Retro Kitchen fabrics by J. Thomson. © 2011 All rights reserved. (more…)
Category Archives: Fabric Design
Fabrics designed by Jay Thomson, available on Spoonflower.com.
Toy Robot cut-n-sew project
I designed this easy-to-sew soft Toy Robot for Spoonflower’s “plushie pattern” contest (my first experience making a soft toy & first time using Sketchup 3D software.) The challenge was to design a soft toy that would fit on one fat quarter of fabric (18″ x 21″). It was a tough challenge to get all the necessary parts and pieces of the Robot to fit, but I finally figured it out without having to reduce the size of the finished piece. When completed, this soft Toy Robot stands over 17″ tall.
| Please vote for my design here (voting is open from August 25th until August 31, 2011 at 6pm Eastern). There are 9 pages of designs, and they are randomized for each voter. You can vote for as many designs as you like, but PLEASE VOTE FOR MINE! You have to go through all 9 pages and click “Save my votes” at the end. if you like it, soon you can purchase the fabric here to make your own! (I’m waiting for the proofs of the printed fabric to arrive.) |
Keep reading for the sewing instructions to make this adorable stuffed Robot. Just purchase one fat quarter of the fabric for each Robot you want to make. [Hint: If you’re making more than one, change the repeat from “centered” to “basic repeat” under layout options when you order the fabric. Then you’ll get FOUR Robots on a single yard of fabric, which is much cheaper than ordering four fat quarters. For the contest, designed MUST be “centered”.) It was designed for the quilting-weight cotton (which is the least expensive fabric Spoonflower offers), but you can print it on other fabrics as well. Read the rest of this entry
Free Fabric Swatch — 24 hours only!
Today is “Free Fabric Swatch” day at Spoonflower.com. That is, until Noon tomorrow (Friday, August 19th, 2011) you can get a single swatch of custom fabric for free, instead of the normal $5.00. Even the postage is free. It can be one of my fabrics, or any other fabric for sale at Spoonflower. It’s a great way to sample the quality of custom fabric printing from Spoonflower.
EDIT: It seems that Spoonflower’s servers have been overwhelmed… the site has been slow all morning, and it just crashed as I clicked “place order”. If this happens to you, just try again later. Hopefully the problem will be sorted out soon. You can also check for updates on Spoonflower’s Facebook page.
EDIT: Spoonflower’s Free Swatch Day was a big success! They gave away 7,300 free swatches of fabric, and also raised $2,500 for Heifer International. Read more about it on the Spoonflower blog here. Read the rest of this entry
Quilted serving tray liner with custom fabric
I made this quilted serving tray liner in less than an hour last night from a fat quarter of my Retro Kitchen custom-designed fabric.
Like this:
Word Game (fabric designs)
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Word Game fabric, © 2011 J. Thomson. All rights reserved. Read the rest of this entry
Retro Kitchen fabrics now for sale
Pen Pals fabric now available for sale
Pen Pals fabric, designed by J. Thomson. © 2011 All rights reserved. (more…)
Retro Holidays fabrics now available for sale
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
Retro Holidays Fabric, © 2011 J. Thomson All rights reserved (more…)
Retro Holidays Apron Project
Retro Holidays Apron Project, by J. Thomson. © 2011 All rights reserved. (more…)
Pen Pals (fabric design)
Pen Pals fabric, by J. Thomson. © 2011 All rights reserved. (more…)
Like this:
Retro Holidays (Fabric Designs)
Retro Holidays Fabric, © 2011 J. Thomson All rights reserved
(UPDATE 7/28/11) Two new Retro Holidays-themed fabrics I designed are now available at Spoonflower.com. (I also have matching gifts, stationery, cards, invitations, envelopes, and binders at Zazzle.) Perfect for all your holiday sewing projects! (I plan to create cut-n-sew projects based on this pattern—a Christmas tree skirt, and stockings to hang. The challenge is getting a complete project to fit on one yard of fabric.)
The design shown above was my most complicated design yet to create, due to all of the layers. It is 100% created from scratch, and even the background (shown below) is a repeating pattern, so there will be no seams in the pattern on the final fabric. I drew each of the different ornaments by hand, and created a repeating pattern from them shown above.
These two coordinating fabrics would make cute table runners, napkins, Christmas stockings, tree skirts, holiday aprons, hanging banners and decorations, and more.
Retro Holidays Background fabric, by J. Thomson. © 2011 All rights reserved.
