Retro fabric design for this weeks Spoonflower contest & other fabric designs

It's been quite a while since I entered a Spoonflower fabric design contest. This weeks challenge was chairs & tables and in my back catalogue of designs I had a retro chair fabric which I always felt lacked a bit of oomph (see pic below) so I decided to rework it.

I immediately considered a new colour palette and also a few new design elements, colour is the quickest way to ring changes and by the time I had added some new drawings it started to take shape and turn into a more retro kitchen style fabric which I was pleased with.

The contest entry I've gone for is the bright yellow version although with hindsight I think the brown version is probably my favourite.

Also reworked this last week was another of my butterfly waltz fabric designs.

It's been a busy few days with Spoonflower stuff as I took delivery of some crepe de chine scarves I've had printed with an assortment of my designs. I'm in the process of preparing them, some are having hand rolled edges and others I'm backing with a contrasting fabric, also embellishing the blue flowery one with beads and sequins. Results later when I'm all done.

Best result in Spoonflower fabric of the week contest

Just before I went out last night the results came in for Spoonflower fabric of the week and I was over joyed to have my best result yet.
I came 4th in the kite contest with 394 votes so thank you to anyone who voted for me, I was just 56 votes away from the winning entry.


Spoonflower have printed the fabric and uploaded some pictures which I have below. The great news is, overnight a couple of people in the US have already bought some from the marketplace and I've just ordered a fat quarter as today is the last day to order 2 fat quarters for the price of one.

http://blog.spoonflower.com/2011/11/2-for-1-fat-quarter-sale-coming-november-28-december-2nd.html

Spoonflower contest - Kites

I have a new fabric design in this weeks Spoonflower contest, the subject was Kites so I made this collage effect design with coloured newsprint and machine stitched kite strings.

http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/109

Spoonflower contest - Hanging ornament

My latest fabric design will go live in the Spoonflower weekly contest tomorrow evening. The criteria this week was to design a cut and sew hanging ornament. I took that to being a festive ornament and I have reworked one of my Nutcracker Man drawings and turned him into a jolly little decoration.

I got rather carried away with colour combinations once I got going. The top picture, red and cyan version is the one I settled for entering.

Hopefully there will be time to order some of these for my craft fair to either sell as kits or ready made.

Spoonflower contest - Ditsy prints

The current Spoonflower contest is for a design featuring ditsy prints, doesn't necessarily have to be flowers but I've gone for a traditional floral scatter print of little embroidered flowers.

Bird fabric designs

This weeks Spoonflower contest is the very popular subject of birds. It has a restricted colour palate of 3 colours (black, white & pale green) plus one of your own choice.
I wanted to enter this contest with one of my little bird illustrations which I use on some of my own promotional things and greeting card designs.


I created quite a few variations. The bottom design is a more stylised, Scandinavian inspired design. I then moved back to my original idea of using my favourite bird illustration and couldn't decide whether to use the design with the hearts and the eggs, or the hearts and the flowers. After many colour combinations I settled on the top design.


Chances are very slim this week for even coming in the top 100 as there are 342 entries, which be warned if you go looking, take ages to click through. There are some really lovely designs in the collection.

My best ever Spoonflower contest result!

I've been excited all day because this evening was the result of the Spoonflower contest and when I got up this morning I received an email from Spoonflower saying congratulations I had come in the top 10 for this weeks contest.


I still had to wait until this evening to find out where in the top 10 and I'm so happy to have come 4th, only about 30 votes separated 2nd place to 4th place and the winner was a clear winner with twice as many votes. 


Lovely winning fabric. I'm so pleased to make it in the top 10, a first for me.

http://bit.ly/o0xjhY

Not been a bad day because went to see one of my old customers in Bridlington who wanted to talk to me about their new business venture (hush hush at the mo), but lets just say it involves veggie food, good coffee & creative things... I think that about sums up all the things I like too!


And, lovely people that they are, I left with arms full of stuff, baking, local apple juice and cook books.


Really looking forward to designing their new branding.