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.
Fabric Design Tutorial: Photo Collage Bonus Mashup
I posted a tutorial just a few days ago showing how to create a "scrapbook style" fabric design from a collection of photos. You can think of this post a variation on that theme. It's a different [read more...]
Fabric Design Tutorial: Create a “Mini Photo Scrapbook” Fabric Design
I am going to call this tutorial the first in what I hope will be a series of “Suggestion Box Tutorials”. I got an email from a woman this morning asking for help designing a [read more...]
Tutorial: Color schemes from photos & using Creative Cloud Libraries
I write a newsletter for the MN chapter of the Surface Design Association and each month I include a color scheme for inspiration. I know color is a hard thing for a lot of people. [read more...]
How do I repost in Instagram? A tutorial
I have had an Instagram account for a while, but I just wasn't using it. One of my goals for this spring was to dust off that account and start finding ways to use it and [read more...]
Dyeing Wool Yarn with Easter Egg Dye (A tutorial)
When you are an artist, nearly everything has the potential to be an art material. We dyed some easter eggs on Saturday and there was some leftover dye. Which was obviously a great excuse to [read more...]
Three Ways to make a NEW Etsy Banner using PicMonkey (A tutorial)
Etsy is rolling out a whole new look for your shop in a couple of weeks. I will admit to some initial grumbling myself and thinking "now I have to redesign everything", but I actually [read more...]