this week's Friday Photo, David and Beth allow the soothing sound of the customer service wall fountain to assist them in finding their Zen as they help some of Spoonflower's many terrific (but occasionally stressed out) customers. In the foreground stands the original prototype for Corneliu...
awesome!!!! thanks spoonflower!!!
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...
my daughter would loooooove this! she made an awesome dragon from spoonflower color charts. This would keep her busy for weeks!!!scrummy xxx
We Make Dolls book and fabric giveaway
Things are really hopping in the Spoonflower shop these days! The printing and shipping crews are working almost non-stop to get orders out the door before our shipping deadlines. Then it's home to work on hand-made gifts with the whirr of sewing machines and the click of knitting needles re...
*sob*
Win A Quilter's Dream Vacation
Today we are very excited to announce our Win A Trip To QuiltCon Sweepstakes! We'd love to send you and a quilt-loving friend on an all-expense paid trip to the first annual QuiltCon, being held by the Modern Quilt Guild, in Austin, Texas, February 21-24, 2014. The grand prize winner from ou...
yes please!!!!! :D xxx (scrummy)
Spoonflower Wall Decal Giveaway
We're pretty thrilled to have rolled out our new wallpaper and wall decals this week and given that this giant step for Spoonflower happened only yesterday, it seems appropriate for this week's giveaway should be wall decals! If you'd like to be entered into the drawing for this week's prize ...
WONDERFUL! WTG VO!!! :D xxx
Virginia Odien big fabric bundle giveaway
This week, we're really pleased to be bringing you a virtual chat with Spoonflower designer, Virginia Odien, also known as Vo_aka_VirginiaO. Viginia's been with Spoonflower since almost the very beginning, has nearly 200 designs available in her Spoonflower shop on which to feast your eyes, an...
oooo yes please!!!!! fab giveaway! xxx
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...
I echo Kelly's 'huh?'
Every one of those top 10 are gorgeous and are well deserved winners!
Spoonflowers 'inclusive to everybody' contest policy is totally the right thing to do. It makes all us lesser designers work our socks off to get better! I thought this contest was amazing ~ I loved seeing how everyone used those colours in such beautiful and different ways.
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 kill my rubbish scissors ~ would loooooove some cool awesome ones so much.... I adore the 'shhhwhoooship' of really good scissors....xxx
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 --...
oh WOW! ... and Drea's hat is so so cool! LOVE this :D xxx
Hat Shop book giveaway and Crafty Chloe giveaway winner
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...
oh a big scrummy ~ me me me me me!!!!
Heather Ross giveaway and Merchant & Mills giveaway winner
Heather Ross plus a little girl-friendly craft project? Yes, please! This week's giveaway is for a copy of Crafty Chloe, a new children's book with a clever and crafty young heroine written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by popular fabric designer Heather Ross. We'll also throw in two y...
hey hey what about me and my 9 missing urban buddies??
Announcing the top 10 fabrics from the Urban Sightings Contest
The top ten fabrics from this week's contest are headed for an exhibit at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where jurors will select their favorite for a grand prize. The people's choice in our voting was Canadian designer Cynthia Frenette's "Take the Detour Route," but all of the top ten off...
wanty wanty mucho!!! xxx
Rashida Coleman-Hale giveaway and Pattern books winner
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...
this is absolutely stunning. I love it so much. wowsers. LOVE!
Spoonflower Staff Challenge Pt 15: Light the World on (Spoon)Flower
This is the last in a series of posts describing the projects that are part of our 2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge. Voting begins tomorrow! Tim and I (Darci) dove into this project like crazy people. We definitely bit off more than we could chew, so it's fitting that for our Spoonflower Sta...
oh my god. You guys.... yey. Fun contest!
2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge Pt 12: Building A Spoonflower Streamliner
This is the twelfth in a series of posts describing the projects that are part of our 2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge. Voting begins on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Gart: Stephen had mentioned the idea of a project-based staff contest working in teams. Hmmm, I thought, how do I convince m...
beyond awesome.
2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge Pt 10: Making A Sofa Using Recycled Cardboard Tubes
This is the tenth in a series of posts describing the projects that are part of our 2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge. Voting begins on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Chad’s Intro: This year’s staff contest has to be the most ambitious month-long project I’ve undertaken since graduating from c...
super cute! love it :)
2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge Pt. 6: Making a Teepee
This is the sixth in a series of posts describing the projects that are part of our 2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge. Voting begins on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Kelly’s Introduction: When I (Kelly) first heard about the details of the staff contest I immediately thought teepee. I had been wa...
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