doll panels

Ready to vote again? Doll Panels, Round 2

October 29, 2009

Just a few of the 37 entries this week are pictured here

Ok, after some good feedback on a flawed voting process last week, we've decided to experiment with the way we handle voting during weeks when we hold semifinal rounds. Instead of having to choose a single favorite design per page, you can vote for as many — or as few — as you want. This week we've spread 37 designs over three pages, and on each page you can 'check' all the designs you really like and then move on to the next page. The vote totals will obviously be much higher, but everyone will get a chance to vote for designs they like without being forced to skip over one excellent design in favor of a slightly more excellent one. That's what the finals are for, right? We still plan to take the top five designs in the voting and run them against the top five from last week for the final round. Vote here.

The contestants in round two of our doll panel-themed fabric of the week contest are:

Heidi Crawford dollpanel
Rochelle Hughes nancy_ann_drawing
Stephanie Faith This Doll Loves
Kim Niles Christmas Westie Doll Panels
mel latthitham bright owl
Tina Rose annabelle_doll
Jane Pierce aka zJayne Galley Girl
Chelsee Gobin What a Doll ! – Happy/Sad
Michelle @ Wee Folk Art weefolkart-gnome-dolls-four-colors
Jean img056
vo monkey_doll_all_tealsharpened
kismutt Little Geisha Girls
blueberryblonde Nurse Berry
Carrie Kirby Clementine thinking
connie kaiser Gingerbread Doll
susalabim doll_panel
Kim Timothy Nesting Dolls
Joan De Lurio stuffed vegetables: roots
Mochi Studios Ninja Beans Panel
Emily Hawke astronaut
Gretchen Schroeder Baby Saguaros
Kathy fronczak Gnome_for_the_Holidays_Dolls
jackie the weebotts
TurquoiseCro Pink Rose
Cate Anevski The Pact Doll Panel
melanie hamilton catrinaFatQuarter
Dawn Huntington ChristmasBoggie
Jordan Perme wonderland_flip_doll
Star Primm audrey_and_pippin
Uptown_girl Winter Dolly
Katy Tanis Teddy Bears of the World
Sarah Nussbaumer Cats in pajamas
Rosanna Bernstein Jazzy Jasmine Dolly from Japan
emily ready for play
kari DollPattern
Aliza Rich Doll Poor Doll
smilerecipe Kawaii Kokeshi

Good luck to all!

The top five vote-getters from last week, by the way, are listed below. These five doll panel designs will appear again next week in the final voting.

Jessee Maloney 'Robot Dolls'
apoo 4 little gnomes
Renule 'Dollpanel_triorio1'
Sylvia Ion Humpty_Shelf_Sitter
Gila von Meissner 14"/ 35cm Kawaii Kokeshi Dolls

And for those of you who pulling together costumes this weekend for yourselves or your little ones, have a happy Halloween.

Fabric Of the Week: Vote for your favorite doll panels (round 1)

October 22, 2009

Once again we were blown away by all the responses to this week’s contest theme. With 77 entries in the Doll Panel contest, once again we’ll be breaking the contest into two weeks of semifinal voting with a third week for the finals.

Week one has thirty-nine designs, spread out over four pages in the voting. You can vote for up to one design per page (although a vote on each page is not required) by clicking on the design you like best (a green check mark appears on the image when you select it). We’ll take the top five designs from this week and the top five from next week and run them the week after — with photos — in the final round. [note: I originally wrote to the participating designers that we’d take the top fifteen designs, but we’ve since decided just to run ten finalists]

There’s one other point that may deserve explanation. As you look
through the entries you will notice that not everyone interpreted the
idea of ‘doll panels’ the same way. That’s our fault, really, because
we failed to set out a technical definition of ‘doll panels’ in our entry
form. As usual, we’ve accepted all of the entries regardless and we’ll
leave it to the crafty Spoonflower community to decide which approach
to ‘doll panels’ it most favors.

VOTE HERE. The participants in week 1 are:

Beth Parker Obama Doll

Joysmom ‘dozen_faces’

Rochelle Fugate Birthday Girl

Joanne C. Harper Saint Nick in Green

Diana Symes dolls

Julie Shaw Curlicue Girl

Kweli Kitwana MyAffirmDoll

Renule ‘Dollpanel_triorio1’

Marie Eiriksson pigeboldlillagul

Sylvia Ion Humpty_Shelf_Sitter

Kelly Grooters monster_dolls

jennifer borrell anderson out of doors girls

peggy gatto 2_copy

katy keuter nesting-dolls

Cathy Comora ‘The_Ta_Ta_Dolls’

Jessee Maloney ‘Robot Dolls’

Laura Wilson Build Paint Bake Sew Dolls

Kelli Perkins perkinsdolls

Crittie M. Gay Sassy Dolls

Annelie Hervi Dollpanels

Lisa Rene Anderson Spoonflower_doll_panel_LRA

Cathy Bullington vudo2

Leigh Forest Sprites (Mini Dolls)

Shala Kerrigan Flower Kokeshi Dolls

Lynn Baron twobloomfairy

Stacy Campbell-Kraft Darla_the_doll

Leanna Maksymiuk gnome_grey

Linn Bodur doll1

Valorie Wilson steampunkdoll

Jen Addotta matroyshka_nesting_dolls

apoo 4 little gnomes

Gila von Meissner 4″/ 35cm Kawaii Kokeshi Dolls

Elizabeth McKenzie vincent van gogh …departed artist doll

Ginette Callaway Beauty Large

Linda Tieu Singing Doll Boy Panel

Katie Bailey Kawaii Kokeshi

Lindsay Nightingale The Extra’s

Karen cox Northern Light Dreams

Sharyl Chow Sailor Kitty

Two New Themed Fabric Design Contests: Numbers and Doll Panels

October 1, 2009

Because themed Fabric Of the Week contests are turning out to be so much fun, we're going to keep running with the idea for a while longer. Pulling from some of the stellar suggestions we received when we posted about themes a couple of weeks ago, we've got two new contest themes to announce, the first on a short turnaround and the second on a longer time frame so you have a chance to gather your creative wits. They are:

Numbers. Simple enough, right? Design a fabric using numbers. Deadline is this Monday, October 5, at noon EST. Entry form and details are here.

Doll Panels. One of the coolest uses of digital textile printing is to create dolls and other plush toys. At Spoonflower we get to see people doing cool stuff along these lines all the time. So the next contest theme — with a longer time frame for entry — is dolls. Deadline is Monday, October 19, at noon, EST. Entry form and details are here. [for an example, see the talented Jennifer Vallez of Sophie and Lili.]