Spoonflower Shop Update

Last spring I posted about dipping my toes into fabric design on Spoonflower. I have a couple new designs in my shop to share with you. First, I received a request to design my Cloudy Day fabric with a light blue background...

My Cloudy Day design is now available in gray, teal, and light blue.

My second new design came about as the result of a recent Spoonflower contest. The theme was to design a "cut and sew" pencil pouch, so I decided to enter. Remember my pencil-shaped pencil pouch tutorial from two years ago? Well, I designed a fat quarter that easily recreates that pouch in record time with no piecing required...

The exterior and interior pieces are all there... all you need to do is cut them out and add some interfacing and a zipper! Here's the final product when it's all sewed up...

Over the past couple of months my designs have started selling! I now have proof that (my mother and I) I'm not the only person who likes my work... and that feels pretty good :)

Blogger Bundle at Tactile Fabrics & Coupon Code

I have some fun news :) Jennifer from Tactile Fabrics contacted me and asked if I would be interested in putting together a blogger bundle of fabrics for her shop. Of course I said yes! I'm so excited to announce that my bundle "Chroma" is now up for sale at Tactile Fabrics!

"Chroma" is the Greek word for color, and it's the perfect description for this rainbow-y and bright bundle of fabric. It was so fun choosing fabrics to put together from Jennifer's shop. It was also a lot harder than I thought it would be ;) Chroma is available in both a fat quarter and a fat eighth bundle... just follow this link to the listing to choose the fabric cut you're interested in.

And here's something fun for all of you... Jennifer is offering Gwenny Penny readers a coupon code for 15% off any purchase from her shop! Use the code GWENNYPENNY15 at checkout to receive the discount. The code is good until the end of the month. I just want to add that I have purchased fabric from Jennifer, and she provides excellent customer service. I highly recommend checking out Tactile Fabrics!

My New Spoonflower Shop

Yesterday I mentioned that I designed all of the fabrics for my divided Easter basket project...

I've been studying and playing around with the idea of fabric design since last summer. At first I thought I wanted to carve stamps based on my sketches, but that has proven to be a very difficult process for me (with the exception of the tooth stamp I carved for my daughter's tooth fairy pillow). Spoonflower never really seemed like an option I was interested in... until I read the Heather Ross Prints book in January. Then I went back into all of the fabric design books I had amassed over the past 8 or 9 months...

and went through them with the goal of designing a little Spoonflower collection. (By the way, all of the books pictured above are excellent. I love them all for different reasons, but you really can't go wrong with any of them.) After fumbling my way through Photoshop Elements, lots of trial and error, and many late nights, I finally did it.

It's amazing to me that my little pencil sketch of a bunny has turned into this...

and this...

and this...

I also sketched a little cloud...

Then I put together a polka dot and a stripe pattern to round out the collection.

Its been a lot of work, but I have learned so much, and it's so rewarding when you get that fabric in your hands and know that it's all yours. If you've ever toyed with the idea of designing fabric on Spoonflower, go for it. It's so worth it!

I have a little Spoonflower shop set up now. If you're interested in any of my fabric designs, check it out :)