Category: Tea Towels

This week the Spoonflower challenge is another Pantone challenge, the last of 4 pantone challenge for this year. We started with Viva Magenta– I came 1st, then Ultra Steady , I came first again. The third challenge was Mega Matter – I came 2nd in that one. The pressure is one again to at least get in the top 10!

All of the palettes we have been given to work with have been a tad bit tricky and this week the intangible palette has it’s challenges. The whole brief of the challenge was a little odd but I took my inspiration from the word intangible and thought about the intangible nature of the wind. Windy meadow was born!

Windy Meadow

I also created a monotone repeat of the design… using the Pantone intangible palette. See the Pantone Intangible collection

It is another Spoonflower wall hanging challenge this week. Wall hangings have never been a big seller for me despite my past entries placing well. The prompt this week is Witty Wordplay.

Here is what I came up with!

Be Pre Peared

It is naff, it is cheesy but I really don’t want to invest any more time on this challenge hahah!

But I also came up with this… but it is a little too risky for a challenge entry. However it is for sale in my shop and would make a great gag gift for Christmas!

Every year Spoonflower has a recipe tea towel challenge which are always fun to create. Last year I created a tea towel for one of my favorite soups, Carrot and coriander and the previous year it was sugar mice. Before that is was Perfectly Boiled Eggs This year they are calling for festive beverages and this is what I came up with.

The Naughty Elf Cocktail

I also built out a whole collection around my naughty little Christmas elf!

Naughty Christmas Elf Collection

It is that time of year for the Spoonflower calendar challenge. Calendar tea towels have sold quite well for me over the years and I always update past calendars for the new year. Check out my 2024 calendars

I always like to take a look at the designs I have created in the last 12 months and see if any of them speak “calendar ” to me. There were three designs this year.

Waking up with the Birds

Buttercup Meadow

Honeycomb

After much deliberation I went for waking up with the birds, but all the designs are now for sale in my shop!

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!

Gosh that is a yucky prompt for a Spoonflower challenge. We are in the depths of tea towel/ wall hanging challenges and I have to admit they are not my favorite. But I am keeping my personal promise of designing for every single challenge!

This is what I came up with ” My Magic Pencil” One pencil three colors.

As those Fall chilly days make an appearance I love to cook up a big pot of home made soup and carrot and coriander (or cilantro) is my absolute favorite. It is the inspiration for my entry into the Spoonflower design challenge this week which is asking for recipe wall hangings

It is that time of year again, the Spoonflower design challenge prompt this week is 2023 Calendars.

I looked back over the designs I have created this year to see if any of them would lend themselves to a calendar design and went a little crazy coming up with 6 designs!

This is the one I have entered

2023 Vintage Chicken Calendar

Here are the rest! I have also updated all my previous calendars with 2023 dates, the collection can be seen here