This is the seventh in our series of staff projects created for the Spoonflower Staff Quilting Challenge. Voting for this contest opens on Thursday, 3/14.
Hello from Team Craft Revolution! We are Katie, Stephanie, and Sharon.
At our first meeting I thought it would be fun to create a haiku about Spoonflower and base our quilt design on that haiku. After writing 10 or so haikus (mainly inside jokes about working at Spoonflower), there was our winner:
spoonflower is best
fabric designers unite
craft revolution
Once that was settled, we set about designing our fabric. Our haiku would be the focal point, of course. For the rest of the quilt, textures based on various crafting mediums (cross-stitching, crocheting, knitting, and quilting) would reflect our haiku inspiration. We wanted a bold color palette that included coral pink, navy blue, bright orange, and a golden yellow against a textured, neutral background.
In late January Katie showed us her initial design, which was quite amazing. Lots of different textures, layering effects, using the colors we liked.
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