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Recapping the Spoonflower Handbook Launch Party

September 12, 2015

Last week at Spoonflower HQ, we opened our doors to Spoonflower fans from around North Carolina to party with us for an evening! Why? Well, to celebrate the release of our first book, The Spoonflower Handbook: A DIY Guide to Designing Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift wrap, of course!

The night was full of cupcakes, local craft beer, plushies, polaroids, and surface design! About one hundred folks turned out to take tours of the Spoonflower factory and pick up a freshly signed copy of the book.

The underwater selfie station was very popular, and chock full of aquatic Minky creatures designed by Sharon Turner (Scrummy)!

Minky shark designed by Scrummy. Photo courtesy of Marianne Milliken.

By the end of the night, polaroids and #spoonflowerhandbookselfies were scattered about the lobby. Thanks for the amazing shark plushie, Srummy!

Stephen Fraser, Spoonflower cofounder, spoke about the origins of Spoonflower and gave a playful walkthrough of one of the most popular projects in the book: the Doppelgänger Dog Pillow!

Doppelgänger dog friends hanging out on the couch! Photos courtesy of Marianne Millikan

The launch party and book signing was a fun opportunity to mingle with crafters, surface designers and sewists from around North Carolina, not to mention get acquainted with Spoonflower staff and factory operations. It's a colorful place, and we hope everyone had a blast. We sure did! Thanks to everyone who came out for the party.

Pepper the Cat pillow making the rounds.

Switch faceplates customized with Woven Peel and Stick Wallpaper. Photo courtesy of Marianne Millikin.

Projects from the Spoonflower Handbook

Have you started reading The Spoonflower Handbook? What's the first project you're going to tackle? Let us know in the comments, and don't forget to enter our #SpoonflowerHandbookSelfie giveaway by posting a selfie with our Handbook to Instagram!

Announcing the #SpoonflowerHandbookSelfie Giveaway!

September 2, 2015

The Spoonflower Handbook is finally here and we're celebrating with an extra special giveaway! This is no ordinary giveaway–this time we want to see your selfie!

HOW TO ENTER: Post a selfie with your copy of The Spoonflower Handbook on Instagram using the hashtag #SpoonflowerHandbookSelfie and tag us (@spoonflower) to be automatically entered to win!

PRIZES, RULES, ETC: Each Tuesday, beginning September 8th, we'll randomly select one winner to receive two yards of custom-printed Spoonflower fabric of the winner's choosing. We'll pull one lucky winner each week (on Tuesdays) for six weeks. Please limit one selfie per person. Winners will be notified via an Instagram direct message.

READ THE OFFICIAL RULES HERE

Spoonflower cofounder, Stephen, with his #SpoonflowerHandbookSelfie

Still haven't picked up your copy? You can order our new book here. We can't wait to see your selfies!

The Spoonflower Handbook has Arrived!!

September 1, 2015

We've been eagerly awaiting this day for years, literally. The Spoonflower Handbook has arrived–cue the confetti and pop the champagne! We're thrilled to finally share our first book with our community. The Spoonflower Handbook puts surface design for fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap well within the reach of creative people everywhere.

This book is an essential step-by-step user’s manual and project collection for this booming new creative outlet. Written for both new and experienced users of this print-on-demand technology, it covers everything from equipment to software to working with photos, scans, repeats, and vector files, and includes projects for the home and wardrobe as well as special tutorials contributed by members of the Spoonflower community.

Can't wait to pick up a copy? Go ahead and order one today! Share a photo of yourself on Instagram with the book using the hashtag #Spoonflowerhandbookselfie for a chance to win two yards of custom-printed Spoonflower fabric of your choice. We'll be drawing one winner every Tuesday for the next six weeks, so grab a copy and show us your best selfie!

ORDER NOW!

If you're local to North Carolina, join us for a book signing and party at Spoonflower HQ on Thursday, September 3, from 6-8pm, to celebrate the release of The Spoonflower Handbook!

Spoonflower Book Announcement

July 26, 2013

Exciting news: Spoonflower is writing a book! The book will be published by
Abrams Books (under the STC Craft |Melanie Falick Books imprint) in Fall of
2014. Our working title is Spoonflower’s Step-by-Step Guide to DIY Digital Design:
Fabric, Wallpaper, and Gift Wrap, but we’re still kicking it around, so that may change. Our goal is to
make the book be everything you’d expect from us: cool projects, lots of how-to techniques, beautiful photography, and plenty of inspiration for creating your
own digital designs.

In fact, we’re looking for contributions from the Spoonflower
community to include in the book! We have specific things we’re looking for right now—from full-blown
projects to interviews and examples. If you’re interested in contributing, you can share your projects using these forms:

Follow our instructions to create a specific bird-design project for submission.
Contribute a finished fabric project.
Contribute a project that uses just a Spoonflower swatch.
Complete a brief interview form about your personal color choices.

The deadline for submitting project ideas is right around the corner. We'd like to have all submissions of the items above by Monday, August 12th, 2013. We have more
things we’ll be looking for a little later this summer, so stayed tuned!

Also, we want to officially introduce you to the people who are working on the book. Along with Stephen Fraser, one of Spoonflower's two co-founders, we're working with Judi Ketteler and Becka Rahn. Judi is a writer,
craft fanatic, and author of the book Sew Retro. Becka is the Director of Education
at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where she develops fiber art curriculum and
teaches sewing, felting, and digital and technology skills to beginners of all ages.
Becka and Judi will be working together with the publisher and with us to make
this book a reality.
We could not be more thrilled to be sharing this with all of you! The Spoonflower
community has been so supportive from the very beginning, and we’re really
excited to be publishing a book that tells the Spoonflower story and further ignites
people’s creativity.

We’ll keep you posted!