Another revisit

I've revisited some patterns I designed a while ago, when I was learning how to design a collection.
I called it GeoGarden because it is part geometric and part floral.
Now I've entered those patterns in a Spoonflower cheaters quilt contest.

Zig-Zag cheater's quilt

I've also designed a couple of fake rooms, and tried the patterns as a bed set,

A cheater's bed set

And as wallpaper

A cheater's wallpaper

I'm still amazed at the things one can do on a computer.

Meg's Possum Pouches

Meg has just sent me a photo of the possum pouches she makes. It is very exciting to see my fabrics being used and especially for such a good cause.

Meg's Possum Pouches

A nice thing happened

A couple of weeks ago, a wildlife carer from Cairns, found my Spoonflower shop online and bought some of my Oz Animals fabric. She then send me a message telling me what she was using the fabric for. Here is some of what she said:
"I rescue and care for injured Aussie wildlife. And I make possum pouches for the little joeys. There is so little fabric with possums or anything other than bats. Bats only get plenty of fabric designs because of Halloween. I'll send you pix of what your fabric is used for later if you like."
In the meantime she sent me a picture of one of her charges.

Meg also sent me some links to her films that she posts on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boeGUpGrK4A&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ezTmEVna0
http://www.youtube.com/user/megpiefaerie01?feature=mhee

This story made me really happy

Doing other things

I've been so busy doing other things that I haven't had the time to write my blog.
I haven't been designing much either, but I've managed to enter a couple more of the Spoonflower contests.

1. Geometric shapes, palette limited.

I didn't like their choice of colours so I'll change them later.

2. Stars & Stripes

I think this one was meant to be about the 4th of July, but I'm not American so I decided to do whatever I liked.

Hand Drawn contest

I've entered another Spoonflower contest, this one using hand drawn patterns only.
Lots of people loved it but I didn't make it to the final.
But it is a lot of fun and gives me some exposure.

My First Tea Towels

These are my first purpose designed Tea Towels.

And here they are for real, digitally printed by Spoonflower

Another contest

I've entered another Spoonflower contest and didn't win of course.
This one was called Urban Sightings, and you had to choose one or more pictures provided by them, and design a fabric that visually related to your choice.
I chose this photo.

And this is the design I created.

I named it "Life under foot". My garden is paved with this pattern, and these are the things I see living on the pavement.