water colors

Water Color Fabric Winner: Félicitations à Nadja Petremand of Lille, France

April 15, 2010

Our latest Fabric Of the Week winner is Nadja Petremand of Lille, France. Her 'Circulation' fabric won the most votes in a contest dedicated to fabric designs created from water color paintings and digitized using a scanner or camera [rather than designs created using sophisticated programs like Illustrator or Photoshop].

The community voting totals gave us the top ten below, but thanks to all the designers who participated!

1. 1482 votes for circulation
by nadja_p
2. 838 votes for Painted Birds by
daynagedney
3. 759 votes for c'est la viv_anemone by
c'est_la_viv
4. 606 votes for Sweetness by vo
5. 591 votes for Yellow Pedals by
helenklebesadel
6. 532 votes for e. HIBISCUS by edyta
7. 503 votes for Chrysanthemum by callen
8. 499 votes for New York Natives by
sammyk
9. 440 votes for Hawaiian Hibiscus
Watercolor by leilehua
10. 417 votes for Birdies by pooky

Fabric Of the Week Contest: Vote for fabric designs created using water colors

April 8, 2010

This week our contest is built around fabric designs created using water colors and digitized using a minimal amount of software manipulation. As you look through the entries (there are 70), some of the designs were clearly created using paint and others…. well, it's hard to tell. As you vote, it's probably worth keeping in mind the theme and letting your sense of fidelity to theme — as well as the beauty of the patterns — guide your choices of favorites. But the most important thing, as always, is to have fun and find inspiration.

Vote For Water Color Fabrics

The participants are:

Upcoming fabric design contest themes: gardens, water colors, & tessellations

March 25, 2010

– For details on entering and information on rules, prizes, etc. see our Upcoming Contests page —

Tessellations. Design fabric using
the mathematical principle of tessellation, or tiling, where the
design consists of a shape repeated over and over again covering the
fabric
without any gaps or overlaps. This can be done very crudely, of course,
with squares, but for more sophisticated examples see the work of M. C. Escher
and the tile
mosaics of the Alhambra palace in Spain. You can find tutorials on
creating this sort of design, as well as examples, on Tessellations.org. Deadline is
Tuesday, April 13, at noon EST.

Water
Colors. Submit only fabric designs created using watercolor paints,
then digitized via scan or photograph. Please use minimal digital
manipulation in preparing your file for Spoonflower: the goal of this
contest is to showcase work done by hand. Deadline is Tuesday, April 6,
at noon EST.

Gardens. Contest
for fabric designs using gardens and gardening as a design motif. Entries
close on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, at noon EST.

[Note: Please do not enter designs that have appeared in previous contests.]