Spoonflower Contest – Mythical Creature Plushie

There were a lot of entries (324!) to last week’s Sheep themed Spoonflower contest – Viriginia O’s Night, Night Sleep Tight was a lovely winning design, beautifully drawn and I liked the simple colour palette of white lines on a blue/ grey background.  My design came 94th with 118 votes – thank you to anyone who voted for it!  You can see all the entries here.

This week’s challenge was to create a cut and sew pattern to make a plush mythical creature toy.  The pattern and instructions all had to fit on a fat quarter of linen-cotton canvas.  Although I have sewn little toys before I had never designed a pattern like this, so I was looking forward to the challenge of something new!  It was tempting to try and make a three dimensional creature, but with time constraints I thought I should keep the design as simple as possible.  I chose a dragon as my mythical creature and designed it with a front and back body piece and 2 wing pieces to be sewn onto the back piece.

Once I have a sample printed I will show you how it looks made up, then can start offering the fabric for sale in my Spoonflower shop.

You can see all of the entries to the Mythical Creature Plushie Pattern contest here, and vote for your favourites too!  http://www.spoonflower.com/contests/290

Ditsy Sheep Spoonflower Contest

To celebrate the Year of the Sheep and Chinese New Year, this week’s Spoonflower contest theme is ‘Ditsy Sheep’.  The brief this time was to create a small scale design featuring sheep and with a non-directional repeat.  My design was inspired by spring time, so my little sheep are surrounded by spring flowers.  I hope you like it!

You can see all the other entries, and vote for your favourites here: http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=290

Steampunk Valentine Contest Results

Yesterday I had some very exciting news – my Steampunk Valentine design came in the top ten in this week’s Spoonflower contest!!  The photo above is from Spoonflower and shows my design printed on fabric.  I’m so grateful for all the votes and comments this design received.  You can see the results list with all the entries on the the Spoonflower blog here.  My design came 8th out of 247 entries (with 427 votes) and it’s the first time one of my designs has been in the top ten :D

The winning design featured octopuses, gears and hearts and was designed by Francesca Besso.  I really loved her design and it was my favourite entry to the contest – a well deserved winner!

The top ten designs are available to buy as a fat quarter bundle printed on Kona cotton from Spoonflower or you can buy my design separately, on a range of fabrics, from my shop http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/3918760

I would love to see what people make with this fabric – so if you buy any please feel free to send me your photos!

Spoonflower Contest – Steampunk Valentine

Last week’s Spoonflower ‘Rockets’ themed contest had so many great entries! The winner was a retro style design – you can see it here along with all the other entries.  My design came 44th out of 255 entries (with 175 votes) – thank you to everyone who voted for my design! :)

This week’s contest is a little different as Spoonflower have teamed up with Urban Threads for a Steampunk Valentine theme.  The brief was to create a fabric design (previewed at the fat quarter size) with an element that can be adapted for an embroidery pattern.  This is what I came up with:

I have drawn lots of keys and cogs as part of my past Steampunk / Hexley designs and I wanted to combine these ideas with some more decorative elements so added the swirls and flourishes to Steampunk style hearts.  I used a colour scheme similar to some of my other cog / key fabric designs as I liked the way those colours looked printed on fabric but also added the ruby red.

You can see all of the other entries to the Steampunk Valentine contest here, and vote for your favourites too: http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=289