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Pantone Colors of the Year 2021

Pantone announced their 2021 color for the year today and it turned out to be not one but two colors, Illuminating and Ultimate Gray.

Illuminating is a sunny bright yellow and Ultimate Gray is to me a downright boring gray … or grey , depending on which side of the pond you live on.

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They remind me of the color combination you get with a hard boiled egg ..that little gray line the outlines the yolk.

The thought process from Pantone is that the yellow is for optimism and the gray is for dependability and sort of reflects the mood moving forward in 2021 and hopefully away from Covid and all the mess it has created.

Maybe I was ahead of the curve as I was using a very similar color paring back in 2017 with the create of my first fabric collection: contemporary circles

I have created a new collection on my spoonflower and RedBubble shops in celebration of the 2021 Colors of the year – only the two solids and a one design so far but I will be adding more patterns shortly!

Shop collection on

Spoonflower | Redbubble

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One Line Birds- Continuous Line Contour Design

This weeks Spoonflower challenge calls for a repeat design created using a single unbroken line which captures movement- Continuous Line Contour

That. I can tell you, is quite a challenge!

My mind immediately went to something flying through the air and I revisited the design I had created for The Artistic Voice challenge and played around with it for quite some time to turn in into a design made from a continuous line.

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Blue Boho Spiralize Wallpaper

Blue Boho Spiralize Wallpaper

One of my favorites ways to use wallpaper is on the back wall of a bookcase or shelf unit so I was excited to see the Spoonflower design challenge this week. The prompt was to design a wallpaper specifically to as a backdrop in a DreamBox. A Dreambox is the ultimate storage and work area for craft projects.

My approach was to design something interesting to look at but not compete with whatever supplies are going to be adorning the shelves. In my experience craft supplies have enough going so I opted for a restful monotone blue design and Blue Boho Spiralize was born.

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Blue Boho Spiralize Wallpaper
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Inch Worms Fabric Design

I have had extra time this week to come up with a design for the upcoming Spoonflower challenge – Microscopic world which prompted a design illustrating hidden world we never knew existed.

I played around with virus, fairies and nothing really floated my boat until I started drawing tiny little inch worms. I have named my design Creative Inchi Worms – a riff on my Spoonflower screen name “Creativeinch”

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What a fun design to use in kids decor!

creative inchi worms - inch worm pattern design

Voting starts Thanksgiving day – 26th November

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Backyard Winter Birds Tea Towel Design

I get so much pleasure from watching the birds visit the bird feeder in my garden. Yes it may cause a mess and attracts pesky squirrels and chipmunks but it is worth it!

I came up with two designs for Backyard Winter Birds Tea Towel Spoonflower challenge this week and ummed and arred about which one to enter.

I decided to go with this one.

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winter birds and berries tea towel

This was the other design I came up with.

Looking at them both I don’t know if I have made the right choice on which one to enter… as I write this there is still time to do a switcharoo.

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Update

Came in 15th out of 634 entries and received 210 votes!

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