I have been experimenting with images and ideas at
Spoonflower for quite awhile now. I finally decided to order some 8x8 swatches to see what they would look like in real life. I have received them and I think they look pretty good. I like taking pictures of interesting things I see outside and seeing what I can do with them. I think they have potential for lots of things such as digital scrap booking, embroidery, and now fabric design. And Spoonflower now lets you tile your images in 4 different ways. I especially like the mirror tiling.
This is one of the pictures I started with. It is looking up at a winter tree.
For this one I actually made a tile using
Inkscape. Then I just used the basic repeat.
The next picture is of some dead plants that grew on a chain link fence, and their fluffy seeds.
I just uploaded the picture,made it smaller using Piknik right from the Spoonflower site, then used the mirror repeat. This is how the next 2 were done as well.
Snow, ice, rocks, and a piece of dead plant.
And the resulting fabric.
Dirty windblown snow.
I love how a picture that isn't necessarily the prettiest picture, can turn into a beautiful kalediscope type image. Basically, if you keep your eye out for interesting shapes and colours, you can make you own lovely fabric.
I have been experimenting with images and ideas at Spoonflower for quite awhile now. I finally decided to order some 8x8 swatches to see what they would look like in real life. I have received them and I think they look pretty good. I like taking pictures of interesting things I see outside and seeing what I can do with them. I think they have potential for lots of things such as digital scrap booking, embroidery, and now fabric design. And Spoonflower now lets you tile your images in 4 different ways. I especially like the mirror tiling.
This is one of the pictures I started with. It is looking up at a winter tree.
The next picture is of some dead plants that grew on a chain link fence, and their fluffy seeds.
I just uploaded the picture,made it smaller using Piknik right from the Spoonflower site, then used the mirror repeat. This is how the next 2 were done as well.
Snow, ice, rocks, and a piece of dead plant.
And the resulting fabric.
Dirty windblown snow.
I love how a picture that isn't necessarily the prettiest picture, can turn into a beautiful kalediscope type image. Basically, if you keep your eye out for interesting shapes and colours, you can make you own lovely fabric.
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3 comments:
Your Spoonflower fabric is really cool! I like that you used pictures of things from nature. I have been daydreaming about making something in Spoonflower but I keep coming to a creative block.
I think pictures are a great way to start. They make great patterns. I have started to design some from drawings, but really all you need is the right picture.
Wow! This is the coolest thing! I've never seen anything like it. Great photos and such a creative mind to think of working with them to do this! :)
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