Flossies Pinafore

I've added a free pattern over there in the side bar. More details and the chance to win a completed pinafore over on Lazy Seamstress.

It's been a while....

Been kinda busy with new baby. These fabrics arrived just a week or two after Ernest made his arrival, but this is the first chance I've had to photograph them.
I have to admit to being slightly dissapointed, the colours are not nearly so bright as I'd hoped, and in some cases not even near the colours I expected, especially the green which came out as an insipid yellow.
I was however fairly happy with the cotton lawn, though a bit dissapointed with the quilting cotton which has changed since my last order with spoonflower, and seems to be more of a creamy colour rather than the white I'd expected.
Anyway, lessons learned, and adjustments to be made.

More Collage Patterns

Sketchbook Day

A quiet day at home with some hand painted papers, a glue stick and a sketch book,very therapeutic, and resulted in a few new repeats. (more to come.)

Thank You

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who voted for my cheater quilt in last weeks Spoonflower contest. I didn't win, but I didn't expect to, there were some lovely entries. You can see the winner here, which I'm not at all surprised won, it's definately my favourite.

I have ordered my design, I'll be making it up into a play quilt when it arrives.

My First Contest

I entered this weeks contest on Spoonflower, Please take a look and vote for your favourites,right here if that's me then great!

More Playing

This time with my Flossie's Pinafore dress pattern, wondering about printing the pattern pieces directly onto the fabric complete with instructions etc, just figuring out the technical stuff and having a play.

A Bit Of Fun

Simple one yard cheaters quilt tops.

Samples Ordered

I couldn't resist ordering samples from Spoonflower today, I've ordered various sized samples on cotton lawn and on quilting weight cotton, and it's fingers crossed now until they arrive and I can see how the colours,the scale and the weight of the fabrics work.

Here is a peek at the collection so far. I don't think this is at all complete, but it's helped me to put the designs together to get an idea of what is missing.

A Couple More Border Prints

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I've had a play uploading these onto Spoonflower, and seeing how they'll look on various widths of fabric. Think I might have another little play about with the scale of the apples and the spacing before ordering yardage though.(swatches are not going to be big enough to help me decide if the designs work or not.)

First Attempt At A Border Print

I think maybe I should have more space between the row of apples and the falling flowers/fruit and leaves. Possibly two rows of apples? Maybe some stripes or some gingham along the bottom edge too.
Something to think on.

A Beginning, ( saying it outloud.)

Sometimes you have to just dive in, sometimes hestitating until everything is just perfect can take a life time.
A while ago I had a short email conversation with a talented designer who told me that sometimes, you just have to "say it outloud".
Inspired by that clever lady, and by some other talented art bloggers here I am, about to scare the poop out of myself by sharing this creative experience with anyone interested enough to follow along.
I have a lot to learn, but I'm not gonna learn anything by simply dreaming, so here goes, the beginnings......













These are not perfect, I have a lot more work to do, but it's a beginning. I think I want to develop the fruit print into a border print with leaves and vines. I also want to experiment with scale, especially with the daisy motif.
I've got to a point where I need to stop playing on the pc (a huge huge learning curve for me, which I'm scared is very apparent.) and get back to some drawing and collage work.

I couldn't resist having a little play with some possible co ordinates though.







Oh and I'm imagining these all printed on cotton lawn , at least I am at the moment.