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We are finally getting to the end of our Spoonflower development series for all of you (and me!) that may need a “jump start” to making some awesome fabric designs. Please check out the beginning of my series as well. Today we are going to explore GIMP a little bit and finally upload our file to Spoonflower for printing. At this point we have already gone through these processes: Thinking About And Creating Your Design Computer Art Programs And What They Do Getting To Know Inkscape, A Vector...
posted @ Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:15 AM |
I received my yard of colors! Here is Esther showing them off. She couldn’t resist dancing with the colors in the yard. Each color block has the corresponding number to it. So the idea is to work directly from this color “swatch” because we know that Spoonflower is able to print these colors. By doing this you shouldn’t have any surprises when you open your fabric package. I also received my bird swatch and I was very pleased. The colors were exactly as I projected. For those...
posted @ Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:24 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 |
Hello everyone! I’m excited about this post. We are going to continue along with our fabric development with the end goal of our “swatch” being uploaded to Spoonflower, a new fabric printing company. If you have missed Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, please check them out! This is all about creative FUN! For those of you who have been following this series and have designed something along-side of us, I’d love to see your art! Email me at: info@mammamadedesigns.com and I’d be glad to share your creations with everyone! To pick up where we left...
posted @ Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:03 PM |
Well, folks! Hope you are all ready to get moving on our project! For those of you who are just joining us, you may want to read Part 1 and Part 2 in this fabric development series first. Today is the day that we transfer our “sketch” to our vector art program, Inkscape. First you will want to take a picture of your sketch with your digital camera and upload it to your computer. Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect, it will only be a guide for you anyway. This time I’m going to use this inspiration lion sketch...
posted @ Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:54 PM |
Welcome back for Part 2 of my series in fabric development! Back for more, eh? Today I’m going to talk about Computer Art Programs available for people just like you and me. There are so many things to think about and cover for something like this; the only way I can really even begin to touch on it, is to just bring you through the process the way that I go about it. That of course is not to say that other ways are wrong…(smile)…I’m just remembering how my sister Megan always says that I...
posted @ Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:54 PM |
So, I know everyone probably knows how excited I am about Spoonflower, a new company that will print out YOUR fabric design on high quality 100% Kona cotton. The question at hand for people like us is, “How on earth do I get to the end result of receiving my lovely creation and being extremely happy with the outcome?” What a great question! Let’s go through this designing/creating/editing/uploading process together to get to our FINAL swatch to upload to the amazing creators of Spoonflower. There are a lot...
posted @ Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:08 AM |