Friday Photo: To Boston With Love

To honor the people of Boston after the recent race day tragedy, the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild organized To Boston With Love, an installation of peace and love flags to be displayed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  Local Spoonflower community members put needle to fabric along with quilt guilds and crafty individuals around the world to create flags to show Boston our love and support.  This Friday afternoon we put the finishing touches on over 60 flags and sent them on their way to the exhibit.

Friday Photo: Cat Shirt Friday

A coincidence that could only happen at Spoonflower HQ, Cat Shirt Friday. 

Friday Photo: Spoonflower Crew Enjoying Friday Lunch

Friday afternoons the Spoonflower team enjoys lunch together, sometimes it's a working lunch, other meals are spent simply catching up.  Today we enjoyed Nanataco for an early Cinco de Mayo celebration! 

Friday Photo: Chillin' with Cornelius

Spoonflower crew member Kelly takes a break on a busy Friday afternoon to spend a little time with Cornelius, Spoonflower's resident unicorn.  

Friday Photo: Be Prepared!

Today the Spoonflower crew -- including Jaysen here -- took turns training to use a fire extinguisher. We hope we don't ever have to use one, but it's good to be prepared!

Friday Photo: Fabric Semi Party

Newest Spoonflower team member, Erika, experienced her first fabric semi party this Friday afternoon led by Paula, who clearly showed her how to have a great time!  For anyone who wonders what we do with any excess or flawed fabric, we put it all in a semi-trailer behind our office that, once full, gets shredded and recycled.  

Friday Photo: Turning the Wheels Of the Website

Chad Graves, a member of Spoonflower's engineering team, writes code powered by loud music a couple of hours before heading out to enjoy the beautiful North Carolina weather this Friday afternoon!

Friday Photo: Knit Baby Blankets

Some of the Spoonflower crew spent an evening sewing up a colorful stack of baby blankets from organic cotton knit for Darci to share with a children's home on her upcoming trip to Uganda. 

Friday Photo: New Spoonflower T-shirts!

I forgot to post this on Friday... a partial staff group photo featuring our new Spooflower T-shirts designed by Adam. Woo-hoo!

Friday Photo: Man With the Cool Guitar

Adam strums a Spoonflower-decal-covered guitar that will accompany our
crew to QuiltCon in Austin next week.

Friday Photo: Fabric Fixation

On this chilly North Carolina Friday a hoodie-clad John feeds fabric rolls through our heat-fixation machine Ajax (pictured is SammyK's Mexico Springtime fabric).

Friday Photo: Spoonflower Warehouse

Our other Stephen--popularly known as "Mr. Beck" around the Spoonflower office--smiles in front of a wall of unprinted fabric rolls in the Spoonflower warehouse.  He knows it's Friday.  

Happy weekend, everyone!

Friday Photo: Spoonflower staff quilt night!

Some of the Spoonflower crew learned to sew quilted mug rugs in the Greenhouse last night! Guided by fellow Spoonflower staffer Caitlin, Holly's (top left) mug rug features Fruity Ditsy fabric by Demigoutte and Heather Dutton's Barnacle Net, and Beth (bottom left) used City Bikes by Grace Design and Grey Diamond Linen by Holli Zollinger. Paula (bottom right) sewed up a mug rug in Zesti's Koi No Bori, Leah (middle right) used Ikat Diamond fabric by Fable Design, and you can see Kelly (top right) sewing up her project in Beyond the Sea: Ikat Coral by ThreeYellowPlums. 

Friday Photo: Cutting Down the Fabric

Today's installment of the Friday Photo finds a slightly impish Kelsey cutting down fabric swatches in the late afternoon. Note that during shooting the photographer was forced to defend against an aggressive photo bomb by Kelsey's colleague Paula. Happy Friday, everyone!

Friday Photo: Have A Crafty Christmas

Our office Christmas tree is full of ornaments made using Spoonflower fabric

For all of you celebrating Christmas next week, Merry Christmas from the team here at Spoonflower. Our last rush packages have just gone out for delivery Monday, and the holiday buzz is already starting to fade a bit.  Tomorrow we'll settle back in to a quieter pace of work for the next week or two. We're looking back on a lovely and eventful year -- which included a move to a new office for us and the addition of more than fifteen new Spoonflorists to the team, as well as the launch of custom wall paper and wall decals -- and looking forward to a creative new one. We're looking forward to seeing you in 2013!

Friday Photo: Zen Fountain of Customer Service

In this week's Friday Photo, David and Beth allow the soothing sound of the customer service wall fountain to assist them in finding their Zen as they help some of Spoonflower's many terrific (but occasionally stressed out) customers. In the foreground stands the original prototype for Cornelius the Unicorn.

Friday Photo: Gift Wrap For Zombies

Photo includes a glimpse of Neon Pink Brains gift wrap by sufficiency

Among the rolls of wrapping paper getting ready to go out the door, we've spotted some amazing and unique designs. Among our favorites? This brain wrapping paper, which might be just the thing to use on gifts for your little zombies.

Friday Photo: Cutting Fabric In Spoonflower's New Office

Paula & Joey are seen here cutting fabric in the new Spoonflower office. We moved a week ago today, but from the pace of things -- as you can see -- you'd think we had been here for months!

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From left to right, Spoonflower help desk staffers David Woodward, Beth Carr, Stephen Beck, and Theresa Rizzuto.

Why is the Spoonflower help team smiling like this?  Must be because they're safely installed at desks now located in the new Spoonflower office!  Our move mission is officially accomplished, and we've got a weekend to rest before finishing the unpacking and beginning the much-anticipated beautification of our new digs.  Happy weekend, everyone!

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Stephanie Anton, part of the Spoonflower engineering crew, bellying up to a food truck in Puerto Rico earlier this year.

Two days ago, Stephanie finished up her last day at Spoonflower as a single girl and headed to Charleston, SC to finish last-minute preparations for her wedding tomorrow.  Our very best wishes for a long and happy life together, Stephanie and Trent--cheers!