Projects & Tutorials
Learn more about designing fabric with Spoonflower, creating graphics for your Etsy shop, and other sewing projects with these free tutorials. Have a question or something you want to learn about designing fabric? Just ask! Some of my favorite tutorials have come from questions asked by readers.
Save This Layout and Selling your Spoonflower designs. (I learned something new.)
I've been designing a bunch of tea towels for my Spoonflower shop lately. The September design challenges were all about tea towels and I did a couple of tea towel calendars too. Those kinds [...]
Video Tutorial: Combining photos to print at Spoonflower
?? I've had several students ask me this week: "How can I combine a bunch of different things together and print them all on a yard of fabric at Spoonflower? Do I use Fill-A-Yard?" [...]
Video Tutorial: Fill-A-Yard Projects with Spoonflower
A quick video tutorial of how to use Spoonflower's Fill-A-Yard feature. Thanks to a student from my online class for the question. If you need a little more help working with collections, be [...]
Making Paper Mosaics: A video demo
At my last fabric design class, I chatted with my students about how I make paper mosaic designs. I like to design fabrics using original art like paper collage or drawings or paintings. They were [...]
Exploring the Black, a dye reference e-book
I was invited to present a talk about dyeing with black to a weaving study group this weekend. They knew that black was a challenging color and wondered if I could provide some tips and [...]
Tutorial: Make a valentine cut-out design
Since Valentines Day is just around the corner, I thought I would post a quick tutorial for making a heart shaped cut out design. You can use any image or pattern and "cut it out" [...]