{Review} Spoonflower Fabric Printing

{Review} Spoonflower Fabric Printing

Continuing my series on print-on-demand fabric services, today I’m reviewing the original trailblazer on the digital fabric printing scene, Spoonflower. I have been a Spoonflower designer for many years now, and you can find all the prints featured in this article - and many more - in my Spoonflower shop.

Travelling Light: Weekend Wardrobes

Travelling Light: Weekend Wardrobes

This week I'm mainly obsessing (and I mean obsessing) over novelty prints, playsuits and mix-and-match holiday wardrobes. I absolutely love the idea of packaged "wardrobes" of interchangeable, co-ordinated pieces, and it seems they were quite the thing in the early 50s.

Fabric Design Primer Part 2: Perfecting Your Patterns

Fabric Design Primer Part 2: Perfecting Your Patterns

There are lots of tutorials out there on “how to create a fabric design”, but they tend to focus on the technical aspects of creating a tiling image, and don’t usually provide much detail on the actual design process, or pointers on what makes a design work well. I don’t claim to be an expert, but in this blog series I’m sharing what I’ve learned from years of studying, reproducing and creating fabric designs.

Fabric Design Primer Part 1: Basic Principles

Fabric Design Primer Part 1: Basic Principles

I’ve been getting lots of questions lately about how to get started in designing fabrics, so I thought I’d share some pointers for anyone looking to get into it. I don’t claim to be an artist, or an expert, but in this blog series I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned from years of studying, reproducing and creating fabric designs.