Who would have guessed that pomegranates would generate so much amazing fabric? While all of the top ten from this competition are a feast to behold, the winner is Australian designer Isabella P., whose lovely fabric "A Jewel of a Fruit" finished first in one of our sweetest contests ever.
VerityMaddox, a mom and User Experience designer from the crafty town of Austin, Texas, logs her first Fabric of the Week contest win this week with the fabulous Ombre Stars & Stripes design you see above. But this was a pretty close contest, with lots of terrific fabrics begging to be turned into bunting or table cloths for a 4th of July picnic. Be sure to check out all the winners!
Our competition to create fabrics inspired by extinct animals ends with the triumphant return of Cean Irminger, one of our all-time champs who -- according to the contest archive -- has been absent from the winner's platform for over a year. Congratulations to Cean, whose pigeon design managed to defeat a flock (gaggle, covey, murder?) of lovely dodo fabrics to take the top spot.
The winner of our palette-restricted contest for geometric shape fabrics is none other than veteran Spoonflowerer SammyK, whose history of previous contest wins is almost too long to list (but you can review many of them on the contest archive page). Suffice it to say she's done it again in a field of amazing entries. Be sure to check out all of this week's well-coordinated top ten.
The votes are in, the fabric-loving community has spoken... The next rock star designer for our friends at Robert Kaufman Fabrics will be Andie Hanna, a fashion designer from Columbus, Ohio, who plays piano, sews, and is also mom to a 5-year-old. Andie's Painted Petals beat out seven other amazing collections to win this year's biggest contest so far. She's got a professional fabric design contract coming her way, as well as a top-notch digital drawing tablet from Wacom. Congratulations to each of the top eight, all of whom have great things in store for them.
Last week we challenged participants to create original family crests and to turn those into fabric designs. While you probably don't share a surname with any of the top ten designers, you still have a chance to buy their fabric, or at least to admire their creativity! This week's winner is "BZB Crest" by Bethany Berndt Shackelford, a terrific LA-based designer who grew up in Kansas.
Not surprisingly, it turns out that the Spoonflower crowd would rather be stylish than speedy, choosing a set of dainty scooters as the winning fabric in our motorcycle-themed contest. Congratulations to Eloisa D., a designer from Crystal River, Florida, and the winner of this week's competition! (You might remember her previous win in the Robot Cheater Quilt contest.) If you're looking for a little more power, be sure to check out the top ten.
With a field of 500 entries, it's a special treat to announce the top ten in our contest for fabric designs created from handmade art. This week's winner is quilter and graphic designer Diane Frazier, whose "Henna Birds" fabric was created using Sharpies.
We had 280 entries in the retro-kitchen fabric design contest, which required participants to use a restricted palette of colors. The top ten are a coordinated bundle of awesome, but the top vote-getter is the amazing "Spoons" by UK designer Alex Morgan. The entire field this week was lovely. Congratulations to the top ten!
We set out to unthrone the owl from its perch as the king of all crafty critters and today we're pleased, and slightly surprised, to be able to announce that the new owl is... snails. This week's winner is the lovely "Snails On Parade" by San Diego designer Cheyanne Sammons. On a pure critter-for-critter count, let it not go un-noted that there are two hedgehog fabrics in this week's top ten, which leaves open the door for a slight argument as to which creature is really the new owl. You be the judge. All of the top ten are terrific.
This week we get to congratulate designer Tamara Serrao (Kayajoy) of Montreal for her 6th Fabric of the Week contest win. Her pattern for sewing two reversible kids' hats won the most votes this week. Pictured here is the first lucky -- and mischievous -- recipient of the winning hat. Congratulations to all the designers who participated in a tough challenge!
Our top ten fabrics this week celebrate the art of making things with fabric. The winner is designer Jennifer Wambach, a talented artist whose previous wins include our bowling, alphabet and pointillism contests. Way to go, Jennifer!
Books on fabric may not be nearly as much fun to read, but on the other hand they're much easier to pack up and move, and less likely to smell musty. This was an unsually close contest, and the winner is first-timer JeAnna Casper (addilou) with "A Wise Old Bookend." I think the top ten are all begging to become lampshades for libraries.
We asked voters this week to choose their favorite one-yard cut & sew patterns for bags. The winner is a terrific, reversible bag by Lucy Baribeau (Fantazya), a designer from Quebec. The rest of the top ten are fun as well, and all are now available for sale. If you decide to make one, keep in mind that the linen-cotton canvas or heavy cotton twill are probably your best bets for sturdy bag fabric.
The top ten fabrics from this week's contest are headed for an exhibit at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where jurors will select their favorite for a grand prize. The people's choice in our voting was Canadian designer Cynthia Frenette's "Take the Detour Route," but all of the top ten offer terrific spins on the contest theme, which centered on the transformation of an urban neighborhood using selected photos as inspiration.
Keeping in mind that this contest consisted of a juried group of designs to begin with and that the top prize is actually going to be selected by judges from the Textile Center, the top ten designers are:
Apart from giving birth to a formidable new tongue twister (see above), our Staff Challenge contest has created a slew of cool new decorations for our already-colorful office. The winners? None other than Darci and Tim, who concocted a madly ambitious project that required placing over 100 individual LED lights onto a stunning world map printed on linen-cotton canvas and stretched onto a frame.
Llittle boys all over can now celebrate a world with the potential to produce many more robot quilts than were possible just a week ago. We are very excited to show you the top ten entries from our robot cheater quilt competition, the winner of which is Eloisa D., of Natitys Design, a "fabric-o-holic" from Florida whose design won the most votes out of a group of fabulous entries.
Last week's contest challenge required designers to create Toile de Jouy fabrics inspired by the histories of the places where they live. The top ten offer a world tour as well as a set of mini-history lessons, with toiles de Brooklyn (NY), Chattanooga (TN), Haarlemmermeer (Netherlands), Paris, Tilba (Australia), Le Roy (NY), Riverside (CA), and Yosano (Japan). For the second week in a row, however, the winner is a Belgian designer (we erred in last week's newsletter when we wrote that Zesti was Dutch). Cally, of Forest&Sea, won the most votes with her fascinating "Medieval Woodcut" toile depicting Brugge, Belgium. Lovely work!
As a cluster of great bicycle fabrics came into the final stage of this week's competition, one designer broke away and finished the week wearing the yellow jersey (or interlock knit, in our case). She is Ine Beerten (Zesti), a DutchBelgian illustrator (so sorry, Ine!) whose work we've had reason to admire previously in the Project Selvage finals from last year, as well in our kite and carousel contests. Congratulations, Ine!
Our winner this week is Virginie Ozanon (demigoutte), a talented young French designer who won our first ditsy-themed contest last fall. Her "Sparkling Jellies" design took the most votes in a contest that was just swimming with lovely fabrics.
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