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| Spoonflower photo of Gingerbread Village Toile. ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved. |
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| Spoonflower photo of Winter Toile Fat Quarter Bundle! |
Monday, December 29, 2014
Gingerbread Village Toile in Spoonflower top 10!
Thank you for voting!
Thanks to all for a wonderful and creative year… Happy New Year!!
Sunday, December 28, 2014
The Nutcracker for Spoonflower!
Tchaikovsky's most famous ballet was overdue for its own fabric contest so Spoonflower asked it's designers to create a fabric inspired by The Nutcracker for last week's challenge!
Voting will close on December 30th, 2014. Happy New Year! Vote Here!
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| A Nutcracker Christmas! © 2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved. |
Voting will close on December 30th, 2014. Happy New Year! Vote Here!
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Gingerbread Village Toile!
The design theme this week… 'Create a toile de Jouy - style fabric design using a single color on the theme of winter.'
The first part of my research was to look up the definition of Toile de Jouy. These fabrics are described as a 'repeated pattern of a complex pastoral scene', usually printed in red, black or blue.
The concept for this design came from my daughters. They spent an evening with their friends decorating gingerbread houses over Thanksgiving break from university and I used their creations as my inspiration.
I researched and drew sketches of gingerbread houses, trees, deer, etc. When I had my rough sketches I took a picture of them with my iPad and opened them in the Adobe Ideas app and drew cleaner versions of my sketches in black and white. I opened the PDF in Photoshop where I 'built' my icons in layers and in color. I know there has to be an easier way to do this but I like the hand drawn look that I get from doing it this way.
This design required loads of details in order to give it the traditional Toile feel. Details like the roof tiles, icicles, trees, fences, the deer and their blankets, window details, the bicycle, sleigh and the two fancy ladies, took a lot of extra time. I think I spent about 25+ hours from start to finish on this print!
Previews will be sized as quarter yards (21" x 18"). Voting starts today, December 11th, 2014 and continues until December 18th. Please Vote!!
The first part of my research was to look up the definition of Toile de Jouy. These fabrics are described as a 'repeated pattern of a complex pastoral scene', usually printed in red, black or blue.
The concept for this design came from my daughters. They spent an evening with their friends decorating gingerbread houses over Thanksgiving break from university and I used their creations as my inspiration.
I researched and drew sketches of gingerbread houses, trees, deer, etc. When I had my rough sketches I took a picture of them with my iPad and opened them in the Adobe Ideas app and drew cleaner versions of my sketches in black and white. I opened the PDF in Photoshop where I 'built' my icons in layers and in color. I know there has to be an easier way to do this but I like the hand drawn look that I get from doing it this way.
This design required loads of details in order to give it the traditional Toile feel. Details like the roof tiles, icicles, trees, fences, the deer and their blankets, window details, the bicycle, sleigh and the two fancy ladies, took a lot of extra time. I think I spent about 25+ hours from start to finish on this print!
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| Gingerbread Village Toile! ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved. |
Previews will be sized as quarter yards (21" x 18"). Voting starts today, December 11th, 2014 and continues until December 18th. Please Vote!!
Thursday, December 4, 2014
'Retro Thermoses and Lunch Boxes' in Spoonflower top 10!
Thank you for voting! My 'Retro Thermoses and Lunch Boxes' design for the Thermos challenge came in the top 10! Thanks to Spoonflower for the weekly challenges...
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| 'Retro Thermoses and Lunch Boxes' ©Patty Rybolt Designs. Photo by Spoonflower via Flickr! |
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| 'Retro Thermoses and Lunch Boxes' ©Patty Rybolt Designs. Photo by Spoonflower via Flickr! |
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Kittens in mittens
Spoonflower's design this week is cat-themed, again.
I'm more of a dog person myself, but here it is…
'Kittens in Mittens' is the theme provided so I put my kittens in mittens on skates then put them on a pond in a forrest. I don't know, where would you put them?
Voting starts on Thursday, December 4th, 2014. Please Vote!
I'm more of a dog person myself, but here it is…
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| Kittens in mittens on ice! ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. |
'Kittens in Mittens' is the theme provided so I put my kittens in mittens on skates then put them on a pond in a forrest. I don't know, where would you put them?
Voting starts on Thursday, December 4th, 2014. Please Vote!
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
'Ink' in Spoonflower top 10!
#3 last week… Thanks for voting!
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| 'Ink' ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights reserved. Photo by Spoonflower via Flicker! |
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| 'Ink' Fat quarter bundles! ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights reserved. Photo by Spoonflower via Flicker! |
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| 'Ink' ©2014 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights reserved. Photo by Spoonflower via Flicker! |
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