some new fabrics at spoonflower.....

I have been designing fabric again this week. I started as I wanted some specific designs for the quilt I was working on, then got sidetracked and entered a few of their weekly contests...

This one was done for their last weeks contest, "interspecies friendships"with hardly any changes from the small sketchbook page it was on, (i posted the sketchbook page here)

This one was for this week's contest, using just these 4 colors.... you could still vote by going here

but I think I like this color version better...

then I did one for next week's "love is in the air" contest.

then these are just for my quilt....

and here are the little index cards I painted them on, or rather doodled them on using pens and markers....this little mandala one was just a pen doodle on scrap paper.... cropped and
altered right on the spoonflower website. I wanted a design that would have a repeat about every inch and a half so when I cut them for the quilt's hexagons I could get a lot out of a small 8x8 piece of fabric. It doesn't cost anything to design on spoonflower, and you can sell your designs once you have purchased them at least once to see if the size and color is correct. They give you 16- 21 8x8 samples for $20 (or that or thereabout) so I can get all of these pretty reasonable if I want, and if I decide I don't like them enough to buy them I am out nothing but time. Too bad they don't pay me to talk them up, but I really do enjoy their site. It'll be awhile before I can show you the fabric because I want to play around and pick and choose designs first.

still quilting....

 

Can barely get one medallion done before starting another....

Quilting with chocolate

Heven't been painting much lately, nothing new to show, but i have been quilting. Something about the season makes me want to snuggle up and work with fabric.... And chocolate. So in my spare time, i have been eatting dark chocolate, listening to this on audible, and working on my "phantasmagoria" quilt. (Very slow going) but beautiful, to me at least. It could be too "busy" for most people's tastes i guess, and i worry there is not enough contrast, but who cares? I am having fun with it!

a new line of fabrics on spoonflower

 Been designing a whole set of matching fabrics using index cards and markers...

here they are as fabric... 

can't wait to show you whatever i actually create with these....
of course i don't know what that is going to be yet...

 But I have made a bit of progress on my variation of the passacaglia quilt I  mentioned having discovered online a few weeks ago or so...
and did put one of these new fabrics in it so far..

I looked up 'kaleidoscope' in a thesaurus to try to find a name for this quilt and I came up with ...
phantasmagoria

1.a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination.

2.a changing scene made up of many elements.

3.an optical illusion produced by a magic lantern or the like in which figures increase or diminish in size, pass into each other, dissolve, etc.

Hope I can make a quilt worthy of that name!...
unfortunately it is dark this morning so there's not enough light to get a photo that shows the colors properly, but here it is so far, hours in it but many more hours to go....

 here's my one new fabric from spoonflower....about half the fabrics are mine and half are not.

Happy paint party friday and Fabric friday!