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News from Spoonflower about custom fabric printing, sewing, crafters and crafting. The official blog of Spoonflower.com, a service that prints custom fabric on-demand.
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Coats Of Arms Of Many Colors

For this week's challenge we asked designers to create an original family crest, or coat of arms, for their own family and to turn that into a fabric design. As is the case with many of our more...

6 h ago

Scooters Win Motorcycle Fabric Contest

Not surprisingly, it turns out that the Spoonflower crowd would rather be stylish than speedy, choosing a set of dainty scooters as the winning fabric in our motorcycle-themed contest. Congratulation...

10 h ago

Crafty Photography Book Giveaway and Drawing Set Giveaway Winner

Photography has never been my strong suit so I'm often stopped in my tracks whenever I'm cruising around Etsy. How did all these people who are clearly so talented at making stuff--purses, ...

1 day ago

Turn a family treasure into a fabric design: Make a silk scarf from old newspaper clippings

This week guest author Emma Jeffery from the blog Hello Beautiful shows us how she turned a family keepsake into a beautiful silk scarf. I have never really been the kind of person who collects trink...

2 days ago

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Linda Mahoney

This is the seventh and penultimate 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 wor...

2 days ago

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Tamara Serrao

This is the sixth 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...

3 days ago

Spoonflower Picks for Pretty Skirts

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...

6 days ago

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Julie Lynch

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...

6 days ago

Get Your Bobbin Running... and Vote for Motorcycle Fabrics!

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...

24 may 12

Announcing the Top 10 Hand-Drawn Fabrics

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...

24 may 12

Announcing the Urban Sightings Contest Grand Prize Winner

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...

24 may 12

Drawing Set giveaway and Handmade Weddings book winner

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...

23 may 12 1 person likes this

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Mandy Kippax

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...

22 may 12

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Sara Berrenson

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...

21 may 12

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Heather Dutton

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...

18 may 12

Hand Drawn Goodness: A contest for fabric designs created by hand

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. ...

17 may 12

Announcing the Top Ten Retro Kitchen Fabrics

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...

17 may 12

Handmade Weddings book giveaway and Oliver + S pattern winner

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...

16 may 12 1 person likes this

Fabric8 Finalist Profile - Lucie Duclos

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...

15 may 12

Heather Ross Weekend Sewing Workshop NYC

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...

14 may 12

Retro Fantastic: Kitchen Fabrics Aplenty

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...

10 may 12

Fabric8 Finalists + Advice For Creating Fabric Collections

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...

10 may 12 1 person likes this

Oliver + S pattern giveaway and I Spy fabric winner

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'...

09 may 12

Attention Crafters: Snails Are the New Owl

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&...

03 may 12 1 person likes this

Announcing the Fabric8 Top 100: Time to vote for the finalists!

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...

03 may 12

Crafterhours I Spy quilt squares giveaway and Denyse Schmidt book winner

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...

02 may 12

Fabrics for Picniks

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...

30 apr 12

Whats the New Owl? Help Us Choose

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...

26 apr 12

Hats Off to Our Winning Hat Patterns

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...

26 apr 12

Denyse Schmidts Modern Quilts book giveaway and Hat Shop giveaway winner

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...

25 apr 12

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