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Creating Your Own Plaids in Photoshop Elements
A plaid, or Tartan, pattern consists of criss-crossing bands of different color threads in the lengthwise (warp) and crosswise (weft) orientations. The distinctive diagonal lines in plaids are...
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Hawaiian Cheater Quilt Fabric Design
Each week Spoonflower sponsors a fabric design contest using different themes. (Spoonflower is an on-demand fabric printing company where you can upload your own designs and have them printed on...
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Fun Daisies Fabric Collection
I entered another of Spoonflower’s weekly fabric contests. This one called for a one-yard image that included four distinct coordinating fabric designs, including at least one stripe pattern and one...
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Painted Daisies, Take 1
Another week, another fabric design challenge… Spoonflower and Robert Kaufman Fabrics are sponsoring the Fabric8 contest. The challenge is to create a modern fabric design that evokes the style of...
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Painted Daisies, Take 2
I played around some more with my Painted Daisies design, done for the Fabric8 Contest at Spoonflower. Here was the previous version. While I like the colors, the design seems boring. I decided to...
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Creating the Fabric Designs for “Urban Sunset”
When I created this fabric design for a contest at Spoonflower, I knew I wanted to expand on the idea and design some fabric to make a quilt. In an earlier post, I talked about my initial efforts. I...
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Pointy Pink Plaid and Illustrator CS6′s New Pattern Function
I’ve been learning to use Adobe Illustrator to create repeating designs for fabric (here’s an example, and another one). There’s a new version of Illustrator (CS6) which has a new feature allowing you...
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Watercolor Coneflowers
Watercolor Coneflowers is my quilt for the Fall 2012 Blogger’s Quilt Festival. It’s a small art quilt that I’ve been working on to donate to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (which has already...
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Creating the Quilt Top for “Urban Sunset”
In this earlier post I talked about creating the fabric I used in my quilt Urban Sunset. My original plan was to use the fabric as-is and create several whole cloth quilts. However, the more I looked...
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