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winter birds and berries tea towel

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.

winter birds and berries pattern design
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.

Update

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

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Eggtastic: Kitchen Wisdom Tea Towel

This weeks Spoonflower challenge was to come up with a tea towel which imparted some kitchen wisdom.

Boiling the perfect egg depends on how you like your eggs and I came up with this design : Eggtastic . I plan to use old clucky the chicken in a repeat pattern design

eggtastic kitchen wisdom tea towel
eggtastic tea towel

Now the funny thing is, is that I don’t like eggs, never have and never will. It’s such a shame as they are a perfect food. I can eat them in a quiche but scrambled, boiled, fried or poached them they are a no go!

But don’t let that stop you voting for my Eggtastic Tea towel!

Update

Winner, winner chicken dinner, I placed 4th!

winner winner chicken dinner

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2021 tea towel design

2021 Tea Towel Design

This is my first time designing a tea towel and what fun it was. The Spoonflower design challenge this week is to come up with a 2021 calendar which will be printed as a tea towel.

I have been mucking about with Prairie themed designs and little prairie dogs dilly dallying around in a beautiful floral landscape seemed a perfect way to banish an awkward 2020 and welcome in a fresh new year.

2021 teatowel calendar
2021 teatowel calendar on the prairie

Voting stats Thursday – go on you know you want to vote!

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prairie birds seed heads pattern

Prairie Birds and Seed Heads

This week’s Spoonflower design challenge mark the 500th challenge for them and this week there is no design prompt but they want designer to submit a design which showcases their artistic voice and their only guideline is “Be True to Yourself”

The prizes are bigger and juicier than usual so it is game on! Having had 6 top ten placements in the contests since April I am really out to get one of those coveted top three places!

So many of the patterns I create are inspired by nature and my habitat restoration volunteer work on a local Prairie has exposed me to the wonders of grasses and this time of year, drop dead gorgeous seed heads. There are always birds fluttering around pecking at the seeds.

Prairie Birds and Seed heads was born

The design really encompasses my artistic voice. It combines both natural and whimsical elements and tells a simple story.

I am a real sucker for a blue and white color palette so it was no surprise that for a design that completely embodies my artistic voice ended up as blue and white!

prairie birds seed heads pattern
prairie birds seed heads pattern on pillow

I can’t tell you how thrilled I would be if you give me a vote. There are likely to be more than a 1000 entries in this competition and finding a particular design on a page is quite a challenge. The designs are loaded in a random order but there is a little trick you can use to speed things up.

Once you visit the link below use Page Down on you keyboard or scroll away right to the very bottom of the page. Then use a Find on Page function which is ctrl F on a PC or Command+F on a Mac. If you are on a tablet of phone you can use a “Find on Page” function. Search for Creativeinchi and the design will pop right up!

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Christmas Pattern

Getting my head around baubles and fairy lights is quite something when it is still 90 deg F outside and I am wearing a flimsy summer dress but that’s part of the challenge right? This week’s Spoonflower challenge is Maximalist Holiday

This is what I have come up with: Wonderful Colorful Christmas

wonderful colorful christmas repeat pattern

I worked in a bold color palette and combined ornately decorated Christmas ornaments with gifts and Christmas greenery.

The design works fabulously as a tablecloth or placemat

wonderful colorful christmas placemat

and a drop dead gorgeous wrapping paper

Voting starts tomorrow …and go on … you know you want to vote!

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gothic halloween fabric design

Gothic Halloween Fabric Design

Gosh this was a fun fabric to design, Spooky Halloween Haunts

gothic halloween fabric design

Perfect for ghouling up a Halloween table with a placemat!

gothic halloween placemat

Voting starts on Thursday and you know how much I appreciate anyone taking the time to give me a vote!

Update

Super excited to place 7th out of 666 entries receiving 295 votes. This is the 6th time I have got into the top 10 this year and I appreciate every one of those votes!

spooky Halloween haunts fabric
spooky halloween haunts fabric wiiner
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Climbing Vines Spoonflower Challenge

I am a sucker for blue and white and was drawn to create my entry for the Spoonflower climbing vines wallpaper challenge in a soft blues.

climbing blue vines repeat pattern

The design was formatted as a half drop repeat which I tend to favor for wallpaper designs, particularly when the design is organic … nobody wants to see those vines line up across a wall.

blue climbing vine wallpaper

Voting starts Thursday 20th August … votes always appreciated!

Update!

Whoooop-dee-do, I placed 3rd … oh happy days!

I got 304 votes which is the most votes I have ever received in a Spoonflower challenge, so a big thank you to anyone who voted!

climbing blue vines repeat pattern challenge winner
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Dental Hygienists Pattern Fabric

This was a fun challenge and I decided to give some love to all those dental hygienists out there who help keep our teeth looking their best. I am not sure what all those scraping and prodding tools are called but who cares when they are modeled by sweet teeth!

dental hygienist tools pattern repeat

The Dental Hygienist design is specifically scaled to be used for making face masks.

Voting starts on August 6th

I also created a simple uncolored version of the same pattern

dental hygienist tools pattern repeat

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