July 2008 Entries
I love the feel of good quality material. I just do. I confess that the first year my daughter Rosemary went to school, I sewed her school uniforms because I just couldn’t handle spending $45 for a cheap polyester jumper. I would not have had a problem in the least if it was a good quality product though. Cheap fabric just bugs me. So, I confess, I’m a fabric snob. I only use 100% high quality cotton materials in the garments that I sew. If I'm going to take the time and effort, they are definitely going to last through...
posted @ Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:24 PM |
Hi everyone! I’m not giving up on my lion fabric quite yet. I re-worked the colors on my lion fabric because I really want to use it for my upcoming Fall line. Here is what I want the fabric to look like: As those of you who are following this series already know, I received my initial fabric that looks like this: These are the changes I needed to make to my image to have it (hopefully!) printed out the way I want: And this is the dress (maybe!) that could...
posted @ Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:46 PM |
Welcome back everyone to our fabric development series! Today we are going to continue to address the issue of color in regards to Spoonflower uploads. I’ve been hesitant to order more fabric because I want to be at least semi-confident that what I’m receiving is pretty close to what I am designing color-wise in my head. Just to recap quickly-- here is my initial upload and first fabric printing attempt:
Color is extremely important to me. I designed this fabric to be used in my upcoming Fall 08 Mamma Made collection. As you can see, the result is still cute, but...
posted @ Friday, July 18, 2008 3:04 PM |
Well, I can’t believe we’ve made it to Part 5 already! What a long haul! I really hope that this series has been helpful to you. Here is a quick recap: Part One: Thinking About And Beginning Your Design Part Two: Available Computer Art Programs And What They Do Part Three: Digging Into Inkscape, A Vector Art Program Part Four: Continuing Our Fabric Design And Making The Perfect Tile First I’m going to share some artwork from Mary that she sent in to me to share...
posted @ Monday, July 07, 2008 10:00 PM |