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Winners! Home Is Where the Heart Is

October 20, 2016

“House and Foxes Tea Towel” by Jill_O_Connor is the winner of our Home Is Where the Heart Is design challenge

“House and Foxes Tea Towel” by Jill_O_Connor shown on a Linen Cotton Orpington Tea Towel from Roostery

Big congrats to Jill O’ Connor, the grand prize winner of our “Home is Where the Heart Is” tea towel challenge! Jill will receive $469 in Spoonflower credit. The rest of the top ten winners will receive one custom Orpington tea towel in their own winning design from Roostery ($17 value). Designs voted into the top 11-25 will be automatically be proofed and made available for sale in the Spoonflower Marketplace ($5 value). See all of the top 25 winners here, and then go vote for next week’s design challenge, 2017 Tea Towel Calendars!

1. 224 votes for House and Foxes Tea Towel by jill_o_connor
2. 195 votes for Home is Where the Heart is by cynthiafrenette
3. 187 votes for home-heart by gaiamarfurt
4. 144 votes for Welcome Home Love by vo_aka_virginiao
5. 141 votes for Never Mind How Far I Roam by gypsymothdesign
6. 137 votes for Home is where the purrs are! by amel24
7. 136 votes for The Heart of Home (Tea Towel) by brendazapotosky
8. 129 votes for ‘Home is where my heart is’ Tea Towel by nouveau_bohemian
9. 124 votes for Home is where the heart is by cjldesigns
10. 121 votes for cats at home 2017 tea towel calendar by ottomanbrim
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Creating a Cozy Home Vibe for Winter Crafting

February 10, 2016

The Danes call it "hygge." I call it "cozing in." Spoonflower crew member Jenny here to discuss how to curate your home into a warm and relaxing place for evenings of winter crafting, gathering with friends, or escaping into a good read.

Curating a relaxing "nest" is the key to getting the most out of the shorter days and colder nights. During winter, I have a tendency to "coze in" by drinking lots of tea (and hot toddies), layering blankets on couches and chairs, and getting into a nightly ritual of lighting candles. We all "coze in"–it's just a matter of how we go about it. Make these simple changes to your space when you feel like spending your next evening-in this winter!

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Announcing the Décor Map of America –– Based on Purchases by Spoonflower Customers

November 25, 2015

DURHAM, NC, Nov. 25 – A ground-breaking new “Décor map of America” pinpoints the best U.S. city to live for fans of each of 19 different design styles – from paisley to polka-dots, Victorian to mid-century modern, and Aztec to Native American.

It reflects data from nearly 200,000 purchases on the website Spoonflower (www.spoonflower.com), which lets customers design and have printed their own fabric, wallpaper and gift-wrap.

“Our map provides a unique insight into the décor tastes of America and the psyche of its cities,” says Stephen Fraser, co-founder of Spoonflower. “It also pioneers an entire new field of what we’re calling ‘décor geography’."

Spoonflower designates as the “capital” of each design style the city where a higher share of customers than anywhere else have purchased that style.

The findings of its study confirm some expectations, while confounding others.

New York, for example, is capital of checkered designs – as in the black and white checks that adorned New York’s checker taxi-cabs for so long that they seem to have pierced the city’s subconscious.

Announcing the Décor Map of America –– Based on Purchases by Spoonflower Customers

November 12, 2015

DURHAM, NC, Nov. 16 – A ground-breaking new “Décor map of America” pinpoints the best U.S. city to live for fans of each of 19 different design styles – from paisley to polka-dots, Victorian to mid-century modern, and Aztec to Native American.

It reflects data from nearly 200,000 purchases on the website Spoonflower (www.spoonflower.com), which lets customers design and have printed their own fabric, wallpaper and gift-wrap.

DIY Fabric Wall Organizer

September 22, 2015

Fall is on our minds here at Spoonflower HQ and the changing season is the perfect excuse to do a little organizing and cleaning. Our sewing spaces can always use a good purge and straightening up, and who doesn’t love something beautiful to help get the job done!? Our friend and neighbor Sara, creative author of Radiant Home Studio, visits the blog to share a simple sewing tutorial for creating a fabric wall organizer.

I love decorating my home with handmade accents. It makes my house feel more cozy and adds pops of color in unexpected places. Today, I’ll show you how to make this simple hanging wall organizer using 4 coordinating fabrics.

The pockets are designed to hold standard size file folders. You can use it in the kitchen to organize mail, the craft room to organize supplies, or the kids’ room to organize toys. It’s versatile enough to work anywhere in the house!

How to Install Woven Peel & Stick Wallpaper and Smooth Wallpaper

June 30, 2015

Excited to install your new Spoonflower wallpaper but not quite sure where to start? Join the Spoonflower help team today as they show you a step-by-step process to installing both our Woven and Smooth wallpaper!

Installing Woven Peel & Stick Wallpaper:

Wallpaper design: hexo by nouveau_bohemian

Please note our Woven wallpaper is not recommended for use on even slightly textured walls. For children’s rooms, we recommend buying our Smooth wallpaper.

Installing Smooth Wallpaper:

Wallpaper design: sun moon stars by andrea_lauren

Have you used either, or both, of our wallpapers in a project? Please share what you’ve created or updated with Smooth or Peel & Stick wallpaper in the comments below!

Pantry-organizing, Recipe-saving Kitchen Stickers!

June 27, 2015

Today we've got a tutorial for a simple solution to kitchen conversion and recipe recall woes. Sometimes all you need is a simple reminder to keep your kitchen tasks moving along efficiently. Spoonflower friend Gina Sekelsky stops by the blog to explain how to design your own recipe stickers and conversion chart stickers (in your own handwriting!), get them digitally printed with Spoonflower, and installed in your kitchen cabinets in no time!

I love to cook and bake, but I seem to always forget a few simple conversions: Is it 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon or 3 tablespoons to a quarter cup? I decided to put some things I’m forever looking up inside of my kitchen cupboards: a few beloved recipes, a list of our favorite meals, and this conversion chart. Originally I was going to paint them all right on the cabinet door, but stickers will let me change my mind more often. And since they’re reusable, I could even give the conversion chart to a friend if I ever start remembering without it!

Since I work as a hand-lettering artist, I go through a lot of paper and pens. My favorite paper to write on is Hammermill Laser Print—it’s bright white, super-smooth, and opaque. I have many different pens for writing and drawing, but for most simple projects I use the Uniball Vision Exact in the micro size (black ink is my favorite). Find a pen that feels comfortable to you, even if you have to try a dozen different brands, styles, or sizes to get just the right one. Once you’ve got your basic supplies, you can get started creating your design.

Reinvention Book and Spoonflower Fabric Giveaway

January 23, 2013

We've had a wonderful book sitting on our shelves for a little while now at the Spoonflower office, Maya Donenfeld's Reinvention: Sewing With Rescued Materials. With chapters organized by the type of material you might be repurposing–linen, burlap, t-shirt jersey, wool, denim, Tyvek mailers, vintage textiles–this book isn't exactly in keeping with Spoonflower's purpose of printing new fabrics. But the book is so lovely and so inspiring to us in our personal sewing projects–and January is our month to revamp and refresh–that we couldn't resist offering it up to you for giveaway today. To sweeten the deal, we'll also throw in three yards of the Spoonflower fabric of your choice. Give the new fabric its first purpose, then you can use the book to give your fabric another life down the road. Follow the link below to enter our drawing for this giveaway. Entries close next Tuesday, 1/29 and we'll announce the winner on 1/30. Good luck to you all!

Last week, we gave away Red Velvet's e-course about how to "Style Your Space," and the winner was Ruth Duff. Congratulations, Ruth, and we'll be in contact with you soon!

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Red Velvet’s “Style Your Space” e-course giveaway

January 16, 2013

Today we're really pleased to be offering an e-course that is sure to prove helpful and inspiring if, like me, you've been in the throes of a big ol' furniture rearranging project at home. Red Velvet's "Style Your Space" e-course contains multiple sessions that you can complete at your own pace and includes sneak peeks into others' homes, resources for finding good stuff, rules to follow and rules to break, and how to begin layering items into your space, among many other topics.

If you're interested in jump starting your home-redecorating projects and want to be entered into our drawing to win this exciting e-course, just follow the link below to our entry form. Entries will close next Tuesday, 1/22 and we'll announce the winner on 1/23. Good luck, happy homebodies!

Last week, we gave away another inspirational resource to aid in your home-sprucing projects, a copy of Young House Love, and the winner was Julie Phiffer. Congratulations, Julie, and we'll be in touch with you shortly!

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January Refresh: Allie’s Desk Transformation

January 11, 2013

Continuing our January project series to show our spaces a little love and create treasures from worn or plain pieces in our homes, Spoonflower staff member Allie Tate transforms her childhood French provincial desk into a fresh work station ready for new creative projects!

Growing up my two sisters and I all had matching French provincial bedroom sets. I had kept mine through the years and love it, but it needed some serious updating. Having been through my childhood and too many to moves to count through college and life after, my poor furniture had certainly seen better days.

A fresh coat of paint, some decals, and fabric to recover the chair cushion and it would be good as new! Choosing the right decals and fabric was the hardest part of the whole process, and I went with two longtime favorites, CandyPenny’s Woodtype Alphabet decal design and Wolfie and the Sneak’s Kristen fabric.

To start the project, I removed the hardware and sanded the desk. Since it was already a light color, I choose paint of similar color that contained primer and was able to skip an extra coat of paint.

With the help of a paint spray gun, it was super easy to achieve a smooth, even coat of paint in an amazingly short amount of time!

I chose to update the hardware by spray painting it black to tie in with the black in the decal and fabric designs.

To update the chair, I first painted it a similar shade of blue to the one found in the fabric design.

Recovering the chair, I cut the fabric to size and then used a staple gun to attach fabric to the bottom of the cushion. For me, strategically folding and stapling the corners so they weren’t a mess was the most challenging part!

Lining drawers with decal was an easy way to update the drab drawers. I simply measured the inside of the drawers and using large 30”x30” decals I cut a piece to size and covered the bottom of each drawer.
Ta-Da! The end result is a definite upgrade from the sad-looking desk I started with. Now to work on organizing all my crafting and sewing notions that fill the drawers! Looking for more furniture re-do inspo? Follow our Handmade Home Decor board on Pinterest.