Category: Repeat Pattern Design

This week the Spoonflower design challenge is pets on vacation and I am sure the entries will be stuffed full of cats and dogs. But I went the pet hedgehog route and imagined them camping and sitting beside a camp fire!

Hedgehog Camping

I really love moss … it is probably because I grew up in wales where it rains quite a lot and as a result there is a lot of moss everywhere! It is the prompt for the Spoonflower challenge this week.

It is actually quite tricky to draw and capture it’s true loveliness but I battled on and took inspiration from planters… but gave it a whimsical twist.

Moss Planters

Gosh, of all the design prompts I have worked to for the Spoonflower challenges, Time machine has to have been one of the hardest.

I came up with a design or past and future vignettes with buttons to fast forward or rewind.

Also did a version with words and then another version without words or buttons

It would make fun bedding for a kids room!

I really love color, so designing in earth tones is always quite a challenge for me, particularly when they are all brown based.

However the color palette specified for this week’s Spoonflower challenge “Earth Tone Throw Pillows” spoke to me in a weird way and before I knew it a design I am really happy with popped right out!

Hilda the Highland Cow!

I also did a few other designs and also added some color to my original Hilda. All are now for sale in my Spoonflower shop in The Highland Cow Collection

2023 is the Year of the rabbit, and the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge.

I took a Bauhaus approach with my design, riffing off what I created for my Year of the Tiger design last year, and went with a spring like color palette…Easter Bunnies!

and of course I messed around with a few more design in my usual excess self!

I had such fun researching plants for this week’s Spoonflower challenge prompt – Poisonous plants. What amazed me was that I already have so many of them growing in my garden! Who knew bleeding heart was toxic!

Toxic Garden

Gosh the patience to cross stitch is immense. I have only done a little one and it took me forever!

My design for the Cross Stitch prompt this week for the Spoonflower challenge, riffs on my sausage dogs or doxies or weiner dogs. Whatever you call them they are fun little pooches!

Doxie Cross Stitch

It has been a tradition that Spoonflower has a challenge that features the Pantone color of the year, so it come as no surprise that it is indeed the prompt for a new challenge. What is different this year is that Spoonflower has really “jumped into bed” with Pantone and the challenge design has to feature not only the Pantone color of the Year “Viva Magenta” but also include the Ignite palette which was developed to coordinate with Viva magenta.

As much as I love the gorgeously vibrant “Viva Magenta” the color palette we wee asked to work with literally sucked the life out of it. But that is the challenge right!

I dilly and dallied and came up with two designs and am entering the Vineyard one.

Viva Magenta Vineyard

Ying Yang Viva Magenta Floral

I really don’t like those favorite things lists that pop up from celebrities, I don’t give a f**k about what they like, but I may be in the minority here!

Never the less that is the prompt for this week’s Spoonflower challenge

My choice for this challenge was simple. A humble packet of seeds, The joy they give me is immense, from the excitement of choosing them, to starting them off in seed trays and waiting in anticipation for those first shoots. Then comes my impatience as I wait for the Chicago weather to finally reach a point where they might possible survive outside. The planting, the tending and finally the blooms. I mean, what is not to love!

I created two colorways but am planning on entering the darker of the two

Seed Packet Love

It’s not yet Christmas yet here I am thinking about Valentines day as a result of this week’s Spoonflower challenge

Lets face it Valentines day is a commercial load of “balls” but it is hugely popular so it does indeed deserve a design or two. I have done a whole collection in the past, Love me Do and will be adding a few patterns!

I did a couple of hero design and am not sure which one to enter yet

It also did a little non directional coordinate