A Real Fabric Design

Over the last month or so, I've had the extreme pleasure of taking an amazing class through the Creativebug website, which is awesome, let me tell you! If you've never checked it out, do so! They offer free tutorials, Monday tips, in addition to an impressive class lineup (with new classes added weekly!). It's completely affordable, less expensive than a magazine subscription!

So, anyway, I was talking about a course in Fabric Design that they recently released. Aside from the fact that the course features tips and advice from some big names in quilting and fabric design, they teamed up with Spoonflower and offered a fabric design contest!
I was immediately inspired by the course and drove right back into some fabric designing (which is an interest that I dabble with frequently, mostly in doodling form).
A key tip from the course that really resonated in my mind was that we should "design fabric we'd like to purchase and use".
So I did! And because I love what I designed, I purchased a fat quarter of it from Spoonflower! And after seeing it in person, I realized that I'm going to have to order some yardage and make myself a skirt!

So please go vote for me here! Voting closes tomorrow!
(Look for the "Creativebug Design Challenge")
(There's a lot of entries, so please scroll until you find mine! "Vision Flower by MammalChupie")

Thanks so much!

Fingers crossed!!!

Sketchbook Saturday #2

I've been working on changing things up a bit on this blog if you've noticed.....less sidebar distractions, minimalist approach. I still need to design a more alluring header, perhaps spice up my boring ass "About" page. A few things here and there. I still am not 100% pleased with my photos (you would think IPad photos would be crisp?! Is it only my computer?)
Most importantly, I must keep at it. No matter how lazy, tired, and pregnant I feel, I have to bring myself to the present, and do something, even a little something each day.
You'll never get anywhere if you don't put yourself out there. Even though I feel like my actual goals are shifting perspectives, I know that fundamentally I will get out only when I put in. More work will equal better work.
I've missed a couple Saturdays already, so lets play catch up today with the sketchbooks!