Spoonflower love

I'm in Victoria visiting my parents for a few days and while I'm busily taking photos and enjoying the fact that it is truly spring here on Vancouver Island.  The birds are singing, the magnolias and daffs are blooming, and it's warm and sunny.  Thank you BCLA (some sort of library association) for making us come down!

In the mean time I thought I'd show some of the fabrics I'm drooling over on Spoonflower.

To start, fabric by June Jewell.  I'm completely in love with her botanicals, but she does some pretty amazing other stuff, too.  She has a gorgeous calender print and a ridiculously awesome converse design.  Go, look, buy!

adios,yo

C

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Inspiration

With spring somewhere around the corner and sunshine streaming through the windows I'm starting to feel a change. It may have snowed 10 inches the other day, but I'm feeling a little prickle, a little squirm that tells me that green, yellow, pink, red, violet, they're all coming, and I better get ready. The signs are all there - a packet of seeds arriving in the mail, the basement stored bulbs suddenly blooming (whoops!). It won't really be spring until late April, even then we can get snow and frost through until early June. But I'm realizing I need to start ordering seeds, planning the veg patch, thinking of baring my legs again!

Wild Air by the wheatfield

One of the biggest clues could be that today was the launch of Katie Daisy's new blog. I've been in love with Katie's work for a couple of years now, possibly because it always seems to be summer and spring in Katie's world. I don't know why I've never bought a piece, what is the matter with me? In the middle of a bleak, rainy November day or when the snow has turned to compact sheets of ice and you really, really don't want to leave the house, just looking at one of her prints is better than any other pick me up I can think of.

Now to anyone reading this, I just have one request. Please go visit Katie's blog and bombard her with requests for a fabric line! Wouldn't you just love to slice in to some gloriously smooth lawn or a slightly nubby linen blend in her patterns? If you know anyone in the fabric world, pester them, too. This girl needs a fabric line!!

Until then there is her spoonflower offering, which I've also been meaning to pick up for a while. And a drool worthy gallery of potential spoonflower prints.


Please, Katie, pretty please?

xox,
C

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Spoonflower love

One of my big goals for 2011 is to design a line of fabrics and post them to Spoonflower. I'm no artist, I haven't drawn anything other than quick working sketches for quilt layouts and wedding cake designs (previous career) in years. While I try to come up with a theme, a palette, a germ of an idea, I thought I'd share some of the amazing artists I've come across on Spoonflower and their beautiful fabrics.


My first pick is Trois Miettes from Switzerland. I love her mod, nature inspired designs. The lines are so clean, the designs fresh without crossing that line into kitschy. I absolutely adore her dog show and teacups prints! They would be so perfect fussy cut as the center of a log cabin or star block. And her winterbloom (the branches) would be perfect as a trim to pillow shams and sheets.

le sigh,

C

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