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.
Digital Fabric Tutorial: Taking your design up a notch
I posted a tutorial last week to make your own Valentines hearts design. Today I want to talk about how you can take this basic design and make it better. In the original design tutorial, [read more...]
Digital Design Tutorial: Painted Valentine’s Hearts Repeat
Usually I write tutorials with fabric in mind, and although this would make very cute fabric, I have an idea for something a little different with this one. Making the Hearts To start this design, I [read more...]
30 Second Photoshop Tutorial: Using Guidelines
The guideline tool in Photoshop is another great 30 second tutorial opportunity. I will revisit the "Dogs Chasing Squirrels" damask design that I have been working on to show you how to use guidelines. Those bright cyan colored [read more...]
30 Second Photoshop Tutorial: Copy with Move + Option Key
It takes some time to put together a really good tutorial for a project or design, but there are some great techniques that only take a few seconds to explain. This is one I use all [read more...]
Design-your-own-Fabric Tutorial: Making Wings
For Halloween, my niece wanted to be a butterfly fairy. Her talented mama made the fancy princess dress, but I was asked to help with the fairy wings. We thought it would be the most [read more...]
Photo Cheater Quilt: A tutorial in 6 parts
I put together a really fun digital fabric quilt project using a collection of rainbow-hued photographs. The finished quilt gets lots of "oohs and aaaahs" when I bring it to class as a sample. Spoonflower [read more...]