My heart still belongs to Spoonflower

On demand fabric printing appeared on my radar last November and on 1 December I wrote a profile of Spoonflower , the world's first online, on-demand fabric printer. Spoonflower started as an idea hatched around a kitchen table in May, 2008 and by the time I got wind of them, they already had 15,000 registered users.

When they first started, Spoonflower ran its fabrics on a quilting weight cotton and had a couple of restrictions on the files they'd accept. It's understandable, Spoonflower was blazing a trail after all. Now that they're past the learning curve, the file types they'll accept have increased significantly as have their fabric options.

Kim Fraser is the voice of Spoonflower and I heard from her once more more than one weeks ago. Kim desired to let me realize some of what they have got been as much as because the ultimate time she and I had corresponded. She provided to ship me some samples of fabrics they had revealed recently and of direction I jumped at the chance. The samples arrived in short order and I photographed them to run right here.

Danielle Hazen is the pinnacle printing operator at Spoonflower and she or he designed the following two fabric. Her layout strikes a chord in my memory of sweet corn. That's a compliment!

The gold model turned into printed on organic cotton.

The blue model changed into revealed on their linen/ cotton blend.

This is a re-worked vintage fabric Kim found on a '60s-era smock at a garage sale. Kim had Miss Black Pepper of Etsy fame recreate the pattern and Spoonflower printed it on their linen/ cotton blend.

It's clearly a vintage pattern and the fabric its printed on makes it feel vintage. It's uncanny. When I pulled that sample from the envelope it arrived in it was like having a visit from my Grandmothers.

This is Birdie Friends by Magda Russel from Craft Pudding. Birdie Friends is one of the most popular Fabrics of the Week Spoonflower's ever featured. Birdie friends was printed on quilting weight cotton.

This is LM by Mike Dawson. Mike's a regular contributor and fan favorite at Spoonflower and he has a photostream on Flickr and it contains more of his designs. LM's been printed here on quilting weight cotton.

This is Alle Autos by German graphics designer Susanne Bochem. Susanne lives in Mainz and keeps a blog, Susalabim . Alle Autos is a series of repeated water color illustrations and it was printed on upholstery weight cotton.

I took more element pictures of Susanne's fabric.

I swear, the material itself looks as if it have been painted in water coloration. You can still see the comb strokes! Now it's some great printing.

So look over Spoonflower if you're considering taking a crack at this and if you're serious, drop them a line. Kim and the whole Spoonflower team is all too willing to help you realize your vision. Kim writes the Spoonflower blog and she keeps it updated with the latest goings-on with the company and she shares a lot of Spoonflower successes there too. Give it a look.