My Custom Fabric

Yay!!! I got my Spoonflower fabric swatch!

And I am super-happy I went ahead and ordered a swatch to try it out. For one thing, the silk crepe de chine fabric is exactly what I was hoping for. My print, although I do like it, I think needs to be scaled a little smaller before I order yardage. I also might mute the orange a bit so it doesn't look quite so halloween. Even though it's paired with navy, the dots sort of read as black from a distance. And yes, my high school colors were orange and black, so I try to stray from that combo. I'm thinking something more like Pantone's fall color Emberglow...What do you think?

Have you ever had your own fabric printed???

Custom Fabric

Have you guys heard of Spoonflower?

It is a site where you can upload your own custom fabric design and have it printed. Basically a designer or sewer's dream! Very Project Runway...I have wanted to try it out for quite a while, but was chicken to spend the money without knowing how it would turn out. Well I went to check it out again this week, and stumbled upon Free Swatch Day....yes! It just happens to start today at noon :)

I had the idea to do a funky polka dot pattern for my first one, so I made this pattern up in Photoshop. Not groundbreaking, I know lol.

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When I uploaded it to the site, I wasn't a fan of how the repeat turned out. I'm not sure how I would need to do the edges to make it seamless, so I went back in and modified it for more of a random look:

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I'm happy how this one turned out, so I think I'm going to order a swatch and see how it looks printed :)