Tag: spoonflower

  • Rainbow Twirl Skirts for Everyone!

    I just posted something about this over on my Facebook page, but I couldn’t resist blogging about it real quickly here. I completely adore the fact that my Rainbow Twirl Skirt fabric kit has been so well received and loved by both young and old. Here are two brilliant cases in point… I mean, COME…

  • ‘Good Drawing Hand’ Days

    Well, alrighty then. I think this time it’s fairly safe to say that I really did fall into a hole. A drawing haze of a hole. I’ve been working on a couple commissions along with new textile designs and have simply fallen into a sketching and drawing and using-up-of-ink-pens haze. I’ve got a stack of almost,…

  • Sticks & Spots, Stripes & Dots

    Here’s a little bit of fun news I didn’t get the chance to share last week…. I won Spoonflower’s latest design competition last Thursday!!! The theme?  Geometrics. (photo courtesy of Spoonflower) My answer? Sticks & Spots, Stripes & Dots! Ta-daa! This was a two-color specific, palette-restricted challenge and although I typically gravitate towards more saturated colors, the…

  • Giveaway Winners Announced

    Well, I got to it all a day late. My apologies. We got swept up in all things long holiday weekend-related and I’m only now just finding the time to post the winners of my two Sew, Mama, Sew! giveaways. So let’s get to it… Giveaway Part One: Nautilus & Nautilus Jr. Chef Hats (Cut…

  • Nautilus Show You Something Fun…

    Feast your eyes on this vision: That’s right folks. Welcome to the deep end of culinary madness. Please have a seat. Stay a while. Some of you may have already been introduced, but to be sure, let’s have a drumroll for the latest addition to the “The Chefalopod!: Culinary Companion Collection”: *darrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuummmmmmmm ting!* Presenting: Nautilus…

  • My Latest Toile Voyage

    I feel like I’ve been in hiding. Or so it seems to me these last few days. I’ve been offline quite a bit while having my nose down, diligently working on my latest Spoonflower contest submission, due today. A Toile de Jouy based on the history of the town where I live. And considering that’s New…

  • TDAT’s YouTopia

    You may recall I was a finalist in last September’s Cooking 4 Kids challenge hosted by the awesome crew over at They Draw & Cook. Well, their sister site, They Draw & Travel (and btw, if you know me, you know I’ve done both of those a fair amount) just closed their submission period for…

  • Third Place: Graffiti

    Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve officially defaced my way to third place in this week’s Spoonflower fabric design contest. Behold (photo courtesy of Spoonflower): The brief: graffiti/street art. My approach: creating a sweetly innocuous pattern and then defacing the heck out of it like a crazed red pen-wielding beastie. I enjoyed it, to say the least. And…

  • Look What I Spied!

    Being pretty new to the world of quilting, there are many things I’m just discovering. One thing I’ve heard about for a little while is an ‘I Spy’ quilt and ‘I Spy’ swaps. I really had no clue why they were called this. For those of you avid quilters out there, I know….duh. For the…

  • More Drawing

    See? I told you I’m on a drawing kick and this is certainly not the end of it. As I was working on this design, I thought I’d take some photos of various stages, so you can at least see a set of progress shots. There were steps I forgot to document because I was…