Category Archives: Common sense color

Tips on using color successfully.

Lions, tigers, & color management…oh my!

By leslie | January 12, 2009

This week’s winning Spoonflower fabric is by Rachel of MammaMade fame.
 
 
Rachel has been posting extremely detailed tutorials on designing fabric using vector art created in free software tools like Inkscape, a new SVG authoring program (shameless plug for SVG, a web technology I worked on years ago).  In fact, she details her complete design process [...]

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Spoonflower quilt fabric test results

By leslie | January 8, 2009

Have you checked out Spoonflower, a site where you can upload your own fabric designs and have them digitally printed onto fabric?

I made this small quilt using one of my beta tester swatches of Spoonflower’s first printed fabrics on Kona cotton.  Spoonflower has subsequently switched their print stock to Moda cotton (Bleach White from the [...]

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