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Tutorial: How to Create a Fabric Design Collection From a Paper Collage
This week, Spoonflower designer and paper collage artist, Sally Harmon (aka, Boris_Thumbkin), shares a tutorial on how to create a collection of fabric designs out of a single large paper collage. We're in awe of Sally's low-tech, approachable design technique which uses only scissors, paper, a ...
oh, yes, I could use that. :)
(laurawilson)
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Twelve: Two $100 credits for creating custom fabric
We made it! Today brings us to the twelfth and final installment of our 12 Days of Giveaways. Whew. Our last prize will consist of two $100 Spoondollar credits, to be awarded tomorrow morning to two fine folks. The winners will be able to use the credit to create their own fabric or to shop...
beautiful book!
(laurawilson)
Spoonflower's' 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Nine: Colette Sewing Handbook + 3 yards cotton silk
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 ...
5 yards! I've been working on a cheater print for my kids beds - so I could certainly use 5 yards. :)
Lovely book, too!
(laurawilson)
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...
lovely collections!
(laurawilson)
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways, Day Seven: Fabric Collections from Much-Loved Spoonflower Designers
We've reached the seventh installment of our twelve days of holiday giveaways, and today we offer three winners fat quarter bundles by three beloved Spoonflower designers. One winner plucks a bunch of fabrics from Bloem by Heather Dutton of Hang Tight Studio. In citrusy greens, calm blues a...
I'm loving all the giveaways! Great fabric choices! (laurawilson)
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...
Lovely fabric!
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...
12 days of giveaways, wow! Merry Christmas!
Spoonflower's 12 Days of Giveaways
While the merry Spoonflower crew is busy printing the fabrics you need to make your gifts, we're kicking off twelve days of giveaways to give you the chance to win gifts of your own this holiday season! Check back every day through December 12th to win beautiful fabrics designed by the Spoonf...
Wow, that is some book! I can't wait to get a copy of it, so I can figure out how to do all the stuff in my head!
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...
Oh! This is one of my favorite kinds of prints, but I never knew it was called that. I usually call it calico, but that's probably not right. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
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...
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