It's Thursday morning and as I sit here typing and taking slow sips of much-needed coffee, exhaustion mingles with astonishment. As you may remember, over the past month or so we ran two holiday-themed Fabric Of the Week contests and got quite a few entries -- enough to challenge the primitive logistics of running our little contest. So -- just to give ourselves a bit of a break - we decided that the next design theme should be obscure. If it's a really narrow theme, went our thinking, we'll get only a few entries and that will make next week into an easy one. So as a theme we chose fabric designs that included "spoons and flowers." Narrow, right? Well we got seventy entries (in four days). Creativity thrives on adversity, does it not? You folks are amazing. And I am really tired.
Because we had seventy entries this week and didn't want to turn 'Spoons and Flowers' into a four-week contest, we've done things a bit differently this time around. Regular voters know that we usually print samples of all the competing fabrics and photograph them for the voting. This time we did not. When you click on the voting link this week instead of photos you'll see digital versions of the designs rendered as they would look in repeat on a fat quarter of fabric (21" x 18"). There are seven pages of designs with 10 designs per page (and lots of good ones on the back pages, so keep going until the end). You can cast up to three votes per page, but you don't have to cast any votes on a page unless you see a design or designs you really love. We gave you three votes per page in case all your favorite designs end up on one page of the poll.
At the close of voting next week (Tuesday), we will take the top fifteen vote-getting designs, print them on fabric, photograph them and post them for voting in a final round in which you will have only one vote (on Thursday). That's how we'll come up with the winner.
In the meantime, thanks and congratulations to the amazing folks who put their creativity to work on the task of creating fabric designs that use both spoons and flowers. Take a look through the entries -- there is some really lovely work.
Vote here. Follow the results in real time here.
The entrants are:
1) db_spoon_and_flower_03 by Darci Falin
2) spoonflower-ed by Alice Cochran
3) Nasturtiums Spoons Mosaic by Jane Walker
4)'4SpoonsOfFlowers' by auntiecats
5) Spooning Orchid by Cynthia Strickland
6) Spoonflower_contest by Sylvia Ion
7) My_Milkshake_Brings by Corrie Jeffords
8) Measuring Spoons by disgustedcats
9) Spoon and flower by cynthiafrenette
10) vll_april_showers_may_bring_spoonflowers by victorialasher
11) SP_GD by Gail Paula DeLeon
12) 9_09_Spoonflower_final11 by electricgoddess33
13) bakersspoonflowers by elisabeth
14) spoonsflowerslion by Emily Whittaker
15) flower_spoon_fabric_idea by nanayane
16) Spoon Flower Festival by geemarie
17) Spoonflowers4 by Rosey_Lady
18) spoonflower by hadleyhutton
19) Fleur de Cuillère by Heather Dutton
20) EPSN7698_copy by this_n_that
21) Flower_Spoons_and_Bumble_Bees by Jennie Baer
22) spoonflower_owl_2 by Gila von Meissner
23) 'vintage_spoonsnflowers' by snork
24) Daisy Spoon by Jenimp
25) Dandylion-ed by Jane Crowe
26) Jiah_spoonflower_entry by Jiah
27) SpoonFlower by karidesign
28) i dig flowers by spoonflower4kelli
29) justspoony by Kelli Perkins
30) Spoons and Flowers Westie Chef by Kim Niles
31) Roses and Spoonflowers by Kathy Howard
32) my-grandmother_s-spoon by katy keuter
33) Pickin' Spoonflowers by kkitwana
34) grow_where_you_grow_best by kate_ryskamp
35) spoonflower by Maryalina
36) SpoonFlower Apron by monkeybutt
37) Spoon_Power by Lindsay Nightingale
38) Green Tea by Linda Graham
39) antiquespoonflower by Leslie Pepper
40) blooming spoons by LucindaNewtonDunn
41) Crazy_Spoon_Flowers by Sandra Stewart
42) spoonflowerfun by windflower
43) spoonflower-04 by Mendi Bradley
44) Spoonflower3 by Meredith McDaris
45) lovinspoonful by Michelle Freedman
46) 'Dish and Spoon' by cateanevski
47) Golden Spoon by Nancy Malay
48) Spoons and Flowers, Flowers and Spoons by Pam LaReaux
49) spoon by Ky Deslatte
50) flower_power_spoon_repeat-ch by Susan Philpott
51) Catching Flowers by Cathy Fronczak
52) Thirteenth time's the charm...by Kristi White
53) flowers and spoons by April Marie Mai
54) spoons-made-from-flowers by royalforest
55) spf318 by Ruth Marler
56) Bug Garden by Sebastian Cruz
57) Chocolate Spoon Flowers by Shala Kerrigan
58) light blue spoons by Robin Devereux
59) spoonflower by shout4joy2thelord
60) PIC_0007 by pumpkincatzak
61) My_Soonflower by Alex Morgan
62) curtains colored by staceyjoy elkin
63) Spoondylions by periwinklepaisley
64) 'spoons_and_flowers' by susalabim
65) doodle_M_001-ch by Tracy Denney
66) spoonflower bud by Linda Tieu
67) Flower-spoon-tea by Timothy Rayner
68) spoonflower_1jpg by vo
69) 'Blooming Spoons' by uptown_girl
70) HarvestSpoon by Kathleen Fajardo
