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Awesome! Great post Virginia ~ loved reading your inspiring tips!
Commented Mar 18, 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 ever so Tina :)
Commented Mar 10, 2016 on Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk
We're 10 days into the #SFDesignADay SpoonChallenge! Today's design prompt is brought to you by Sharon Turner (aka Scrummy), an avid Spoonflower Marketplace contributor with a knack for Steampunk designs. Sharon: I think of steampunk as a mash up of mechanical Victorian fantasy and grung...
thanks Ceri!
Commented Mar 10, 2016 on Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk
We're 10 days into the #SFDesignADay SpoonChallenge! Today's design prompt is brought to you by Sharon Turner (aka Scrummy), an avid Spoonflower Marketplace contributor with a knack for Steampunk designs. Sharon: I think of steampunk as a mash up of mechanical Victorian fantasy and grung...
thanks Amy! Have fun!
Commented Mar 10, 2016 on Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk
We're 10 days into the #SFDesignADay SpoonChallenge! Today's design prompt is brought to you by Sharon Turner (aka Scrummy), an avid Spoonflower Marketplace contributor with a knack for Steampunk designs. Sharon: I think of steampunk as a mash up of mechanical Victorian fantasy and grung...
thanks Virginia!
Commented Mar 10, 2016 on Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
Design-A-Day SpoonChallenge Day 10: Steampunk
We're 10 days into the #SFDesignADay SpoonChallenge! Today's design prompt is brought to you by Sharon Turner (aka Scrummy), an avid Spoonflower Marketplace contributor with a knack for Steampunk designs. Sharon: I think of steampunk as a mash up of mechanical Victorian fantasy and grung...
These are just beautiful! I really hope someone uses them for their special day!
Commented Feb 29, 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...
So exciting! Awesome pics!
Commented Feb 15, 2016 on Berlin Update: Seeing Progress in the new Office at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
Commented Dec 19, 2014 on Give the Gift of Giving at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
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...
My fox and elephant thank you very much for their shout out! What a great collection of super gift ideas :) xxx
Commented Jul 31, 2013 on Spoonflower Hacks: Cut & Sew Patterns at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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!
Commented Jun 28, 2013 on Friday Photo: Stephen's Custom Jacket! at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
Commented Jun 18, 2013 on Dads & Dudes: Patent Drawings Gift Wrap at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
Commented Mar 10, 2013 on 2013 Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge Pt. 5: Scented Flight of the Bumblebee Quilt at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
Commented Dec 9, 2012 on Friday Photo: Zen Fountain of Customer Service at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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!!!
Commented Dec 5, 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...
my daughter would loooooove this! she made an awesome dragon from spoonflower color charts. This would keep her busy for weeks!!!scrummy xxx
Commented Dec 1, 2012 on We Make Dolls book and fabric giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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*
Commented Oct 9, 2012 on Win A Quilter's Dream Vacation at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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)
Commented Sep 26, 2012 on Spoonflower Wall Decal Giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Virginia Odien big fabric bundle giveaway at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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
Commented Jul 4, 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...
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.
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 kill my rubbish scissors ~ would loooooove some cool awesome ones so much.... I adore the 'shhhwhoooship' of really good scissors....xxx
Commented Jun 21, 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 --...
oh WOW! ... and Drea's hat is so so cool! LOVE this :D xxx
Commented Apr 21, 2012 on Hat Shop book giveaway and Crafty Chloe giveaway winner at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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!!!!
Commented Apr 11, 2012 on Heather Ross giveaway and Merchant & Mills giveaway winner at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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??
Commented Mar 29, 2012 on Announcing the top 10 fabrics from the Urban Sightings Contest at Spoonflower Blog – Design & Sell your own Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap
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...
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