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Handmade Halloween: A DIY Fish Costume That Won’t Flop | Free Pattern

There’s nothing fishy about making your kid’s Halloween costume, especially when it incorporates all of your favorite DIY elements like hot glue, felt, foam and of course, custom fabric! Sara Walk of Tell Love and Party is swimming over to the blog to share a costume that will shine amongst a sea of classroom costumes. Taking center stage for this friendly fish is our go-to fabric for costumes, Satin. Level-up your handmade Halloween game with Sara’s step-by-step tutorial and get a head start with our free PDF fish costume pattern. 

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Shark fabrics attack! [Try not to splash while voting.]

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What, you may ask, is the ideal use for shark fabric? Perhaps as a laminated fabric overlay for a surfboard? Boxer shorts? Power tie? If you figure it out and make something, by all means please post a photo of the project in the Spoonflower Flickr group. But before you get to that point, you'll have to swim with the shark fabrics and do some voting. While you're voting, try not to splash too much.

 * Vote For Shark Fabrics * 

  1. Field Guide to Sharks by glimmericks 
  2. Kawai sharks in pink waves (exercise in style) by mariao 
  3. Peril at Poker Point ( viewing issue, click to see true image) by ceanirminger 
  4. A Real Nail Biter by sammyk 
  5. A Shark Needs a Bicycle by tazmeraz 
  6. A Sharky You Can LOVE! – © PinkSodaPop 4ComputerHeaven.com by pinksodapop 
  7. against_the_stream-ch by wednesday'sgirl 
  8. Aloha! Shark by brandymiller 
  9. Along came a Shark! by jmckinniss 
  10. Aquarium Sharks though the Window by nezumiworld 
  11. Attack of the 80s Sharks by acbeilke 

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Fabulous Fishing Fabric: Announcing the latest Fabric Of the Week winner

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Cynthia Frenette of Green Couch Designs is the winner of this week's Fabric Of the Week design challenge, which was devoted to the sport of fishing. This is Cynthia's third win (her previous wins came in the Jokers & Fools contest and the last tea towel calendar contest we ran) but you may remember that  she was also a finalist in our recent Project Selvage competition. 

This was a very close contest with lots of great designs, so be sure to take a few minutes to admire the top ten!

See the Top Ten Fishng Fabrics

The final results were:

1. 482 votes for Retro Fishin' by cynthiafrenette 
2. 479 votes for Catfish in the Stream by ravenous 
3. 468 votes for Boats & Pelicans by raul 
4. 465 votes for "A la pêche" by nadja_petremand 
5. 455 votes for Bears love fish! by bora 
6. 439 votes for Lures by theboerwar 
7. 409 votes for Bait and Switch by sammyk 
8. 397 votes for fishing with worms by babysisterrae 
9. 385 votes for ChrisDickason_SeaShanties by chrisdicko 
10. 379 votes for Tackle Box by jennartdesigns 

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Who knew fishing fabrics could be so fabulous? Unlikely sport honored by textile designers

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The idea of inviting the Spoonflower design community to have a go at designing fabrics around the sport of fishing struck us as quirky fun when we came up with it as a topic a few weeks ago, but the results are actually astonishing. There are a whole school of lovely fabrics among the 204 entries in this week's contest, even if I'm not entirely sure what they'll be used to make. [Sleeping bag liners, maybe? Boxers?] This turned out to be a terrific contest, so be sure to cast a line, er… vote!

VOTE FOR FISHING FABRICS

The participants this week are:

  1. I'm a Woman,and I Hunt Fish….."FISHING can BE Pretty" by outsideartist 
  2. streamers collection by mariao 
  3. "A la pêche" by nadja_petremand 
  4. A Fish in the Pink by pond_ripple 
  5. A Fish Worth of Fish by jmariewlkr 
  6. A Fishy Fish by ninjaauntsdesigns 
  7. A Fishy Situation by robynkufaas 
  8. Against the Flow by twobloom 
  9. ahti by ruusulampi 
  10. Allureing by ourdailythread 

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Weird Fish Win! Spoonflower Fabric Of the Week Winner for Nov. 19

Weird Fishes by Leigh R - Fabric of the Week Winner

The votes are in! Congratulations go to Leigh R, whose Weird Fishes took the top spot out of all 72 of the designs submitted. [You can review the rules of the competition here.]  I think our new polling system — in which individuals could vote for as many designs as they liked, but no more than once for each — was a success. Final results are:

Thank you to everyone who participated! Your creativity astounds and inspires.

72 colorful fish on the wall… Vote for the fishy fabric of the week!

Vote for your favorite fish!

As you may remember, our Fish & Colors Fabric Of the Week contest had two guidelines: use fish as a motif and employ the restricted palette of colors described here. Well, seventy-two designers took up the challenge and we are — in a novel twist on our usual contest procedures — offering up ALL of the fabrics in a mega-vote-apalooza this week. You can vote for as many or as few fabrics as you like. At the end of voting (on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 6pm EST), the design with the most votes will win. Just to make it even more of a free-for-all, we won't be showing results for the contest as they come in. So you'll have to wait  until next week to find out the winner.

Also of note, the poll consists of three pages this week that are served up in random order from visitor to visitor. The designs on each page are also randomized per visitor. That will keep any single group of designs from being hobbled due to bad placement.

You can only vote once, and you can do it here.

The contestants this week are:

  1. Psychedelic Fish by Norman Sherfield
  2. Fish Fry by Adriana Hernandez
  3. Fishies by Aimee Elisabeth
  4. gonefishin by bandanna
  5. Paisley Fish by beckarahn
  6. HalibuTartan by b_mac_b
  7. sf-frilly-fish-w-black by beena_singhal
  8. spoonflowerfishcarmen by ohcarmie
  9. fishiesunderthesea by carey_perez
  10. 'Koi + Lotus' by monkeybutt
  11. Aqua School by gottacre8!
  12. mermaid10 by connielou
  13. fish with hands and feet 2 by humpty
  14. cocofish by corentine
  15. Goldfish_Bubbles by outofthebox
  16. Fish Scales by halahblue
  17. vll_fish_2-ch by victorialasher
  18. FishSpoonflower by edubgraphicart
  19. FishFuillard by edzellinni
  20. fish by moonbeam
  21. Fishy_Wishes by Lisa Rene Anderson
  22. betabowls4color by elisabeth
  23. SHARKS__6X10 by eliza
  24. Koi Blossom by Julie Shaw
  25. Swim against the stream by Yvonne Herbst
  26. FishBones by Lisa Dawson
  27. 4-color-bloop-a-rama by Joan De Lurio
  28. coralfish by hadley hutton
  29. Goldfish a la William Morris by Gretchen Little
  30. fishes by Debec
  31. fishtails2 by elizabeth Mckenzie
  32. whimsical_fish_1d by vicki jenkins
  33. fishsoup by Stefanie von Hoesslin
  34. fourfishes_2_2 by Linn Bodur
  35. fish fabric by James McCullough
  36. fishsoup by Jane Crowe
  37. Fish Mirrored Circles by Susan Mentrak
  38. swimmy by Kate Austin
  39. Blinking Outside The Bag by Kim Niles
  40. fish-napkin-design by katy keuter
  41. fish bone plate by Kweli Kitwana
  42. Fun Fish Circles and Stars … by Kris K
  43. ed fish, blue fish, yellow…' by Lori Howe
  44. blue fish by Laura L. Greaves
  45. Weird Fishes by Leigh
  46. Funky_80s_Fish by Sandra Stewart
  47. Jellyfish Peek-a-boo by Marilyn Patrizio
  48. fishies – contest by Monica Meehan
  49. Hello_Fishy by Cathy McLeod
  50. Ocean View by Patty McNally
  51. Ocean View by Noah
  52. Matryoshka Fish Kaleidoscope by Wee Folk Art
  53. FishFishFish by Annelie Hervi
  54. koi joy by Star Primm
  55. CoralWaterTurquoiseFish by Michele Ouellet
  56. fish by Lara
  57. Fish Are Nice by Mary Brewer
  58. trio_fish by Samantha Cheung
  59. SF_FishContest_B_11-2-09 by Sarah Nussbaumer
  60. here_fishy_fishy by Joy Lamphere
  61. jpk_fishy by Melissa Ditalo
  62. Tiger_Fish by Alex Morgan
  63. JellyFish by Tamara Hensley
  64. Koi_bw by Daniela Caine
  65. fish shoal by Tanja Loeser
  66. fish by Tina Rose
  67. fish_pattern by Connie Lim
  68. Fish Town by Jolene Forcier
  69. Disgruntled Fish Pattern by Linda Tieu
  70. Swimmin' with the fishes by Vanessa
  71. Octopus Black by Laura Wilson
  72. reef_fish by Angela McGrew

Go vote.

Fabric Of the Week: Fish & Colors Theme – deadline Nov. 2

Fish-contest-example When I posted about the upcoming Fabric Of the Week theme in our email last week, I made two mistakes:

1) The deadline for submitting your design is Monday, November 2, 2009 at noon, EST — NOT November 5th, as I wrote in the email.

2) In addition to the prescribed palette of colors, I wrote initially that you could use only white. Upon further consideration, we decided that white AND black are both ok to use. Apologies for the late modification!

You can read more about the rules for entry and find the form to submit your Spoonflower design for the contest here. 

Due to widespread dissatisfaction with the voting methods used in recent semifinal rounds,  the upcoming voting this week will allow you to vote for as many — or as few — finalist candidates as you like in our doll panel design contest. So stay tuned!