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!
As 2022 draws to a close, I am pleased to say I have again achieved my goal of entering every single Spoonflower challenge. Whew, it marks my third year of doing so!
Can I improve on my previous years results?
1 Win!
6 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
2 Wins!
11 top ten placements
23 free proof placement
…drum roll please …
3 WINS!
12 TOP TEN placements
25 free proof placement.
3 Wins, including the licensing competition with LainSnow!
12 additional top ten placements
and a whopping 25 designs placed for free proofing
I am thrilled to bits with these results … but almost feel this is impossible to beat in 2023. Spoonflower challenges attract so much talent these days and is is not uncommon to have 1200+ entries per competition.
However my mission continues to enter every single challenge in 2023!
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
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
Delicious Ditsy… now there is a fun design prompt for a challenge! I messed around with a recent Christmas charcuterie design I had created and turned it into something more ditsy, for this week’s challenge
Occasionally a Spoonflower design challenge prompt has me stumped on what to create but that was definitely not the case with this week’s “Art Deco” The funny thing is, is that I am not that keen on art deco design but the ideas just kept rolling out of my head and it was difficult to pick which one to enter.
This is what I went with
Art Deco Teal
Are here are some other ideas I came up with. All are now for sale in my Spoonflower shop
The only tattoos I really like, are those beautiful abstract line art ones! So that was the inspiration behind my design for the tattoo flash sheet design challenge this week
I also mucked about with another version but decided to go with the pink one. Both designs are now for sale in my Spoonflower shop in various scales
What ever happened to a a basket in the corner for your pet dog? These days some pooches have better dwellings that their human friends! This week’s Spoonflower challenge is barkitecture or pet first architecture!
It was a fun one to design!
I also created a couple of coordinated prints
It has been a month of tea towel / wall hanging design challenges over at Spoonflower and this week marks the last one. The prompt is dad jokes … I can hear you all groaning now. Not my favorite prompt by any means. But usual I rose to the challenge and came up with this.
Now coming from Britain, every atom of my being wanted to use the word Maths instead of Math, but it is a case of knowing your target customer. So I sucked it up and went with the American version!
