Watercolor is my Favorite! Spoonflower gave us a lot of freedom in this challenge. Basically, they just gave us instructions to build a fabric design around one of your favorite things. I’d say painting floral watercolors is absolutely one of my favorite things. Thus, I took a favorite painting and made a repeating pattern out…
Category: Fabric
Cardamom Sourdough Monkey Bread
& the Fika Spoonflower Design Challenge A new week and a new design challenge! This one made me drool (hence the sourdough monkey bread recipe card you’ll find in this post). Fika is a Swedish word for ”a coffee break with friends.” Books have been written on the concept! For a proper fika experience, you…
Otherworldly Botanicals Design Challenge
Process I painted these abstract florals a while ago and turned them into a repeating pattern. I thought they fit the “otherworldly” brief pretty well, and as we started up school again this week, I’ve been a little short on time! We’ll see how it does. If you like to vote, remember you can vote…
Victorian-Era Florals Spoonflower Challenge
My entry for the this week’s Victorian-Era Florals Spoonflower Challenge. I love a floral challenge, as it gives me an excuse to pull out the watercolors. I spent one afternoon looking up the Victorian Flower Language, picking, and painting flowers I thought were lovely. Side note: why don’t we all learn the language of flowers…
Birding Spoonflower Design Challenge
This design took me ten hours! It’s definitely a personal record for hours invested in a Spoonflower design challenge. First, I painted the Lilac-breasted Roller, a gorgeous bird from Africa. Then I painted all the botanical elements. Lastly, I combined everything in the illustration app Procreate on my iPad. That alone took 6 hours! Here’s…
Granny Square Spoonflower Design Challenge
Each week, the print-on-demand website, Spoonflower, holds a design contest. I like to enter when when I have inspiration! This week was rather fun, as the theme was vintage granny square crochet quilts. My grandmas were both known to crochet, so this felt nostalgic. I got to work on my iPad, drawing designs til i…