Wow. It's not getting any easier to get all of these designs set up for voting each week. But it's worth it! 68 designs were submitted this week for our Toile de Jouy Fabric Of the Week contest. You can vote for all your favorites (on 2 polling pages) by clicking on the image below.
The participating designers this week are:
- toile_bluecream by Adriana Hernandez
- Strawberry Tea by Alex Morgan
- pansy_toile_blue by Ali_C
- Floral Hydrangea Toile by Amy Kuhl Cox
- Little Hungry Bear Toile by annette ooyevaar
- Techie Toile in Coral by Barbra Ignatiev
- tallships toile by bowsprite
- Sewing-Toile by Christine Hansen
- modern Toile de Jouy direct from Paris by corentine
- A Garden Wedding by Cynthia Strickland
- Shadow Tree of Tears Toile by Deborah Lynn Bielski
- Retro Folk Toile – Red by Denisse DiGiorgio
- Artichoke from Seed to Flower Toile by elisabeth
- funky gypsy toile by Elizabeth McKenzie
- San Marco Toile by Emily Valenza
- Sweet Ba by Toile by Erica
- Orang by Ernest Mohs
- Goblin Market Toile de Jouy by Fiona McDonald
- Flower Fairy Toile by Heidi Kaether
- red toile by Holli Zollinger
- KnightAndDayToile by jackie carpenter
- Picnic with Cthulhu by Jennifer Shepherd
- Circle of Friends by Jone Hallmark
- Antique Chairs by Julie Shaw
- Bird & Berry by June Jewell
- NauticalToile by kari
- A sugar house cow pasture final by Kathy Howard
- FleckchenErde Landschaft (blau) by Kati Meden
- upandaway by kim lennox
- Precious Ba by Toile by Kolleen Fortenberry
- BlueToile011010 by Kristie Hubler
- Slavery Toile by Kweli Kitwana
- toile de joy by laura wilson
- Green Floral Toile by Lesli Pepper
- floral twist by Lisa Ackermann
- Bicycle Built for Two – Toile by Liz Burritt
- short walk by loeb
- Maine Lighthouse Toile by Lori Howe
- Noir Toile by Marnie Long
- Crocus Toile by Meghan
- cattail toile by melanie hamilton
- Toile De Buddha Black by Melia Newman
- Parrot Forest Toile by Michael Uhlenkott
- garden toile 2 by Monica Meehan
- Gathering by Nalo Hopkinson
- steppes by natacha devaud
- In The Garden Marie~Antoinette by Natalie Hamade
- Toile de Toil by Pamela LaReaux
- Publiceye by Robinia Hill
- let's pretend by Rose
- toile_bouquet by Ruth Bahri
- Upton House – Dorset by Sally Ellis
- naughty modern toile by Samantha Hahn
- Toile du Iowa by Sandra Stewart
- Astrotoile2 by Sarah Claire
- giant flying squirrel attack toile by Sarah Melancon
- Bunny Toile by Shirlene Perini
- storytime toile by shout4joy
- Alice in Wonderland Toile by Star Primm
- MUSIC in the FOREST by Sue Duda
- Mother Goose blue toile by Sylvia Ion
- Coming Up Roses by Tamara Hensley
- Pastoral Piggy Toile by Tinet Elmgren
- Easter mini toile violet by Victoria Lasher
- st george red white by vo
- Donkeys, Dogs, and Letterpresses by Whitney Shaw
- Hansel und Gretel Toile Fabric by Yvonne Herbst
- two scholars meet by zoe morrow-zomo
Good luck to all!
Hi there,
Maybe it’s my machine, or maybe Firefox but when I click on the image above to get to the voting, I can’t scroll down on the window that pops up, so I can’t complete my vote! Is there another way I can do this?
Thanks. 🙂
Libby Unwin (lushop)
I am having the same problem, but using IE 7.
Same problem as above with IE7
Looks like there is an IE7 problem. We’re working with SurveyGizmo to try to resolve it. But there are no problems if you’re using Firefox.
We’ve reset the link on the blog post so that it does not open a new window, which seemed to be causing problems in both Firefox and IE. Apologies!
That was the same problem I had last week but you had two options to get to the vote; clicking on the thumbnail collection or clicking on the word “here” in the sentence below. Glad you got it fixed.
I have another question. Always before when I’ve clicked on the individual designers links in the list I’ve gone to the design page in Spoonflower. There I could look at the design more closely and also in 1 yard, which I found helpful in deciding which designs to vote on. This week I just go to a page that shows the design the same size as the contest and doesn’t allow me to switch to swatch or yard views. Is this a new set-up or is it something with my new browser? I much preferred being able to see the designs in more detail!
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Yikes! That was my mistake. Very sorry. It's fixed now — you're the first to have pointed it out.
Wow – I had a really hard time voting in this contest. So many of the designs deviated from the original description of ‘toile’ in so many different ways – “modern” toiles I guess – some with full color, some using photos rather than illustration, some with just a simple repeated design element or even abstract art, rather than a repeated scene.
But in looking back at the rules, I realized I wasn’t sure whether this was a call to design a traditional toile or to merely use that description as a jumping-off point. Either would make a great contest, but having the rules unclear (not saying “it must be scenery” or “it must look like an illustration” or “it must be 3 colors or less” – or conversely, “make it a modern toile if you wish, anything goes”) made it hard for me to decide who to vote for! I ended up voting for the more traditional toiles – just knowing what effort went into making those.
FWIW I would love it if you could recap the “rules of the game” at the top of each voting page.
Great group of designs though – thanks for putting on these contests, they’re lots of fun!
good luck to all of you designers!
just curious…when voting during the last couple of fabric contests, it appears that one could vote endless multiple times from the same computer…is this the case??? if so, does this not make the winner simply a winner by number of clicks rather than by true diverse objective opinion???
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No, we're filtering out duplicate votes on the back end. When we blocked repeat voters with cookies, it drew lots of confusion and frustration from people who accidentally left the page without voting and then couldn't get back in. So we decided that getting rid of repeat votes with a filter was probably the best approach. You can vote as many times as you like, but only the first vote gets counted.
ah..excellent!!! thank you for the response!!!