Free Swatch Day is humming along and will be live until noon tomorrow (EST, or GMT -4 :00).
As of 5pm we've given away about 1,500 swatches since noon (still to be printed -- yikes!) and earned $500 for Heifer International, which is enough to buy... a heifer!
Great work so far, folks! Don't forget to pop over and vote for your favorite tractor fabrics while you are here.
Free Swatch Day is now live and will run for the next 24 hours (until noon tomorrow (EST, or GMT -4 :00). The site is very, very slow because of traffic, but if you're willing to wait a few hours to put in your order things should settle down. Keep in mind that if you have a swatch in your shopping cart from before the promotion went live, you will need to refresh the page to see the cost of the swatch calculate as $0.00.
Please consider using the donation box at checkout to give the $5 you might have spent on a swatch to Heifer.org!
Just a reminder -- because there has been a bit of confusion already -- Free Swatch Day will run for 24 hours starting at noon today (EST). As soon as we 'turn on' the promotion at noon, a swatch added to your cart will show up as free and you will not be asked for payment details as you check out unless you've added some additional item to your shopping cart.
This week's Fabric Of the Week contest is about tractors! Vote for all the designs you like and next week we'll report back on the fabrics that win the most votes. Thanks for participating!
The participating designers this week are:
Deborah van de Leijgraaf, a very talented artist from The Netherlands, wins the Fabric Of the Week competition this time around, but not without serious competition. Deborah's lovely "Happy Home" got exactly one more vote than the runner-up, another terrific Windows & Doors design by Allison Beilke of Wisconsin. I thought this was a terrific week for fabric designs -- all of the participants deserve congratulations!
SEE THE TOP TEN WINDOWS & DOORS FABRICS
The final voting results were:
1. 662 votes for Happy Home by bora
2. 661 votes for Doors & Windows by acbeilke
3. 509 votes for DutchHouses by blue_jacaranda
4. 481 votes for windows xp vs the doors the band by matthandlersux
5. 479 votes for SpoonflowerWindowsAndDoors03-ch by steffstyle
6. 478 votes for Doors and Window Shopping by pattysloniger
7. 447 votes for Felt Houses by juliamonroe
8. 421 votes for Cat in the Window by audreyclayton
9. 416 votes for Doors by edubgraphicart
10. 399 votes for Urban Twilight by tamarack
HOW DOES IT WORK? This offer is limited to one swatch per customer. To activate the discount, just add a swatch-sized piece of fabric to your shopping cart between noon EST on Thursday, August 26 and noon EST on Friday, August 27, then proceed to checkout. The discount will be subtracted from your cart total automatically. Note that in order to receive your swatches, you need to follow the transaction through to the order confirmation page. [And yes, shipping is free, too.] This offer works for your own designs or for any of the designs available for sale in the Spoonflower marketplace.
PRINT YOUR OWN DESIGN: If you're new to Spoonflower this is a great chance to test the quality of our fabric and our printing for free. Just go to the Spoonflower home page, click Get Started, upload one or more designs, click on your design and then follow the instructions above.
SHOP FOR FABRICS BY INDIE DESIGNERS: Instead of printing your own fabric, choose a free swatch from any of the thousands of unique designs in the Spoonflower marketplace.
TRY A NEW FABRIC: We currently offer six base fabrics to choose from, including quilting cotton, organic cotton sateen, organic interlock knit, upholstery-weight cotton twill, linen-cotton canvas, and cotton lawn. Read more about our fabrics.
Spoonflower is still a small company. This our second Free Swatch Day. The first time we did this was a year ago when Spoonflower was an even smaller company, but we've decided once again this year to try to take the opportunity to do something worthwhile.
While we don't yet have much in the way of extra cash that we can direct toward organizations that promote ideas we value like sustainability, we are wealthy in one respect. Spoonflower is the hub of a large, well networked community of over 100,000 amazing, creative people. So we've decided to give everyone who takes advantage of Free Swatch Day on Spoonflower the option to take the $5 they would normally pay for a swatch and instead to make a donation to Heifer International, an organization that provides livestock, training and services to small farmers and communities around the world.
When you enter the shopping cart with your free swatch you'll see a donation box on the check out page where you can fill in any amount you'd like to donate to Heifer.org, click a donate button, and see the donation amount added to your cart total.
We'll report on the amount raised throughout the day on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page as well as on the Spoonflower blog once it's all over.
What is a swatch and why aren't they always free? A swatch in this case is an 8 inch x 8 inch square of fabric custom printed with your design. Printed swatches normally cost $5 each. If you just want a sample book of unprinted fabric to see what it's like, we can send you that anytime for $1. The order form is on our fabrics page.
Can I email you an image to print? To take us up on our offer you have to use Spoonflower to create and order your swatch. That means uploading your (original) design or photo to a Spoonflower account, choosing your fabric and repeat style, and checking out using the instructions listed above.
Do I have to make a donation to Heifer? A donation is entirely optional. If you have another organization you'd like to support with a $5 donation, do that instead. You don't have to donate $5, either. Donate in any amount you like. Read more about Heifer.
How can I track my donation? The downside of raising money through Spoonflower is that we can't offer the ability to monitor and track your contribution and we can't offer you a receipt for making a tax deductible donation. We'll keep everyone informed about what we're doing on our blog, but if you want real accountability then by all means leave the donation box on your Spoonflower checkout page blank, then head on over to Heifer.org and make a donation yourself on their secure site.
If you have a question that we have not answered on this page, please feel free to contact us by emailing help@spoonflower.com.
It is with enormous relief that I can announce that Spoonflower's turnaround time for fabric orders is down to about 12 days, and by the end of the week it will be under 10 days again for the first time in several months. We are cranking out the fabric from our new production facility in Durham, North Carolina.
Our newly air-conditioned selves are very, very grateful for your patience as we've made this transition. We hope never to return to those bad old days of making people wait weeks for their lovely fabrics.
We owe everyone a video of our new office, which may have to wait another week or so, but we've also got an exciting announcement coming later today that I hope will partly make up for the fact that we've been so slow this summer. So stay tuned!
Nadia Hassan, a designer who lives right down the road from Spoonflower in Greensboro, North Carolina, wins this week's Fabric Of the Week contest with her lovely "des oiseaux". The theme of the contest -- surreal fruit -- was quite difficult, but the top ten finishers are terrific.
SEE THE TOP TEN SURREAL FRUIT FABRICS
The final voting results were:
1. 705 votes for des oiseaux by surlybirdstudio
2. 595 votes for prank calls by babysisterrae
3. 551 votes for Ceci nest pas une plum by francine
4. 536 votes for Funny Fruit by bora
5. 488 votes for orbit of the fruits by annosch
6. 465 votes for Floating_Citrus_Stars by luana_life
7. 419 votes for Surrealist: Fruity Abode by simboko
8. 349 votes for Frenchy Fruits by pattysloniger
9. 345 votes for Fruits in the Sky by isabelchun
10. 335 votes for Page 8206 by pixo
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