I'm so pleased that Susan and Adrianna at Crafterhours invited us to participate in their annual Skirt Week series this year. From the many times I was teased as a girl for preferring long prair...
This is the fifth in our series of profiles of the eight finalists in the Fabric8 contest, a competition from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics to discover a handful of the world's best ama...
It's almost summer, when the lure of the open road is at its most powerful. While most of us are probably not in a position to throw away everything and hit the highway à la Jack Nicholson in Ea...
With a field of 500 entries, it's a special treat to announce the top ten in our contest for fabric designs created from handmade art. This week's winner is quilter and graphic designer Dia...
Remember the Urban Sightings contest we ran a few weeks ago? As you may remember, the co-sponsor for that contest was the Textile Center in Minneapolis, which turned the top ten designs into a terrif...
Browsing all the amazing hand-drawn fabric designs for this week's contest--not to mention the pen, ink, and watercolor renderings for the Fabric8 contest--has gotten us pretty excited lately ab...
This is the fourth in our series of profiles of the eight finalists in the Fabric8 contest, a competition from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics to discover a handful of the world's best am...
This is the third in our series of profiles of the eight finalists in the Fabric8 contest, a competition from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics to discover a handful of the world's best ama...
This is the second in our series of profiles of the eight finalists in the Fabric8 contest, a competition from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics to discover a handful of the world's best am...
Just to prove that creating a fabric design doesn't require you to be an expert in Photoshop or Illustrator, this week's contest includes over 500 entries that started out as handmade art. ...
We had 280 entries in the retro-kitchen fabric design contest, which required participants to use a restricted palette of colors. The top ten are a coordinated bundle of awesome, but the top vote-get...
People get married anytime of year of course, but it sure seems like I can hardly visit my favorite crafting and design sites lately without reading a new wedding project idea or wedding photo slides...
As regular readers know, we're down to eight finalists in the Fabric8 contest, a competition from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics to discover a handful of the world's best amateur te...
Heather Ross sewing workshoppers busy at their projects in the Sewing Studio I dont usually start my Mondays feeling inspired and cheerful but this Monday is different. Coming off a weekend spe...
Now and then we post contests in which we limit designers to a pre-selected group of colors. While these contests always seem to get the creative juices flowing, I'm not sure we've ever had...
We're very excited to announce the top eight designers from a pool of 100 semifinalists in the Fabric8 competition from Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Close to 7,000 people from all ove...
We're big fans of Liesl Gibson's Oliver + S clothing patterns around here. Cute kids' clothes with interesting construction details that are practical and not too frou-frou--what'...
We set out to unthrone the owl from its perch as the king of all crafty critters and today we're pleased, and slightly surprised, to be able to announce that the new owl is... snails. This week&...
As you may have read on the Fabric8 contest site, judges from Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Spoonflower have narrowed down over 750 entries to 100 semifinalists for the Fabric8 competition. Starting tod...
Spoonflower I Spy Assortment: Alloy Set, from Crafterhours I normally think of spring as my dress sewing season, not my quilting season. The weather is staying warm now, my garden is in full bloom, a...
Yesterday, Spoonflower staff took the afternoon off to enjoy our first annual staff spring picnic. There was a whole pig for pickin', loads of good food brought by staff (who seem to be a foodie...
As a visual theme, owls have dominated the crafty world for far too long, in our opinion. So this week we asked designers to propose a new alpha critter. So what will be the new owl? Hedgehogs, foxes...
This week we get to congratulate designer Tamara Serrao (Kayajoy) of Montreal for her 6th Fabric of the Week contest win. Her pattern for sewing two reversible kids' hats won the most votes this...
Denyse Schmidt provided one of my earliest introductions to the modern quilting movement. I love that she derives inspiration from vintage quilts and designs since these are dear to me already, but s...
Good luck to the more than 750 designers who entered the Fabric8 contest! Entries are now closed, and we'll be picking the 100 semi-finalists over this next week. Voting on these 100 semi-finali...
To all you design procrastinators out there, the deadline to enter the Fabric8 contest -- a competition to find eight of the best amateur textile designers in the world -- is upon us! The contest is...
This was a tough contest to enter. We asked designers to create fabric patterns for making hats that can be printed onto a yard of fabric. How well some of these patterns will work when people actual...
Our top ten fabrics this week celebrate the art of making things with fabric. The winner is designer Jennifer Wambach, a talented artist whose previous wins include our bowling, alphabet and poin till...
Coincidental to our upcoming fabric-of-the week contest theme of hat patterns, we were recently sent a copy of Hat Shop, a new book all about hats to sew compiled by Susanne Woods. To me, this is pro...
Fabric design shown above is Rainbow Stars by Animotaxis I've had color on the brain lately, in part because our neighborhood, the parks, the roadsides, and just everywhere you look around here...
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