It’s a Fall Fabric Designing Frenzy!

Over the last several months I have been absorbed with designing fabric with Spoonflower.

It started by designing mask fabric and then I moved on to designing a repeat pattern from my mushroom painting. After designing the repeat, I printed Fungi Fantasy in 2 different scales because I love the idea of seeing big mushrooms that can be used as a focus print, and then coordinating a secondary smaller scale print to go with it.

I used the large scale mushroom design to print fabric on cotton twill to make throw pillows. The cotton twill prints so vividly, it is gorgeous!

Awesome quilter and textile artist Kristin LaFlamme made this adorable dress from the smaller scale Fungi Fantasy printed on Spoonflower’s Sweet Pea Gauze, and then she designed a mushroom embroidery image to stitch on a coordinating mask!

The next fabric I designed was Technicolor Covid. 

Obviously, I have a dark sense of humor about things, it’s kinda how I cope with stress, lol. This pattern started out as a painting on canvas, but then I switched to painting the design completely in graphics software.

I printed this one on the Petal Signature cotton.

But, what I’m really excited to share with you is…

Bee-loved

Bee-loved has 5 coordinating bee themed fabrics.

The Bees in the Meadow print comes in 2 different scale prints. The large print bees are 3.5” tall from their antenna to the tip of their stinger on a deep minty green floral background, the small bees are approximately 1.75” tall.

My Bees in the Honeycomb fabric is an intricately detailed bright yellow, orange, and red honeycomb design with hovering bees, segmented flower parts and a nod to bees amazing, geometrical skills with a bit of mathematical graphics. 

I also designed a coordinating Honeycomb border print, that is predominantly honeycomb with a wavy hexagonal edge along a row of large bees. The fun thing about this design is the fabric changes depending on the type of fabric you have it printed on.

If you buy the Petal Signature cotton that is 42” wide there will be one row of bees along the border, and if you buy the 56” wide cotton sateen you will have 4 rows of large bees along the border. Personally, I always buy the cotton sateen, it feels more like a fine pima cotton with a nice drape. The Petal Signature cotton is heavier, and I’ve noticed the color isn’t quite as saturated and bright.

The final fabric in this collection is Bee Hive Botanical that has patches of honey comb surrounded by an elegant entwined floral vine that creates a repeating medallion design.

But wait there’s more!

I know, I was on quite the rampage, and I had spoondollars (my commissions) from mask sales that helped fund my designing frenzy.

These next two fabrics are inspired by the modern quilt aesthetic, and are designed using my hand painted and printed fabrics that I teach people to make in my Paint and Print-a palooza workshop.

Raindrops Keep Falling in My Head

Diamonds in My Eyes is a print you can use like cheater cloth, and show off your free motion quilting skills. 😁

Now the best news is Spoonflower just happens to have a 15% off sale on essential cottons today!!!

Keep creating,

Judy

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ABOUT JUDY
Judy is an artist, explorer, image wrangler, knowledge seeker, instructor, speaker, creative alchemist, and purveyor of inspiration, helping others channel creativity on a daily basis.