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Can you believe that winter is fast approaching? The temperatures are dropping day by day and I find myself more and more inclined to hibernate in bed! Today happened to be especially rainy and stormy with massive winds battering everything outside. Scary! I am snuggling indoors, thankful that the internet allows me to connect with you folks despite the weather and distance.
This weather also makes me pretty lazy and groggy feeling and real work assignments are starting to pile up! However, I seem to have no issues working on creative distractions, such as the doll panel fabric design for the latest Spoonflower theme. I have seen many cute girl doll designs and matrioska doll panels, so really wanted to go in a different direction for my design. I thought it would be nice to create something for a little boy and have been tending towards eyes closed, mouth open type of faces. I designed a singing doll boy, winter themed and although it is compact enough to be cut to exact shape, I added the snowflake background so I can make a doll/pillow. What do you think? Bit blurry in this graphics but you can also see it within the spoonflower designs.
I still have to learn a bit more regarding colors printed on fabric, because many times the swatches arrive looking quite different from the intended design colors. Either way it is exciting to be able to create your own fabric designs and get them printed. I will be testing this design out and making little pillows for a plushie show this December as well. BTW, did you know Spoonflower now allows you to buy fabric direct from their website? A whole new world of fabric designs, so cool. I just put up my birdies pattern for sale here.
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 3:45 pm | designs, patterns
Hello fellow explorers and creative minds! My name is Linda, aka tortagialla - a nickname my adorable husband dubbed me meaning "yellow cake" in Italian. I'm your not-so-typical Californian girl who took the plunge and moved to the Tuscan hills of Italy. Now I'm living my dream designing, illustrating and crafting full-time. You can contact me via email linda [!at] tortagialla [!dot] com
That is so exciting that Spoonflower has opened up the market now! Your Singing Doll Boy is very cute, nice job! Perfect for the holidays!
Thanks so much! I was just excited to print my own designs…but now to be able to sell them is pretty darn cool as well!
Hi Linda!
Hope the bad weather is going by fast. I love the prints and I think it would look great on fabric. Do you use Pantone Colors? Maybe it can help you better matching the colors with the actual print.
Hi Sarah – Thanks for the tip on Pantone…totally didn’t think about that. I’m not sure Spoonflower actually prints per pantone…but perhaps it would match up more anyway…hmm…must try!
Linda- it is perfect for the holidays. The only good thing about bad weather is more time in the studio.) At least that is what I am telling myself as the snow has shown itself a tiny bit already here.)
Oh I agree! Cold weather means snuggling at home and all those cozy feelings…hot chocolate. So many things to turn to…hehe!
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I feel the cold of these singers!