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We're 10 days into the #SFDesignADay SpoonChallenge! Today's design prompt is brought to you by Sharon Turner (aka Scrummy), an avid Spoonflower Marketplace contributor with a knack for Steampunk designs.
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Ah, the heart. It is an unpredictable and wild thing…unless you add some machinery and a little steam power. Check out the romantic fabrics submitted for the Urban Threads Steampunk Valentine Design Challenge and vote for the design you think would make the perfect embroidery pattern!
We are so excited to partner with Urban Threads to help add a new embroidery pattern to their amazingly fresh and offbeat library of designs!
Urban Threads, creators of beautiful machine and hand embroidery patterns, love offering coordinating fabrics for their embroidery patterns–their Spoonflower shop features tons of “fabric designs to rock your embroidery,” in fact! Together, we’re giving you the opportunity to design a Steampunk Valentine themed fabric, and they will create a coordinating embroidery pattern for the winning design!
WHO: Spoonflower and Urban Threads are teaming up for a very special fabric design challenge.
WHAT: Our Steampunk Valentine Design Challenge seeks designs from which a lovely Steampunk Valentine’s themed embroidery pattern can be adapted by Urban Threads. The winner of this contest will work with Urban Threads to create an embroidery pattern to coordinate with their fabric design. We’re not designing embroidery patterns to be stitched in this contest, but patterns with a Steampunk Valentine theme that can be adapted to have accompanying embroidery elements offered through Urban Threads. Check out their handy Style Guide here for a full explanation of the types of designs that work well as embroidery coordinates. The good folks at Urban Threads will choose one winner from the top ten vote getting designs. The winner will receive a $100 cash prize from Urban Threads, and all top designers will receive $50 in Spoondollar credit.
WHEN: The design deadline is February 3, 2015. Voting will take place February 5 – February 11, 2015. The top ten designs and the four winners will be announced on February 12, 2015. The final embroidery pattern will be offered by Urban Threads in the coming months.
HOW: To enter, create your own Spoonflower account, upload an original fabric design to the account, and enter the design in the Steampunk Valentine Embroidery Coordinate contest using the drop-down menu for entering contests. Designs should be created especially for this contest, and all artwork must be your original work and should not include clip art or other available Valentine’s Day-themed artwork. A note about your design file: Urban Threads will need a high resolution jpg (at least 300 dpi and letter size) or a vector file to create the resulting embroidery pattern. We encourage you to prepare your original file for this, but you should create a copy of your file saved to 150 dpi to upload to Spoonflower. Your Spoonflower preview will be viewed at 150 dpi in a fat-quarter size (21” x 18”).
See the full details and official rules here.
We are so excited to partner with Urban Threads to help add a new embroidery pattern to their amazingly fresh and offbeat library of designs!
Urban Threads, creators of beautiful machine and hand embroidery patterns, love offering coordinating fabrics for their embroidery patterns–their Spoonflower shop features tons of “fabric designs to rock your embroidery,” in fact! Together, we’re giving you the opportunity to design a Steampunk Valentine themed fabric, and they will create a coordinating embroidery pattern for the winning design!
[Read more…] about Urban Threads Steampunk Valentine Design Challenge
Welcome to the penultimate day of our 12 Days of Giveaways! The embroidery fans among you will appreciate that we’ve asked Niamh O’Connor, creator and “Evil Genius” behind Urban Threads and an excellent Spoonflower designer herself, to curate a bundle of 12 fat quarters from the Spoonflower marketplace, and she was totally up for the challenge! On offer today are Niamh’s 12 picks in a steampunk theme and the result is a pile o’ steampunky goodness printed on 100% Kona cotton! We’re also throwing in a selection of Guterman thread to aid you in your nefarious plan to stitch up a mad steampunk quilt. We think they’ll make an amazing quilt for your favorite steampunk fan (or for you to keep yourself). Links to each of Niamh’s fabric picks are below.
Enter before 8:00 am Tuesday and we’ll announce a winner a little later that morning when we announce the twelfth and final giveaway of the 12 Days. Good luck, everyone, and congratulations to yesterday's winner of the vintage Simplicity patterns, Ginger Clark!
In the penultimate installment of our 12 Days of Giveaways we've assembled a very special set of treats. We've curated four geek fabric assortments, including a steampunk FQ bundle, a sci-fi FQ bundle, a science FQ bundle and an alt-aesthetic fabric bundle. With each of these fat quarter sets, we'll also include a 26-spool box of Gutermann thread. Pretty cool, no?
To be entered for a chance to win one of the geek fabric bundles along with a set of Gutermann thread, leave a comment on this blog post or on the corresponding link on the Spoonflower Facebook page. We'll accept entries that come in up until 7 am EST on Dec. 11th, but please be sure to leave us enough information to be able to track you down by listing your Spoonflower username in your comment.
(Steampunk bundle: CLOCKWORK COLLAGE by Ophelia, STEAMPUNK BIRDMAN, VARIATION II by Mudstuffing,
STEAMPUNK AVIATION by Mouo, LETS_ROLL BY VO_AKA_VIRGINIAO, VINTAGE HOT AIR BALOONS RUST AND STEEL by RAVYNKA, VINTAGE_EPHEMERA_ZOO_CREAM by RAVYNKA, STEAMPUNK_SKETCHES by Mytinystar,
AMBITIOUS PLANS by Shirlene, STEAMPUNK NETWORK by Pantsmonkey, DIRIGIBLE BICYCLE by CurlyCue,
STEAMSTRINGS by Jasmo, WINGS FOR BRAINS by Nalo Hopkinson)
We'll choose four winners and announce the results tomorrow, December 12th, around 10:00 AM Eastern Standard Time. Tomorrow we'll also hold our last giveaway!
Congratulations to the winners of yesterday's Day 10 drawing for handmade goods from Spoonflower Etsy sellers: Adrianne Hamilton, Spoonflower user princezz1252, Jane Riddles Sheffler, Spoonflower user mariao, Ruth Knapp Vallejos, Spoonflower user Staceysew, and Veerle Lesecque.
Our Alt-Aesthetic fabric bundle today consists of Mershim by Cateanevski, GHOSTS—NIGHTSHADE by Cateanevski, GIANT FLYING SQUIRREL ATTACK TOILE by ThirdHalfStudios, DOTD SKULLS WHITE SMALL by ThirdHalfStudios, BEAUTIFUL BONES: SIRENAS – GOLD by JessicaSoon, ALICE IN STEAMLAND DOLL PATTERN by CurlyCue, BLACK SPIDERWEBS ON YELLOW by MuddyFoot, AMBITION by Nalo Hopkinson, and LARGE GHOSTLY SQUID DAMASK by PattySloniger.
Sci-Fi bundle: TIME TRAVEL MAP by Jenimp, MADMAN IN A BLUE BOX by StudioFibonacci, GREEN NEBULA by Corseceng, INVADERS LIME by ThirdHalfStudios, VITRUVIAN DALEK by StudioFibonacci, STARFLEET – COMMAND by StudioFibonacci, THAT'S NO MOON… by ThirdHalfStudios, MACROCOSM IN FOG by DolphinandCondor, and TIME IS A MAN MADE CONCEPT by PoetryQN.
Science bundle: IDIOM PUZZLES by PrimeNumberGirl, CHEMISTRY ALPHABET by Melisza, EQUATIONS AND EQUATIONS by PrimeNumberGirl, CHEMISTRY LAB by Craftyfolk, LITTLE FLAME TEST by Spellstone, SCIENCE1A by Muhlenkott, SALTLAB SEA-GREY SOLID DOUBLE CHAIN by Saltlabs, SPRING POLYGONS by Saltlabs, CHALKBOARD GEOMETRY by SaltLabs, LINED PAPER- GRAPH PAPER by Mayabella, and USEFUL MEASUREMENTS DRESS AND SKIRT by Primenumbergirl.
Congratulations to Natalie Kelsey: her Charted Waters design won the most votes (by an impressive margin) in our first-ever Steampunk-themed Fabric Of the Week competition. Check out more of Natalie’s work on DeviantArt.
Thanks to all the participating designers! The top ten vote-getters were:
The design theme for this week’s fabric contest is Steampunk, an aesthetic in which Victorian technology gets mingled with science fiction and fantasy. You have 38 designs to admire this week, but for the first time you’ll be able to vote without leaving Spoonflower. It’s the inaugural week of our very own contest tool. Voting should work pretty much the way our most recent contests have worked, but please let us know if you spot any problems. As usual, you can vote for as many designs as you like! We’ll announce the winner next week.
VOTE IN THE STEAMPUNK FABRIC CONTEST
Participants in the contest this week are:
[Note: a few folks tried to enter this contest after the Monday deadline had passed. We’ve removed those entries from the voting.]
Congratulations to Julie Shaw of Surrey — her Green Lacewing fabric crawled to the top of a wriggling mass of terrific designs in our bug-themed Fabric Of the Week contest. Like our other winners, Julie will receive five yards of free Spoonflower fabric.
The top ten bug fabrics from last week's voting were:
Thank you to all the great designers who participated! Find information on upcoming contest themes (posted thus far) — including next week's Steampunk contest – HERE.
