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.
Tutorial: Make a valentine cut-out design
Since Valentines Day is just around the corner, I thought I would post a quick tutorial for making a heart shaped cut out design. You can use any image or pattern and "cut it out" [read more...]
Try it: Spoonflower’s Fill-a-Yard tool and 8-bit Art
Spoonflower has a new Fill-A-Yard tool. It's very simple to use. Create a collection of fabrics. Choose a template (this is 1 yard with 6 inch squares). Click the fabric you want from the thumbnails [read more...]
Fabric Design for Back to School: Pop Art Shoe Bag Tutorial
When you live in Minnesota, "Back-to-School Season" is quickly followed by "Snowboots Season". When I asked my sister what she thought would be a great back-to-school project to share with the Spoonflower Back to School [read more...]
Using Adobe Capture for Fabric Design
This tutorial comes to you via an email I received. This seemed like the kind of question that would make a great tutorial. I love the patterns that I’ve created using Adobe Capture and I can [read more...]
An introvert’s guide to surviving an art show
A friend posted a comment on something I wrote on Facebook: I want to have a booth at a show, but I am nervous that I will not be charming enough. Any tips for being [read more...]
Three Minute Tutorial: Clipping Mask in Illustrator
In my previous post, I talked about cutting out the armadillo armor shape from a paint texture and I wanted to dig in a little bit to how that actually works because it is a really [read more...]