Before you get started, you’ll need to get familiar with Collections. Simply add your own designs or others’ designs to a collection by clicking the folder icon on any design page and follow our step-by-step tutorial.
Option 1: Fill-A-Yard® Cheater Quilt Template
Or skip ahead to Option 2: Swatch Samplers
The perfect choice for:
- Proofing many designs at one time for a low price.
- Sampling designs that are either your own or from other designers.
- Turning your samples into a finished project easily.
If you want to proof your own designs or see how your favorite designs around the Marketplace will look together, choose our Fill-A-Yard Cheater Quilt Template, which gives you the best bang for your buck. Since these squares are 6 x 6”, you can sample up to 42 designs on our 1-yard cheater quilt for as low as $17.50–that’s just 42¢ per design! If you’d like to make your designs available for sale, you can also use this to proof multiple designs at once.
How to Create a Fill-A-Yard Project:
- Find or create a collection to begin. To fill a template with multiple designs, the designs must first be added to the same collection. Create a collection of designs you love or start with one you’ve already curated. Get a head start with collections curated by the community.
- Choose a basic yard or Fill-A-Project® template. The 1-yard cheater quilt template lets you add up to 42 designs.
- Apply the designs you’ve collected to the template you chose. Arrange them in any way you like with just a few clicks.
Hint: You don’t have to fill every square with a different design! Simply apply one design to several contiguous squares to see more of the pattern.
Give Fill-A-Yard a try with these DIY projects!
1. Aprons for the entire family | 2. Dog Bandanas | 3. DIY Sleep Masks
Option 2: Swatch Sampler
The perfect choice for:
- Proofing a smaller number of your own designs at one time.
- Sampling designs on a specific fabric not available in the quilt template above.
- Getting full-size 8″ swatches for as low as $1.17 each.
- Pricing
- 1-5 designs start at $12.00
- 6-15 designs start at $20.00
- 16-30 designs start at $35.00
If you’re creating your own designs and want to see how they look for your business or before making them available for sale on Spoonflower, this is a great way to get started in smaller batches. Our Swatch Sampler gives you a chance to see 8 x 8” test swatches of your designs on any one of our 20+ fabrics for as low as $12 for five designs.
How to Create a Swatch Sampler
- Navigate to your Collections by clicking on Design Library and selecting collections on the left side of the page.
- Select the collection you want a sampler of.
- Click the Get a Sampler button on the upper right corner of the page.
- Confirm the designs. To see how each design will print, click the design thumbnail and select test swatch in the size and amount drop-down on the design page.
- Select the fabric you want your sampler printed on.
- Order a fabric sampler.
What are you waiting for? Upload your next batch of designs to start saving!
This is fantastic and super helpful! As a designer, this helps not only with saving money but how to plan collections a little more efficiently. Thank you!!!