Product Info & Updates

Today, we're thrilled to announce the launch of a our new Peel and Stick Wallpaper, Woven. It’s an opaque white, 100% polyester fabric with an adhesive backing. Available by the linear foot, it is removable and repositionable, making it great for covering walls and a wide array of craft and decorating projects. Peel and Stick is easy to cut, customize, and install onto any smooth surface, making it perfect for accent walls, cut and stick decals, and quick decor updates. And, the material is eco-friendly—formaldehyde-, phthalate-,and PVC-free—making it ideal for nurseries and kid’s rooms.

Spoonflower partner Allison made quick work of transforming her living room built in bookshelves with the new Peel and Stick Wallpaper. Read about her project and get tips working with the new woven wallpaper for your own DIYs! 

Allison: Transforming my living space is such a rush for me.  I love the creative expression that it provides, so I am always on the hunt for my next project.  After reading the July 2013 issue of Dwell that featured Orla Kiely’s home, I felt inspired to add a little more pattern and texture to my living room. I wanted to find a way to bring pattern to my wood surfaces that did not require water or paste and was eco-friendly. With the launch of Spoonflower’s Peel and Stick Woven wallpaper, I finally found my vehicle.

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Eco Canvas Beach Tote in Pink Stache by Whimsiekim and Big Dots Teal by Ravynka

For years people have asked us for a sturdy fabric made from recycled materials, so it is with great excitement that today we announce the launch of Eco Canvas, a beautiful new material perfect for projects like recovering cushions or making canvas totes. This durable polyester canvas  – made using 45% recycled content — features a soft hand, and bright, custom-printed color that holds up well to wear and laundering.

Eco Canvas has a 54” printable width and is perfect for home dec and upholstery, backpacks, storage bins, plushies, play mats, kids shoes, jackets and loads of other projects.

You’ll find Eco Canvas available for order starting today. Try out a swatch to see how it feels or if you’ve already got a project in mind, go ahead and order enough to get started. Be sure to check out more photos of the new fabric!

Eco Canvas Backpack in Sashiko: Kakuju-Tsunagi – Connected Angles by Bonnie Phantasm 

Eco Canvas Playmat Design: The Way to Nanna's by Wiccked

Recently I became a volunteer at my local animal shelter—Orange County Animal Services. It’s a wonderful facility that is clean and modern, but it’s still a shelter: there are a lot of dogs there that need a loving home (and will convince you with kisses how sweet they are!).

 In the past I’ve made several bandanas for my dog, Albatross, to wear (in order to raise her cuteness rating!), and I realized a sweet bandana might be just the thing to help some of the shelter dogs get adopted.

Adopted from a shelter herself, Albatross models the first bandana to help me with sizing

Because I wanted to use a fabric that would be both eye-catching with bright colors and wash and wear well, printing on Silky Faille was the perfect choice. For subtle branding, I took the colors from the Orange County, NC seal and created a design that would look great on any dog, no matter if they were white, tan or black.

Using Illustrator, I created a single image and exported it as a PNG. Once I uploaded my design, I chose the "half-drop" repeat to get some variation in the pattern.

To stitch up the bandanas, I used a fantastic tutorial from the blog Gleeful Things. I love Julie’s post because it was very easy and I could adjust the size for all different dogs—from chihuahuas to great danes! One quick tip if you choose to use this tutorial: topstitch another seam to create a tube for the collar, so it stays put on energetic canines!

  Princess loved dressing up for our field trip!

The dogs are loving their bandanas—they make them look like little superheroes! They have been wearing them both at the shelter and on outreach field trips, like the one we took this Saturday to Woofgang Bakery in Chapel Hill.

Diesel strikes a pose with Woofgang Bakery owner, Mina

They looked super cute and dressed up with their neckerchiefs and when we walked by a group of people, everyone immediately knew they were available to be adopted and would stop and chat with us.

Volunteers Lisa and Jim take a stroll with Teddy and Diesel.

To further assist the dogs in finding their forever homes, all proceeds from the sale of this design will go directly to sponsoring dog adoptions at OCAS.

Franklin was very happy to be out and about!

Making these bandanas is a very simple way for both shelters and rescue groups to make a big impact and give their pups some pizzaz with a subtle message! Why not get together with a group of friends and whip these up this weekend?

About Our Guest Blogger

Caroline works formally as the graphic designer for Spoonflower and in a freelance capacity for her firm, Brains Are Pretty. Besides volunteering at her local shelter, she is also an avid chef, likes to take boxing classes and is an amateur dog trainer. Check out some of Caroline's other surface designs in her Spoonflower shop.

We're excited to introduce a sporty new fabric called Performance Piqué. Just in time to sew a golf shirt for Father's Day, or whip up a stylish running top for your summer fitness routine! 

Design: Mod Tree Orange by Paper Pie

Performance Piquè is a soft, 100% polyester fabric with a fine diamond-like knit structure, perfect for projects that require a comfortable, breathable, fabric with a nice drape. Wicking properties and a soil release finish make this fabric the best choice for athletic apparel, like beach wraps, running tanks, yoga tops and more! Read on for sewing tips (plus more great pictures of Piquè projects!)

[Read more…] about Announcing Performance Piquè

We're thrilled to announce the arrival of our new fabric, Faux Suede. The first suede we've offered, this fabric is perfect for upholstery and opens up a new world of possibility for custom DIY home dec projects. We whipped up these ottomans to show off just a slice of what this new fabric can do. Check 'em out. 

Spoonflower team member Kate worked alongside designer Samarra Khaja (SammyK on Spoonflower) to create this amazing modular stacking ottoman set with our brand new uphostery-worthy Faux Suede! 

Samarra created a two-yard design that features totem-inspired faces and striped coordinate squares, which Kate used to reupholster inexpensive ottoman cubes in our new Faux Suede for a quirky and colorful addition to the Spoonflower office.

If you're inspired to design your own unique ottoman, or if you'd like to DIY a stack of cubes with Samarra's Totem Faces fabric, check out Kate's Faux Suede sewing tips, and a little info on how she made her masterpiece below.

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Friends,

As you may have heard, Spoonflower's home state of North Carolina is buried under several inches of snow and ice at the moment, which has brought our little fabric factory temporarily to a grinding halt. As a result, we are postponing the Free Swatch Day that we had planned to run today and tomorrow (Feb. 13-14) for our new fabric, Modern Jersey. We will reschedule a new Free Swatch Day once we dig ourselves out. We'll go ahead and make the new fabric available today, but — with apologies — we're going to ask you to be patient and wait for your free swatches.

Thank you for understanding!

-The Spoonflower Crew

Today we rolled out a new feature that will allow designers to order swatch samplers on all 12 of our Spoonflower fabrics! Ordering a sampler is a great way to test your designs and get them ready for the Spoonflower marketplace, while saving some cash. 

How to order a swatch sampler: 

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