Projects & Tutorials
Learn more about designing fabric with Spoonflower, creating graphics for your Etsy shop, and other sewing projects with these free tutorials. Have a question or something you want to learn about designing fabric? Just ask! Some of my favorite tutorials have come from questions asked by readers.
Thank you American Craft Council Show
I hope that a few of you are visiting because you saw me or my work at the American Craft Council show and you wanted to know more! Thanks so much to everyone who [read more...]
Save This Layout and Selling your Spoonflower designs. (I learned something new.)
I've been designing a bunch of tea towels for my Spoonflower shop lately. The September design challenges were all about tea towels and I did a couple of tea towel calendars too. Those kinds [read more...]
Video Tutorial: Combining photos to print at Spoonflower
?? I've had several students ask me this week: "How can I combine a bunch of different things together and print them all on a yard of fabric at Spoonflower? Do I use Fill-A-Yard?" [read more...]
Video Tutorial: Fill-A-Yard Projects with Spoonflower
A quick video tutorial of how to use Spoonflower's Fill-A-Yard feature. Thanks to a student from my online class for the question. If you need a little more help working with collections, be sure [read more...]
Making Paper Mosaics: A video demo
At my last fabric design class, I chatted with my students about how I make paper mosaic designs. I like to design fabrics using original art like paper collage or drawings or paintings. They were [read more...]
Exploring the Black, a dye reference e-book
I was invited to present a talk about dyeing with black to a weaving study group this weekend. They knew that black was a challenging color and wondered if I could provide some tips and [read more...]