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.
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" [...]
Try it: Spoonflower’s Fill-a-Yard tool and 8-bit Art
Spoonflower has a new Fill-A-Yard tool. It's very simple to use. Create a collection of fabrics. Choose a template (this is 1 yard with 6 inch squares). Click the fabric you want from the thumbnails [...]