Last week I received an invite to be a beta tester for a cool new website, Spoonflower, where you can upload your own designs and have them printed on fabric.  This is such a cool idea and I’m so glad that Spoonflower exists!  They are still in the development stage, but I have high hopes for this site and what it will offer to independent artists and designers, as well as hobbyists and crafters.  I’m not a fabric designer, but I can’t wait to play with different ideas utilizing my art for custom fabric.  Over the years I’ve gotten so many emails from people asking if my art was available as fabric for use in quilting, and now I hope I can finally say, “Yes!!!” As soon as I got the invite, I dove into Photoshop and starting whipping some designs together.  I ordered a few swatches, but it will be a little while before I see them.  First they will ship to my Florida address, then they will be forwarded to me here in Wales.  I’m curious to see how well their printing process and fabric can handle detail, cause I am so incredibly detail-oriented!  I love detail.  The more detail, the better.     

Here are some jpgs of the swatches that I ordered.  This one will be printed on an 8″ x 8″ swatch, so each circle will be 1″.

Here is a close-up:

I also ordered an 8″ x 8″ swatch featuring a pattern of my Rejoicing Quietus skulls (again, bursting with detail!  This also reminds me that I’m curious to see the depth and vibrancy of the colors, as this image looks best when well-saturated):

The next 4 images I ordered as 8″ x 8″ swatches, thinking they would look great in quilts or as pillows:

This last one I ordered as a fat quarter (18″ x 21″).  It’s incredibly-detailed, so I’m really eager to see whether their printing process can handle it without too much bleed or blur.

Here’s a close-up:

I’m so excited to be able to print custom fabric incorporating my artwork.  I can envision so many uses for the fabric: stuffed toys and dolls, pillows, patches, clothes, textile art… the list goes on and on!  I’ll be sure to post pics of the fabric once I get my happy hands on it!