urban sightings

The top ten fabrics from this week's contest are headed for an exhibit at the Textile Center in Minneapolis, where jurors will select their favorite for a grand prize. The people's choice in our voting was Canadian designer Cynthia Frenette's "Take the Detour Route," but all of the top ten offer terrific spins on the contest theme, which centered on the transformation of an urban neighborhood using selected photos as inspiration. 

Keeping in mind that this contest consisted of a juried group of designs to begin with and that the top prize is actually going to be selected by judges from the Textile Center, the top ten designers are:

1. Take the detour route by cynthiafrenette
2. Arc by spellstone
3. Texas Modern Crop Squares Coral by jacinda
4. Follow the Urban Brick Road by sarahwalden~peacoquettedesigns
5. St_Augustine_Urban_Sightings_ by catail_designs
6. King o' Pork by boris_thumbkin
7. No barking by lien_geeroms
8. City Sightings by gracedesign
9. Brick by Brick by katieschrader
10. Urban Meanderings by glimmericks

The remaining entrants are also to be congratulated:

11.  Urban stripes by demigoutte 
12. Abandoned Tangle Town (We all take the light rail now!) by sew-me-a-garden 
13. DELINEATION by scrummy 
14.  cones descending a staircase by ottomanbrim 
15. Spoonflower_contest_urbansightings_AnneLouiseLaugesen by annelouise 
16. Another brick in the pavement by cassiopee 
17. park the bike and go for a walk by katarina 
18. Submission for Urban Sightings by lijlijlijntje 
19.  NO PARKING by robyriker 
20. Traffic and Triangles by gsonge 
21. Imagine Beauty All Around by gg33 
22. Urban Scallop by labrattish 
23.  urban-girl by tessiegirldesigns 
24. Cones on Drying Concrete by margotten 
25. road_curves by wiccked 
26.  neon city by sarah_joseph 
27.  Urban Sightings Stripes by mongiesama 
28.  Mon_night by mniigeat 
29.  Under construction by gergana_mollova 
30. Urban Euphoria by natbrynkids 
31. Traffic Patterns by susanpolston 
32.  Knitcycle Hits the Bricks by mammajamma 
33.  Under Construction by animotaxis 
34.  Urban Daffodils by a_most_peculiar 
35.  bike_yarn by rokinronda 
36. follow_the_yellow_brick_road by topfrog56 
37.  Beauty in Everything by lina_lissner 
38.  Urban Impressions by audettesa 
39.  Under construction urban spot by fantazya 
40.  I *HEART* PARKING AT THE TEXTILE CENTER by 1squarepeg 
41. snakeroad by karmacranes 
42.  textilecentrebiketile_edited-1 by frances"fancy_felter" 
43.  5-TxtCtr_Urban_Stgs_1_IMG_3113T20120314103115-001 by manywoman 
44.  1057410_rrrrrrrrrrrrrsp-tex2 by dragonfly2356 
45.  Caution_No_Parking by betsypreston 

Our contest this week is an unusual one for a couple of reasons. First, we're inviting you to vote for a collection of juried fabric designs, which is a change from our generally inclusive approach to contests. The 45 designs up for voting were selected as finalists by judges from the Textile Center in Minneapolis from a pool of 236 entries. All of the fabrics were inspired by one or more of six photos taken in and around the Prospect Park neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN, where a  new light rail line is being constructed through the center of the neighborhood. The Textile Center plans to exhibit the top ten fabrics in its gallery to celebrate the art that can be found in everyday surroundings and the daily transition of the neighborhood landscape during this large construction project. One winner, selected by curators of the gallery, will receive a free, copy of Photoshop, and all of the top ten will receive $50 in Spoondollar credit!

The finalist designs were: 

1. 1057410_rrrrrrrrrrrrrsp-tex2 by dragonfly2356 
2. 5-TxtCtr_Urban_Stgs_1_IMG_3113T20120314103115-001 by manywoman 
3. Abandoned Tangle Town (We all take the light rail now!) by sew-me-a-garden 
4. Another brick in the pavement by cassiopee 
5. Arc by spellstone 
6. Beauty in Everything by lina_lissner 
7. bike_yarn by rokinronda 
8. Brick by Brick by katieschrader 
9. Caution_No_Parking by betsypreston 
10. City Sightings by gracedesign 
11. cones descending a staircase by ottomanbrim 
12. Cones on Drying Concrete by margotten 
13. DELINEATION by scrummy 
14. Follow the Urban Brick Road by sarahwalden~peacoquettedesigns 
15. follow_the_yellow_brick_road by topfrog56 
16. I *HEART* PARKING AT THE TEXTILE CENTER by 1squarepeg 
17. Imagine Beauty All Around by gg33 
18. King o' Pork by boris_thumbkin 
19. Knitcycle Hits the Bricks by mammajamma 
20. Mon_night by mniigeat 
21. neon city by sarah_joseph 
22. No barking by lien_geeroms 
23. NO PARKING by robyriker 
24. park the bike and go for a walk by katarina 
25. road_curves by wiccked 
26. snakeroad by karmacranes 
27. Spoonflower_contest_urbansightings_AnneLouiseLaugesen by anne_louise 
28. St_Augustine_Urban_Sightings_ by catail_designs 
29. Submission for Urban Sightings by lijlijlijntje 
30. Take the detour route by cynthiafrenette 
31. Texas Modern Crop Squares Coral by jacinda 
32. textilecentrebiketile_edited-1 by frances"fancy_felter" 
33. Traffic and Triangles by gsonge 
34. Traffic Patterns by susanpolston 
35. Under construction by gergana_mollova 
36. Under Construction by animotaxis 
37. Under construction urban spot by fantazya 
38. Urban Daffodils by a_most_peculiar 
39. Urban Euphoria by natbrynkids 
40. Urban Impressions by audettesa 
41. Urban Meanderings by glimmericks 
42. Urban Scallop by labrattish 
43. Urban Sightings Stripes by mongiesama 
44. Urban stripes by demigoutte 
45. urban-girl by tessiegirldesigns