New Fabric Swatches

First of all I thought I would tell you that my website linsart will be closing down in a few days so if you wanted to take a look before it goes, now is your chance. 

I will be keeping my blogs, flickr, pinterest etc

My new swatches have arrived from Spoonflower.

I created this design on my tablet.

The following two are older designs and they are both border prints.

first, the swatch. I used fabric to create this design which was screen printed

and this is what the full design looks like

another swatch

and the full design

The fabrics are available to purchase from Spoonflower

Latest Fabric Swatches

Here are my new 15 fabric swatches from Spoonflower.

Quite a few people liked the tea-towel design that I did, so I thought I would do a fabric without the calendar. The colours have come out a bit different, the birds don't stand out as much, it could be the fabric [I ordered Kona cotton this time].

I did another design using just the birds - all in a jumble.

And one with leaves and background without birds.

This one was for the resolutions contest. The words were created by hand with pens. I used stencils and stamps for some of them.

There was a mitten contest, although I didn't enter with this one.

This one was designed for a cheater quilt contest

And some of the fabrics are available as separate yardage in a bigger scale

The honesty plant was inspiration for this fabric

And this one was inspired by the colours on an autumn tree

Bee eater birds were the inspiration behind the next two

I was working on a floral idea for a border print for this one, although this one is part of a full repeating pattern and not a border pattern

All fabrics available at Spoonflower

The bird and leaf designs can be found here

The cheater quilt fabrics

Autumn Trees can be found in the tree collection

Floral designs are here

Bee Eater fabrics

New Year resolutions is in the miscellaneous collection

Recycled Printed Wipes

The other day I spent some time experimenting with some recycled face wipes I'd been saving. After washing them I put them in a bath of tea, but they just looked a bit drab so I thought I would print on them. I used some old screen printing paints, some heavy bodied A>2 chroma acrylics, and ordinary acrylics. The pattern was made on the top four by laying the wipe on a wallpaper texture plate. [textured wallpaper stuck to a thick card/wood base]. If it didn't look to good I went over it with another colour.

The leaf designs below were made with a shop bought plastic texture plate.

and the squiggles too

the bottom two - the lines were made using corrugated card then a flower stamp on top. The wavy lines below - this was a hand made stamp from fun foam stuck to polystyrene.

Now what shall I do with them?