spoonflower fabric // hexagon tinies sampler

When I shared that I made some fabric featuring my Hexagon Tinies, you all were so kind and supportive! You also told me that it would be helpful to you if you could purchase a sampler with a bunch of the designs on one piece.

It look me two months, but finally, the sampler is available for purchase!




With the 1-yard sampler, you can order one yard and receive 25 prints. Each print measures a little over 7x8 inches. They are just right for small-ish patchwork, and definitely just what you need for English paper piecing.

Ordering a full yard is the most economical way to order from Spoonflower, so I'm happy to make this option available to you.

Find the Hexagon Tinies 1-Yard Sampler Here.

new spoonflower fabric // hexagon tinies

The more that my 10-year-old sister gets into crafting, the more she takes notice of the things that I work on. The other day she discovered that making things is actually my job (as in, I get paid to do this!). Then yesterday she looked at the new fabric I just ordered.

My sister: Why does this fabric have faces on it?
Me: Because I designed it.
My sister: How did you do that?

The discussion faded away, but I just know that she is now thinking about what this means for her. I’m fully expecting special fabric requests soon.

All of this to say, I designed some new Spoonflower fabric, and it’s officially available for anyone to purchase. Hooray!




The collection came about because I was thinking about how great it would be to have some super cute kawaii low-volume fabric. I never seem to choose low-volume when stash-building, and when I do, it’s usually pretty basic.

Then it occurred to me that I could design my own! So I started with the Hexagon Tinies that I designed in June. And since I entirely agree with Stacey’s Cute Tip that making things rainbow is cute, I chose a rainbow palette.

And there’s some gray in there too for a nice neutral low-volume. The houses are my favorite!




I scaled all of the prints so they could be fussy cut to fit on 1-inch hexagons…some will fit smaller hexies! And if you’re going to use prints like these to make EPP hexagons, why not have some of the designs actually be EPP hexagons?

Again, these are each in a single color, but with a rainbow of color choices.




And while we’re talking rainbows, I HAD to make the rainbow into a mini collection of its own. The full color version reminds me of fabrics from my childhood.

Is it strange to have single-color rainbows? Maybe. But even if it’s in all blue or yellow or gray, it still looks like a rainbow, and that seemed like it could be useful to me. Actually, on all of the gray prints, I think you could stitch over the lines like a pre-printed pattern.

The samples that I had printed are on Kona cotton, so for the most part, Kona's basic white is the color you have for the fabric…just with a bit of color for the designs. I’m pretty smitten with these swatches!



Now, here’s where I need your help!

If you were to order these fabrics, would you be most likely to…

A) Order fat quarters or yardage of individual prints as needed? (You can already do this!)
B) Order a yard that has a small sample of every print?
C) Order a fat quarter or yardage that has a sample of a particular print (i.e. hexagons)?
D) Order a fat quarter or yardage of a particular color (i.e all the reds)?

I’d love to make it easier for folks to buy more than one design. Buying a yard at $19.00 (and getting several designs), rather than than buying separate fat quarters, is more cost effective for you. But to make special panels available, I need to order them first and I want to have options that you want!

See all of my Spoonflower fabric here.

Notes on color: I tried to have these photos come as close to the fabric as possible, but all computer monitors are different. Also, take notice that in the rainbow collection, other than the red, the colors are deeper than the other fabrics while still coordinating.

project: halloween plush from spoonflower

You guys know about Spoonflower, right? I've had more than a couple designs printed through them, and ya know what? They're amazing. There's really something so very fun about having your own illustrations printed on fabric. And making these Halloween plus reminded me of that all over again.



When I designed this fabric panel, I was only going to do the little plush Jordöts as a fat quarter, and then on a whim I made a large version too. I'm so glad I did! The little guys are really cute, but the big ones are definitely a favorite around here! You can order your own panel to make some for yourself, and it's really easy. There are instructions on the print, but in case you want a few extra visuals, here's what making a Jordnöt looks like!



Cut out the front and back pieces, then pin them with right sides together.



Sew around the entire shape, leaving an opening to turn it right side out. (Confession: I'm terrible at judging the opening size and am always struggling to turn things!) Clip the curves, but be sure you don't clip the seams.



Turn the Jordnöt right side out, then fill it with stuffing. For the small version you see here, I didn't stuff it as full as the larger one. I think I prefer the firmer, extra stuffing look, but that's up to you.



Sew the opening closed with ladder stitch, and you'll hardly see it!




You've got a new little peanut-shaped Halloween friend. Now, just repeat this for the rest of the characters and you'll be practically be throwing a monster mash!

If you do want to make some Jordnots (Swedish for peanuts...sort of!), you'll want to order fabric soon to get your fabric in time to stitch them up for Halloween!

I love these so much that I'm already thinking that I need to make more panels like this. Any requests for Wild Olive sorts of things that you'd like to sew into pillow plush?

new halloween fabric from spoonflower

A few years ago, I designed some fabric for a Spoonflower Halloween contest. It didn't place in the top 10, and I just wasn't sure if I needed any for myself, so the designs sat in waiting. This year, on a whim, I started looking at them again, making some changes, and thinking I needed to print a swatch. But I couldn't decide between the yellow or the purple background.

I went to Twitter, and the response was mixed, with enough people saying "BOTH!" that I went for both. And then something happened and I did a bunch of other designs. My printed samples arrived last night, and I'm so very happy with them. Take a look at the collection on Spoonflower (now available for purchase!) and scroll through the photos that I snapped as soon as I had light this morning!






That white candy corn swatch is one of my favorites. But then there's these panels. A fat quarter includes the four characters ready to be sewn into little pillow plush!






And if little pillow plush are cute, big pillows suitable for your Halloween home decorating are even better, right? For these, you need to buy a full yard, which will make four pillows, each about 13 inches tall!

I can't wait to stitch up a set! As soon as I do, you'll be sure to see them here. If you want to make something for Halloween, now's the time to order, since it can take up to 2 weeks for freshly printed fabric to arrive from Spoonflower. But totally worth the wait!

Jordnöts Halloween on Spoonflower

By the way, I call them Jordnöts, because that's Swedish for peanuts (with a strange plurality for my Swedish-speaking friends...I'm going for cute here!), and they are peanut shaped characters. I love 'em!

vote for the solar system

As if I needed more to do this week, I decided that I NEEDED to enter the Spoonflower bunting design contest. I had a number of ideas, and the ones that I didn't create and enter may still come to be. In the end, I settled on making a Solar System banner, which you can make and display with all of the planets in order!

The contest is underway today, and I would love, love, love it if you would go and vote for my design.

Oh, and once I get the banner fabric that I ordered, and make one for myself, I'll be sure to show you all here! We've been coming up with a bunch of ideas for how you could use this out-of-this-world panel! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself...)