Variations on a Fabric
A while ago, Spoonflower had a contest to create a Hawaiian ‘cheater’ quilt design, and I wrote about my design here and about the wall quilt I made from the fabric here. Here’s the original design,...
View ArticleNot Boxed In
The latest design contest at Spoonflower is all about geometrics, and creating the design using only two colors (RGB #a7bb7d and #724b64) plus white. I like geometrics, so I thought this would be a...
View ArticleHand Drawn Repeats
We have friends visiting from out of town, and the two middle-school-aged kids like to do art projects. I thought it would be fun to show them how to do repeat patterns using their own drawings. They...
View ArticleTurtles on the Beach — Another Fabric Design
Spoonflower’s contest this week is to design a one-yard zigzag cheater quilt. I immediately thought of the turtle I’ve used in a few other designs. This post shows a Hawaiian design I made using the...
View ArticleDancing Matisse
For this week’s fabric design contest Spoonflower partnered with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University with the theme of designing a textile that would look at home in a Matisse painting. They...
View ArticleGeckos — and Using Clipping Masks in Illustrator
Another week, another Spoonflower fabric design contest. The theme for this contest is Australian Animals. So many great options it was hard to pick — kangaroos, wombats, koala bears, emu, platypus,...
View ArticleA Dozen Eggs — Painted in a 12-Step Color Wheel
Another week, another Spoonflower fabric design contest. The theme for this contest is Painted Eggs. I thought I’d create a bunch of 3-dimensional eggs and ‘paint’ them with some of my other fabric...
View ArticleSailing Notan Style — And the Evolution of a Design
Spoonflower’s weekly design contest theme is “Sailing” and I immediately knew I wanted to use the Notan design I wrote about in this post. That design used 4 different sail boat-inspired patterns (on...
View ArticleSnapshots from a Geek Convention
Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics are sponsoring a fabric design contest with the theme being “Geek Chic”. As a chemical engineer in a previous life, I have a lot of practical experience with...
View ArticleCitrus Mod — A Wallpaper Design
This week’s Spoonflower design contest is to create a Mod wallpaper design, using only 3 colors (plus black or white optional). When I was a teen, I had one wall of my bedroom papered with an op art...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....