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.
Video: A skirt in 3 minutes
I spend so much of my time behind a computer screen that it is hard to show "behind the scenes" shots of what I do. And I know that people love to see works in [read more...]
Design Tutorial: Creating a layered design
Often when I teach an intro fabric design class, the students and I create a collaborative fabric design during class, which I have printed and mail to them after class. This most recent class played [read more...]
Video Tutorial: Origami collapsing box
In honor of Uncle Lester. This origami box was in a book that Lester gave my dad. My sister and I loved the book when we were kids and had to be very respectful and [read more...]
Sometimes the best tutorial has no words
I had a vast quantity of tiny rolled hems to do this week. The project is something I can't really share yet, but I can talk about rolled hems and what I learned. So I [read more...]
Digital Design Tutorial: Part Six
Part six of our faux batik journey takes us back to Photoshop. I have all of the motifs for my faux batik laid out, I have my color palette chosen, so now it's time to [read more...]
Digital Design Tutorial: Faux Batik Part Five
Today is all about color! Now that I have most of my design laid out, I want to start to think about the colorway for this fabric. The colorway is the set of colors I [read more...]