Spoonflower have a contest in which the community will vote on a design that they’d like to be able to buy. Only designs submitted specifically for the contest will be eligible and each winner will get five yards of free fabric. Spoonflower will then offer the winning design for sale for exactly a week – no longer – to anyone and everyone through its Etsy shop. Details here. This is a precursor to allowing designers to sell designs through Spoonflower.

If you would like to see what everyone is designing and making with their fabrics – head over to the spoonflower flickr group.

Images from Phatsheep and dozi

All I can say is WOW. Awesome stuff. Link.

Elizabeth at Lizzy House shares how she got into textile design, including how she got the deal and designing her range LizzyDish. Link.

She also has a free pattern site full of sweet patterns, link. And an online store for downloading patterns. Link.

Great insight into how this designer sketches her textile designs. Link

I do love to see progress shots of peoples crafts – check out this gorgeous simple quilt by Lara – using her own fabric.

how about orange recently wrote an interesting post on designing fabric. We have had a few inquiries about this recently too – and with a few new websites [spoon flower + bonbonkakku] to enable anybody to design their own fabric – this post comes at a perfect time – for those who want to take their fabric design bit more seriously.

some independent fabric designers who sell their limited edition fabric on etsy:

MJkido | Auntie Cookie | pippi joe

bonbonkakku is a new site a bit like threadless - design a t-shirt site, that enables designers to design fabric – readers can then vote their faves and the faves then get made into fabric which can be purchased from their shop. Current in store fave for me is the cute green dog. [thanks kylie for the link]