These tea towels will be available soon in my Spoonflower shop. (the vegetables are now listed and available for sale - if you are interested choose the linen fat quarter).
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By: Amy Schimler,
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on 2/29/2012
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My favourite fabric so far is a new version I designed of the Art Deco Parrot, this time in a blue, white and grey colour scheme.
I ordered a yard so I could make a pair of cushions in the cotton-linen blend fabric they offer. Being able to design the fabric myself was great because I actually adjusted the scale slightly so that I could fit two cushions with parrots down the middle of the front and back with just 1 yard.
Here's a picture of the cushions:
I love this fabric, it has a bit of weight to it and the nice feel of linen while the cotton makes it less floppy than pure linen. Incidentally, I also love the new Kona cotton that Spoonflower is now offering for a quilting weight fabric.
So I feel I've finally reached the point where I can design exactly what I want to decorate the home without having to compromise. I'd like to do curtains too, but that's a lot more expensive so it may be a while!
By: Amy Schimler,
on 5/20/2011
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I just posted this design on Spoonflower that can be printed for a tea towel. You can print a fat quarter (21"x18") and choose linen/cotton.
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on 9/21/2014
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Coming soon to my Spoonflower shop
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By: Floating Lemons,
on 8/31/2014
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Remember the exciting news I've been holding onto these past few months? Well, it's all happening now: I've moved from France to the English countryside. Why? I'm going back to school! To be precise, I'm going to attend, for the first time ever, art college. There's a ton of reasons for my doing so, and I'll chat about them as we go along to classes together this year, but it's a huge step for me and wonderfully exciting. I'm looking forward to learning tons, and to adding depth to my work and my life. It's never too late.
Which is why everything has been slightly haywire, upside-down, inside-out and choatic lately, and I have to apologise again for the lack of updates here, but you'll have to admit that it's for a brilliant reason and that you can't help but feel happy for me ...
I did manage to find time here and there to tackle a few more Spoonflower daily drawing challenges, though I was left far behind during the packing and moving bit of my journey. I'm still going to carry on and complete their themes despite the fact that the spoonchallenge is officially over today. Still, it keeps me therapeutically content having my pencils, pens, and trusty moleskine journal in hand.
Here are another 5 of the Spoonchallenges:
#SpoonChallenge 6: LEMON
#SpoonChallenge 7: BOOK
#SpoonChallenge 8: ARROW
#SpoonChallenge 9: TEA
#SpoonChallenge 10: TOAST
I have a ton of mundane practical things to take care of before courses begin mid-September, but today is Sunday and it's lovely and sunny here in the English countryside, something not to be taken too much for granted. So I'm having a short but, I think, well-deserved break with tea and the papers in the garden of wonderfully welcoming friends where I'm staying for the moment. Join me ...
Wishing everyone a glorious week. Will update again very soon! Cheers.
By: Floating Lemons,
on 8/10/2014
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I've been so extra busy this past couple of months that I've barely had time to draw. So you'd be forgiven for considering me certifiably insane when I tell you that I joined the one month Spoonflower daily drawing challenge ... but you see, it's because I couldn't make time to draw that I joined it. I needed that push, excuse, motivation ... to pick up the pens or pencils again and indulge in some much needed creative therapy.
And it's been wonderful. Fine, I was a bit late with a couple of the pieces (busy busy busy, remember?) but so far I've managed to keep up - by the skin of my teeth perhaps, but still. Here are the first 5 themed sketches, drawn in my moleskine sketchbook:
1. CACTUS
2. MOUNTAIN
3. TREE
4. LANDSCAPE
5. RIVER
I'm quite pleased with myself. I had tons of fun, and there are loads of ideas that I can use and carry on playing with, from each of the drawings. But the main thing is (have I mentioned?), I had tons of fun.
One of my in-progress pieces was also featured in the Spoonflower blog round-up of drawings from week 1, how absolutely cool is that? Can't wait for the coming week - and it's not too late to join the daily challenge if you wish to. Just pick that pen/pencil/brush up, and then #SpoonChallenge the results onto your social media ... for details and the daily topic, check out the Spoonflower blog. Wishing you a fantastic week. Cheers.
By: Amy Schimler,
on 7/8/2013
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A new version of my collaged birds from Creatures and Critters with Robert Kaufman is now available in my Spoonflower shop.
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on 6/22/2013
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Here is another design just posted to my Spoonflower shop from Animal Party 2 which will be available for sale in a couple of weeks, once I receive my sample.
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 6/21/2013
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Do you remember these sweet little birds from my first collection, On A Whim, with Robert Kaufman fabrics? It will be available for sale in my Spoonflower shop in a couple of weeks. I am gradually going to re-introduce patterns from my previous collections with Robert Kaufman that are no longer for sale.
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By: Amy Schimler,
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I am ordering a sample, but once I receive it I will be selling this new print in my Spoonflower shop.
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 3/11/2013
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I used this simple pattern from Made by Rae to sew up some baby pants. Don't know why I love sewing baby pants, I just do. It was so satisfying to make something with this little hippo print.
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Hippos printed by Spoonflower
Dots from my On A Whim 2 collection printed by Robert Kaufman
Flowers from my On a Whim collection printed by Robert Kaufman
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 1/30/2013
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I just uploaded two more designs onto Society 6 - a graphic deer image and coordinating stripe. This is what they look like on some products. I am going to be printing fabrics with these on Spoonflower as well.
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on 9/16/2012
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... literally. I found this great baby hat pattern from Nani Iro. I used my Spoonflower mushroom fabric and Fly Away dots.
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on 7/28/2012
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I am, very slowly, learning more about Surface Design. And discovering that I'm loving it. It's certainly not a simple process, but I do love puzzles and that probably helps, as putting the separate pieces together to make a cohesive (and aesthetically pleasing!) whole is definitely a large part of the overall process. I just hope that I'm getting it right.
Following on from my Daisy Joy, I've drawn 5 Poinsettia plants in the same style, and attempted once more to create a pattern from them. Here's one of the painted Poinsettias, and below that are the fabrics I've designed from them.
As the Poinsettia plant is so closely associated with Christmas, I've picked cheery seasonal colours for the backgrounds ...
Poinsettia Joy dots Fabric Collection
Poinsettia Joy red Fabric Collection
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 7/23/2012
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I sewed some cute ruffled pants with my Spoonflower fabrics - using my purple dots from Fly Away and the line birds from On a Whim 2.
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 4/15/2012
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Just uploaded another new print to Spoonflower. It will be available for sale soon.
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 4/12/2012
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Coming soon, just uploaded and ordered these two prints. They will be available for purchase soon.
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By: Claire Louise Milne,
on 2/29/2012
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I ordered a yard so I could make a pair of cushions in the cotton-linen blend fabric they offer. Being able to design the fabric myself was great because I actually adjusted the scale slightly so that I could fit two cushions with parrots down the middle of the front and back with just 1 yard.
Here's a picture of the cushions:
So I feel I've finally reached the point where I can design exactly what I want to decorate the home without having to compromise. I'd like to do curtains too, but that's a lot more expensive so it may be a while!
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By: Amy Schimler,
on 5/20/2011
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I sewed up a group of 6" wash cloths from On A Whim 2 and Animal Party Too fabrics.
Also just unpacked my latest Spoonflower fabric - have a cute summer dress pattern planned for this -
I am loving the scale of this fabric -
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on 6/15/2010
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Some of you may remember when I tried my hand at making a mandala a couple of years back.
I did this one mostly with rubber stamps, embellished and circled with colored pencils. I really like how it turned out, so I started offering it as cards on Etsy.
Enter Spoonflower, a place where you can upload your designs to see how they'd look on fabric! I think Margaret told us about this before. :)
If you like how it came out and would like to offer it for sale on their site, you have to order this size piece first so you can approve how it looks. It's around $12.00
(This is terrible lighting, sorry.)
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By: Susan Mitchell,
on 10/21/2008
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Craftsylish Magazine
I just heard that a Christmas design I submitted to Spoonflower got a mention in Craftstylish magazine :)
Here is the design that was selected:
Getting some of my fabric designs printed is one of the things on my very long list that I would like to get done before Christmas. I have been putting it off because I want to make sure I actually use the fabric and not just keep it stashed in a cupboard. But then again, if I don't have the fabric, I can't use it..... I think it's time to make an order.
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By: Susan Mitchell,
on 6/11/2008
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Hello folks, it's been a while hasn't it? I would like to say that I have been off adventuring but instead I have been sitting at my little desk working away. I just finished up two books for mother's day and father's day for Little Simon (Simon & Schuster) and am now busy working on another project.
I haven't had much time for dreaming and sewing but when I next have some free time, I want to get back to making some bunnies and bears. I have been thinking about having a go at making little outfits for them and thought it would be fun to use fabric with my own art on it - so I have have signed up with Spoonflower an amazing site where you can design your own patterns. I have played around with a few designs - haven't ordered any actual fabric yet, but thought I would show you what I have come up with so far. It's interesting working with pattern, quite different from illustration. I think in some ways simpler is probably the best way to go and I tend to make the patterns too busy. It may take me awhile to get the hang of it and come up with something worth printing! Here are my first attempts:
Cakes - I like this one but not sure if I should space the cakes farther apart and give them more breathing room:
Pumpkins:
Hee! Not quite working yet, but I love these guys:
Dandelions blue:
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So cute!