Dish Towel Inspiration

 Recently I have been trying to keep my mind from being anxious.  Anticipation is always such a waste of time, when we really have little control of what will happen in our future.

To distract myself I  have been designing kitchen towels.  My new obsession. Everywhere I go, I see the most interesting kitchen towels.

Anticipation...nobody sings it better than Carly.  Carly Simon is writing her memoir.  She just celebrated her 68th birthday and you can find more about her latest news on her web site.

So, I decided to design four kitchen towels on one yard of Linen Cotton Canvas fabric.  Dishtowels by the yard.  A cut and sew design.  I made some of them up, to show you what they look like.



I designed Hydrangea dishtowels in four different designs.  These dishtowels have companion fabrics in my Cape Cod Hydrangea fabric collection.

Of course there had to be Little Women dishtowels.

I have designed a few more in my dishtowel fabric collection...

I am working on some Jane Austen dishtowels with some Jane Austen quotes.

An Elephant named Lily

It all began one day when I found a watercolor painting I had done of pink Day Lilies.  I went to work with my digital paintbox and created a pattern.

I created Lily and that was only the beginning...

Suddenly design ideas were dancing all around, until finally there were fifteen designs in my collection.

When the fabric arrived I was so thrilled.  Here are the swatches that I photographed for a sampler listing.

Now I am in the process of adding each design to my Etsy shop.  Three listings down and a sampler listing...thirteen more listings to go.

I thought I would also share a video I like that Spoonflower created for a recent entry they did for Small Business.  It shows how the fabric is made and gives you a fun look into their operation.

Well, back to the drawing board with An Elephant named Lily.  Don't you just love Carlie Simon?

Don't forget today is Pink Saturday and Bev from How Sweet The Sound has lots of pink inspiration.

French script fabric inspiration

I've been busy designing fabric again.

I meet the most fascinating people daily from all parts of the world.  Customers who inspire me with their requests and fabric projects.

This fabric is on it's way to Queensland, Australia. I loved the way it looked printed on Cotton Sateen so much that I wanted to photograph it before wrapping it up for shipment.

Someone asked me to rush ship this fabric to her for a display that she is creating.  Another customer is also on Etsy and asked me to design fabric for her products.

Recently a customer asked me to rotate the design so that she could wrap it around her headboard without having a seam.  She promised to send me a photo when she is done.

This fabric is printed on dreamy Organic Cotton Sateen.

Right now I am working with a customer that is creating all kinds of beautiful things using my fabric.  She is working on her daughter's wedding.

When I started designing fabric back in 2008, I had no idea how rewarding this would be.  There just aren't enough hours in the day for me to design all the fabric ideas I have.  Yet, I enjoy every minute.  I love  the adventure of working with such interesting people who create such lovely things with my fabric designs.