Spoonflower Competition

So I've finally got round to entering something in a Spoonflower competition. The competition closed yesterday on Tuesday the 27th and the theme is the desert. After much thought I decided to create a pattern based on the creatures that you don't automatically think of as living in the desert. I chose to research the Gobi desert as it is a place I have always wanted to visit. Here is the image that I created for my pattern;

so we have a bear, wolf,ox,ibex,ass and a jerboa....no camels in sight! Did you know the Gobi bear is extremely rare? They think there are only 30 adult bears in the world...The things you learn! Here's the pattern:

 

 I've also uploaded it to my Spoonflower profile and soon you will be able to view the competition entries and vote for me if you think i've done okay, I'll let you know when the voting page is up as i'm a bit unsure as to when it will be. Anyone know?!

I also now have 4 of my designs up for sale on fabric...Super cool! I can't wait to order some and get crafty :-)

Spoonflower fabric samples have arrived!

Woohoo! Well it's taken quite some time for the spoonflower samples I ordered to arrive. It was very exciting opening up the package, It's great to see your patterns on fabric, and although they took a really really long time to arrive I'd definitely recommend spoonflower for printing your designs as the communication was brill. (It actually took 6 weeks from ordering the samples to when they arrived).

I'm happy with 4 out of 5 of the designs, the bird and feather design hasn't come out well on fabric, I need to adjust the colours and reorder a sample. The bird is just too dark when transferred to fabric. This is one of my favorite designs so it's a shame and I'd love to order some fabric so I'll get the design sorted asap. You can view my original blog post about the bird and feather pattern here.

The patterns I ordered samples of:

And here are the samples:

See my Spoonflower profile here.

Cheers all :-)