I still love Spoonflower

I still love Spoonflower, the fabric printing website, despite them not putting my Dizzy Dinosaur design through to the next round of the Project Selvage competition!.   This is because:

a) All of the 75 semi-finalist designs are super professional looking.  I was very impressed, and felt all of them were deserving of their place. There are some real gems in the selection and I really think Michael Miller should produce more than one new line of fabric from this competition. Go check it out if you get time.

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b) Look at my labels!   

 I printed these using the Spoonflower website because most other fabric label websites I found only allow you to choose text, but not your own logo/fonts.   I ordered a yard and got at least 400 labels, now who's the professional eh?   :)

Til tomorrow x

Dizzy Dinosaurs

Back to the quilt soon, but on saturday night I tackled another of the "Crafty To-do's" from my ever growing list.  This one was designing a fabric to print using the Spoonflower website.  This would probably have been lower down my list, but I was already on the website, printing InspiredbyFelix labels for my cushions (1m of fabric yields c400 fabric washable labels yeay!).   Anyway, whilst there I spotted "Project Selvage" which is a competition Spoonflower are holding. 

The task is to design a baby boy fabric, the top prize, to design a collection for Michael Miller!   Now, as a relative novice to fabric design, I don't expect to win, or get into the top 75 (on which the public vote), but this competition gave me a focus so I gave it a go.  I've been promised a copy of Illustrator from a friend, but whilst that's on its way, I managed with Powerpoint (years of working in business makes you pretty powerpoint proficient!) and other free Photo programmes. 

After faffing about for a couple of hours, I came up with "Dizzy Dinosaurs"

I have ordered a swatch and entered it into the competition!

Seize the day, I say!

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