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Category: fabric

  • Inspired by :: hand drawn digital fabrics

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    Robert Kauffman Fabrics and Spoonflower have teamed up again with a Fabric 8 contest around the theme of Pen & Ink. With well over 700 submissions they managed to narrow it down to 8 finalists and these are just 4 of them. I have no idea how you would approach such a task but I…

  • Fabric :: vintage small prints

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    I stumbled across a collection of vintage feedsack clipart that I’d downloaded from Pugly Pixel (which I wanted to link to but couldn’t find it on her site) and I seem to have been pondering small print fabrics ever since. I first became aware of feedsack fabrics when we moved to Atlanta, which also coincided…

  • A little bit vintage

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    Happy New Year friends… I know it’s the 3rd today and I’m a bit late but I’m really not a fan of January 1st. I’m not sure why that is but I’m always happier when the 2nd rolls around. I’m going for a few changes on my blog front – nothing too drastic but I’m…

  • Innocent Crush by Anna Maria Horner

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    This is a very small selection from the latest collection by Anna Maria Horner. Please look closely at these and tell me you don’t see a paisley influence. I’m seeing paisley everywhere I go at the moment. I run hot and cold when it comes to her fabric but I’m loving the red and turquoise.…

  • My fabric designs on Spoonflower

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    I was waiting until I received the swatches before I shared this with you. Here they are – fabric of my design direct from Spooflower. I’m really please with how they turned out, it was a giant learning curve for me to create a repeating pattern but it seems to have worked. Also trying to…

  • Can You See Something Ticking?

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    Do you ever become aware of something e.g. a word, a colour or a concept and then you see and hear it everywhere you go? This is me and striped ticking at the moment. I am seeing it everywhere I look. Is it more prevalent than it used to be or am I just more…

  • More Fabric

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    This post was actually to see if I could post from my iPhone. The image came across OK but no text?

  • More about fabric

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    I am becoming increasingly interested in learning how to print my own fabric. I recently stumbled across some inspiring Australians that are doing some lovely work. The top picture is a fabric pack from the Ink & Spindle online store. They are a group of three textile designers based in Melbourne that hand print their…