Golden Lily

This morning I made two fabric designs available for sale on Spoonflower .  They are part of my Fat Quarters Collection.

The two designs started out based on a photograph like this:

It's a "shaky hand" photograph taken of the yard light down by our sheep shed.  I never intend the "shaky hands" effect.  I'm usually intent on catching some image that never comes out.  However, in working with this photograph, many colors were discovered as the "bumping" effect was used.  I really had to work with the image, though, to get the design just right.  At first, too many actual pixels showed up along the edges of my design giving it a rough edge.  I had to work to get those rough edges to disappear.  Sometimes the rough edges wouldn't be so evident on the digital image I uploaded to Spoonflower.  It wouldn't be until I ordered a proff of the design that I would see those rough edges. I wanted the "Golden Lily" to be smooth.  My plans were to size it for a fat quarter.  Eventually, I downsized the design so it would be centered on a fat quarter, rather than stretching all across the fabric.  The rough edges disappeared and the design looked like a smooth golden lily.

The Golden Lily designs can be seen here and here.

Regrets . . . I've had a few.

One thing I've learned since trying my hand at designing my own fabric is that what looks good on the computer might not look good on fabric.  My main problem has been that, sometimes, the image I upload has been too large, thus affecting the design.  The optimal pixels for a design  on Spoonflower is 150 pixels.

Yesterday, as I went through my Kaleidoscope collection, trying to decide which designs I wanted to put on the Spoonflower Marketplace, I noticed that some of the designs were rather large.  I logged onto Spoonflower and checked the sizes of the images that I didn't think look very good.  I created a new collection called "Regrets . . . I've Had a Few" and spent the afternoon cropping my images down and reworking them so that they would look better as fabric designs.  When I've completed that task, I'll order a sampling of my "Regrets . . . I've Had a Few" collection to see if the design swatches measure up to what I am seeing on the computer screen.

These are the designs that did pass my inspection and that are now shown on the Spoonflower Marketplace:

Kaleidoscope Collection at Summersgaze on Spoonflower

The first photograph is of wildflowers in our front yard.  The second picture is a design I created from that image using on line photo editing tools.