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Craft fabric in Spoonflower Etsy shop

Spoonflower_craftfabric_sam The kind folk over at Craft magazine gave a shout out to Spoonflower today because we printed up Samantha Hahn’s excellent design for their Maker Faire tablecloth.  Woo-hoo!  I do love Craft for the spectrum of ideas they offer to us making types, and if you do, too, perhaps you’ll want to pick up a yard of Samantha’s design in our Etsy shop.  I just wish I could see it–not to mention the Craft staff! and all the crafty families! and all you makers of handmade stuff at your tables!–in person at Maker Faire.  There’s always next year, though.  Right, Stephen?  Right.

Toddler hat by Lisa.littlek


Toddler hat, side view
Originally uploaded by lisa.littlek

Have you all seen Lisa.littlek's adorable, scrappy toddler sun hat in our Flickr pool today? It caught my eye right away because I've been experiencing a fair amount of sun hat envy while making the outside rounds with my daughters lately. At the pool yesterday, an excellent gray linen hat with a row of white shell buttons around it. At Locopops, our local popsicle store, the perfect straw hat with a brim not too wide and not too floppy. Part of it is that there are a lot of Japanese women living in our neighborhood here in Chapel Hill, and I swear that they all seem to know secret, cool sources of amazing, casual, interestingly stitched sun hats. Anyone know of any good sun hat patterns or tutorials out there? If you do, please leave a link in the comments!

Having your fish and eating it, too

Martha fish print t-shirt You could "generously ink" a fish in order to make a fish-printed garment like this one from Martha Stewart.  Or you could save your fish for the grill and just Spoonflower!  I'm just sayin'….

Filed Under: DIY

Fabric of the week: CurlyQ

Fabric of the week winner for 5-22-2009
Congratulations to Katidids for winning this week's Spoonflower fabric of the week poll with CurlyQ. You can buy her lovely design in the Spoonflower Etsy store until next Thursday.

Final voting results were:

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Vote on next week's design:

Fabric of the Week Contest designs, week of 5-22-2009
We've got another great lineup of designs from our (long) list of entries, but only one will make it into our store next week as a limited edition fabric. Vote now for your favorite.

The brave designers are:

Voting closes next Thursday. You can also review the rules for entry, or check out the current vote count in real time.

Miss Emma Ruth halter top


I don't know about you all, but I'm obsessed with summery halter top patterns lately. In NC, we're already getting 85 degree days sprinkled in amongst our otherwise springy weeks, so I know that beach and pool season are just around the corner!

When I saw Missemmaruth's halter top in our Flickr pool this morning, I couldn't suppress a squeal. I love it! It's made from Spoonflower printed fabric designed by Imakethings and based on a free pattern offered by IchiGoGirl through Burdastyle.  Super flattering, isn't it?  Must go do some downloading and printing now….

Fine and dandy. Congratulations to Night Garden Design!

Fabric of the week, 5/11/2009
Dandyflat — by Amelia of Night Garden Design in Springfield, Oregon — is the latest Spoonflower fabric of the week.  Get the fabric for a limited time only in the Spoonflower Etsy shop. The final tally from last week was decisive:

Check out Amelia's other items on Etsy.
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Six new designs for voting, including more frogs!

Spoonflower contest fabrics for 5-11-2009
Designs this competing this week are (clockwise from the top left):

Cast your vote now (voting closes next Sunday), review the rules for entry, or check out the current vote count in real time.

Thanks to everyone for participating!

Closest Contest Ever + Six New Designs!

Vote for the next fabric of the week from six terrific new designs:

Vote for your favorite Contest design for week of 4-25

Above, we see (from left to right on each row):

Vote for your favorite.

Follow the results in real time here. Review the weekly contest rules and/or enter your own design here.
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My new pear dress

New Look 6586I seldom have time for cranking out the sewing projects these days with Spoonflower, young'uns, and gardening season taking up nearly every second of free time in my day.  So it is with great relief–and perhaps a bit of surprise that it really is done–that I show you all my new Lollychops pear dress, finished at last!  As Lolly herself well knows from the gushy email I sent her when I first laid eyes on her printed pears, I love this design and was delighted to be able to own some myself when it won the fabric-of-the-week contest a few weeks back.  I've made a few little girl dresses from Spoonflower fabric, but these pears were for me!

For the clothing sewers among you, this was made from New Look 6586, and my review of this pattern is here.

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Birdie Friends Wins + Six New Designs

Contest fabrics, week of 4/20/2009

Vote For the Next Spoonflower Fabric Of The Week!

Help choose the next fabric of the week! Six new designs are in the running this week from six new designers (although one of them we've linked to many times before). They are (above going clockwise from the upper left):

Follow the results in real time here. Review the weekly contest rules and/or enter your own design here.
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Congratulations to Craft Pudding!

Winner! Spoonflower fabric-of-the-week for 4/20/2009
Birdie friends" ran away with the voting last week, thus making it now the official Spoonflower fabric of the week. Be sure to check out Craft Pudding's blog and Etsy store for more of her work, but you can also purchase birdie friends as a limited edition for the next six days in the Spoonflower Etsy shop.

The final voting from last week left us with: