I'm totally psyched! After about a two months wait, I finally got accepted into the Spoonflower Beta!
Spoonflower is a site that lets you upload images, and they print fabric with your images on it. Currently they only have one fabric available for the Beta (100% Kona® cotton from Robert Kaufman Fabrics), but they are about to add a second fabric. Images can either be the full size of the piece of fabric you want to order, or if it is smaller, it will be tiled.
This post from one user shows examples of how the fabric turned out with different digital images she submitted. There is also a large Flickr pool of pictures. The prices for the fabric and shipping it are totally reasonable too! For those who do not know how to prepare digital images, they have some good pointers on their FAQ.
While I am no good at sewing or using a sewing machine, I use fabric for handmade cards and bookbinding. I signed up for the beta with these uses in mind, however after seeing all the different things other people came up with, I am dying to try to learn how to sew! I have already picked out a good starter project for myself: making a scrunchie. I have a design in mind for the fabric, but have not made my digital image yet. If my scrunchie turns out, I'll update yinz.
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Designing Your Own Fabric on Spoonflower
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Does it work through printing and dyes, or through clever use of automated weaving/stitching?
I actually stopped reading regularly because of (what seemed to be) all of the "fluff" product articles - but I thought this one was actually pretty cool.
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mds -
Printing... they are currently testing printing on the final candidates for the second fabric to see how they turn out.
Jo-
I'm sorry you didn't like my other articles, but glad that you liked this one and let me know.
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