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The Crayon Designs We Can’t Get Enough Of

August 26, 2016

Give a big round of applause to Kelly aka Weavingmajor, whose Rainbow Crayon Waves design was chosen as this week’s Plum Print top pick. Kelly will receive a shower curtain custom printed with her winning design, courtesy of Plum Print. September’s prompts were just announced, so be sure to join in on Weekly Prompts to come and find out what great prizes you could win for participating! We’ve rounded up a few of our own favorites from last week’s tagged Crayon designs below. Check them out and see all of the submitted designs here.

Rainbow Crayon Waves | Weavingmajor

This week’s Fabric Of the Week winner wields a mean crayon

June 16, 2011

This design by Janet Nimiroski, a freelance textile designer from Rhode Island, took the most votes in our contest to create, using crayons, a pattern to sew 18" cloth napkins. As lovely as this one turned out, the other designs in the top ten are also lots of fun to admire. If I ever get around to posting it, I've even got a fun video showing some napkins we made here at the office using crayons. The photo shows Janet's design printed on a fat quarter of linen-cotton.

See the Top Ten Crayon Napkin Patterns

The full results:

1. 961 votes for Crayon Garden by beebumble
2. 794 votes for Crazy Feet Napkin by kayajoy
3. 689 votes for Fantastical Floral Serviette by sammyk
4. 669 votes for Crayon Birds by annadriel
5. 588 votes for Everywhere Silverware by annosch
6. 539 votes for Abstract Swirlique napkin by edsel2084
7. 512 votes for All the colors in the box by haleystudio
8. 501 votes for Squares in Square by westofthemoon
9. 477 votes for Spring floral napkin/pillow kit by virginiao*aka*vo
10. 458 votes for dandynapkin by caresa

Crayon Cloth Napkin Design Contest: Vote for your favorites!

June 9, 2011

We asked designers this week to use wax crayons and a scanner to create centered patterns that can be printed and hemmed to make cloth napkins. You'll see that the sizing in these entries is a bit all over the place, but we decided not to exclude any because they weren't exactly 18-inch squares. We did, however, pull out designs that were not set up to be intact napkin patterns that could be cut & sewn individually. There were some terrific crayon-drawn fabric designs that we removed because they were set up to repeat and thus did not quite fit the guideline for creating a napkin pattern. Nevertheless, our contest this week includes some designs that would not only be great as napkin sets, but might work even better for accent pillow covers. This is a fun contest and also serves as a great way to try your hand at designing fabric for the first time.

Vote For Your Favorite Crayon Napkin Patterns

The participants this week are:

Vote for your favorite fabric design created using Crayons!

January 21, 2010

Did you think textile design was just for people who know how to use Photoshop and Illustrator? I hope not!

This week you can choose your favorite fabrics from 58 terrific designs drawn using Crayons. Vote here.

Participating designers are:

It's not in the contest because she withdrew the design (not technically drawn with Crayons), but be sure to check out Rebecca Cook's fun design Weedsack Flowers design. Good luck to the designers!

Crayon fabric design contest deadline Monday. Upcoming contest: Childrens’ Prints

January 16, 2010

Upcoming Fabric Of the Week contest themes:

Crayons: Fabric designs created using wax crayons and digitized using a scanner or digital camera. Deadline is Monday, January 18, at noon EST.

Childrens' Prints: Prints good for using in children's clothes. Deadline is Monday, January 25, at noon EST.

Entry forms and rules for the contests can be found here.

Reminder: Entry for Toile contest closes Monday. Upcoming fabric design theme: Crayons

January 10, 2010

Toile. The deadline for submitting a design to our toile de jouy themed Fabric Of the Week contest is tomorrow (Monday, January 11) at noon, EST. The entry form is HERE.

Details on the contest, including the rules & terms, can be viewed HERE.