Mollie Makes Birds

 

So my family and I made it through Hurrican Sandy OK, we didn't lose power or anything.

Being stuck inside all day gives you time to work on projects.  One of my projects is to design a bird fabric for Spoonflower's fabric of the week.  The theme is birds or flight and the winner gets their fabric on Mollie Makes a cool British blog/magazine. 

 

 

Rough sketches of whimsical birds.

 

The contest is palette restricted which means my design can only use these four colors chosen by Spoonflower or Mollie Makes or both.  I like these choices, they're cheerful and soft.

 

 

 

Patriotic Super Stars

My entry into the Spoonflower's Stars and Stripes Contest.  There are lots of vote-worthy designs this week.  Take a look and choose your faves.

Subtle Design

When I make a design sure I want it to catch people's attention.  It should jump out and say "YO!  HERE I AM!!" (especially if it's part of a Spoonflower contest) shouldn't it?  But sometimes you just want a fabric with a bit of design to make things visually interesting but not so much that it dominates the whole room or outfit or quilt it's going to be a part of.  When you consider what you personally might do with a fabric would you want such a bold design? The above design, called "Circle Star" I think works best as a tone on tone but it can carry a two color scheme as well.  If you are a Spoonflower contest voter and you feel this design is worthy, give it a click in this week's limited palette contest.  The palette is the purple and green and the theme is 'geometric.'  There are a lot of great In-Your-Face designs in the contest this week and I voted for a lot of them, but I didn't discount some of the more subtle designs.  You shouldn't either (and I'm not just saying that because I want your vote.)

Squirrel Nut Papers

Just posted in my Etsy shop.  I'm so excited about my newest paper collection!  I wanted a little polka dot but something a little more fun and so I came up with a tiny acorn.  You can't have acorns without squirrels and there's always room for paisley.  I'm not so sure about the orange though.  What do you think?  I'm thinking about a second collection with a different color.  Blue maybe.  I am running a contest on my FB page  in which you may be able to download one of these papers for free! 

Spoonflower Dolls - Update

Well I did not make the top 10 of the contest, not for lack of support though.  I am grateful to everyone who went to Spoonflower and voted for my dolls.  I was up against some very good designs.  Perhaps the next contest I'll be luckier.

*The polls are open! Please vote for my entry. You can vote for one entry on each page, my entry is on page 4, the last page. Thank you in advance ;D

This week begins the doll-panel contest at Spoonflower. These 3 lovely ladies are my entry into this contest. Their bodies are made from other fabric designs that I've done. My last Spoonflower contest entry was done last minute and half-hearted. This entry is very much whole hearted. I want very much to reach the top ten.

And the winner is.....

I used Wordle to do my random drawing. Wordle is a fun time-waste-y site that you can fiddle with for endless minutes. You can either paste your text, or you can put in the web addy of your site and it randomly chooses words from it to make a Wordle.
I typed all of your names into the engine, pre-chose a spot (by closing my eyes and jimmying the mouse around) and then hit 'Go.' The person whose name was closest to the mouse when it finished its design was Nance who heard of my contest through Twitter.
Congratulations, Nance! I hope you enjoy your coloring book. Thanks very much to everyone who participated and again to Tiffany for the great idea! The coloring book is now available in my Etsy Shop for $1.99

Grownups like to color too!

A passerby named Tiffany pointed out, after this post, that she'd like a coloring book like the one I jokingly mentioned. I got to thinking--maybe she's not the only one. I love to color with my daughter, but Strawberry Shortcake and Elmo sort of bore me. I've got a file about a quarter of an inch thick of things that are 'in progress.' Why not make a genuine grownup coloring book? I know it's not an original idea. There have been other non-kiddie coloring books BUT none of those contain my original work. To test out consumer interest in this idea, I am running a contest. Leave a comment here on my blog. Be sure to leave a link for me to get back to you if you win. And, if you have an extra second, tell me how you heard of my giveaway--facebook, deviantart, twitter etc. I will randomly choose a winner on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. EST (and have it posted by 10:30). That lucky person will get the whole 10 page file FREE! Good luck!

P.S. The coloring book WON'T have watermarks!