Saturday, June 27, 2009

"Bees" Fabric Swatches


"Bees" Fabric Swatches
Originally uploaded by Carolynchip
Did you know you can design your own fabric over at Spoonflower? When I stumbled upon this knowledge I thought I'd died and went to creative heaven!!! Imagine the possibilites! Makes my head spin just thinking about it!

The only thing is it's not exactly cheap, but OMG: I CAN PUT MY OWN DESIGNS ON FABRIC!!!

When my swatches arrived I literally tore open the envelope... they came out great. I can add exclusive fabric to my etsy shop, and yes, there is a market for this, even though it's a bit pricey. I am so excited!

The bee's came out super cute...but these are 8x8 swatches and I'm wondering if they would look better small and repeated more frequently... do you know what I mean? Let me know what you think...

4 comments:

mary jane said...

that is SO cool! thanks for sharing that! off to design my own fabric now!
xo
mary jane

Jennifer Williams "Blueskysunburn" said...

These are cool! I think the larger bees are okay. Then again, I think smaller more frequent bees would look okay too. This could be a cool little niche for you.

Oh hey, I wanted to ask...I'm making a blog roll with blog buttons instead of links. Do you have a button 150 x 150 you can send me? If not, I've just been working with people's headers and adding their info.

Teresa said...

That is a very cool discovery, indeed. (Thinking of alpacas pronking across fabric!)
I would like your fabric as is for bigger projects - curtains, bed spread - but for smaller items - toddler clothes, for example - smaller bees might be cuter. Maybe both for coordinating items!
Got to go check out spoonflower!

Melissa and Emmitt said...

hi carolyn!
oh! i LOVE your fabric swatches! the bees are wonderful!
great work!
thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. it is so nice to meet you!

:) melissa