This week’s Spoonflower contest challenge was to design a skirt that fit on one yard of fabric, which I found utterly irresistable.  Here is my contest entry, “Eye Spy”:

I would love it if you would go and vote for my design here: Spoonflower 1 yard skirt contest.  There are about 8 pages of designs and they pop up at random, so you will have to look through to find me.  (You can vote for other designs you like too.)

The owl is from a photo we took at an event we went to for the Raptor Center here in St Paul.  This was one of their educational owls who goes out to schools and events.  We got some really great photos of him because he is so used to being in front of people. He’s got a kind of watercolor/handpainted effect via Photoshop because I wanted it too look more “artistic” and less photo-real.

The pattern on the upper part of the skirt is hand-drawn and scanned.  I call it “cockleburrs” but it also looks like tiny feathers.

The polkadots on the bottom of the skirt are an echo of those beautiful golden eyes.

I have made up the skirt and it is pretty fabulous, but it is pouring rain today and not so conducive to a photoshoot, so I will try to post a picture soon.