'Bitsy and the Unicorn Princess' - Plush pattern design for Spoonflower!

'Bitsy and the Unicorn Princess' (cut + sew toy) ©2015 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved.

The Challenge: Spoonflower asked their design faithful to create a cut-&-sew pattern to make a plush mythical creature toy. The sewing pattern, with instructions, was to fit on a fat quarter of linen-cotton canvas (27" x 18").
My Solution: When I researched Mythical Creatures I found a few options to explore. First was a mermaid, but I had just designed one for the counting challenge. The other natural choice… a unicorn. I researched horses for body shape and drew a few with the profile of a realistic horse but when it came down to it, my original rough sketch looked like more fun.
I did my usual process to complete my illustration:  1. rough sketches in my sketchbook  2. then photographed them with my iPad  3. drew over my sketches to clean them up in the Adobe Ideas App. (this converts them to a vector image)  4. opened the sketches in Photoshop and chose a color palette  5. assembled the icons  6. finally lay out my icons on 27x18" file with a logo and cut lines.

Bitsy 

The Unicorn Princess

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'Itsy bitsy ditsy sheep' makes Spoonflower top 10!

'itsy bitsy ditsy sheep' fabric photo from Spoonflower.com
fabric design ©2015 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved.

To celebrate the Year of the Sheep and the Chinese New Year, Spoonflower's contest challenge last week was to design sheep fabrics using a ditsy style, or scattered, small-scale, non-directional repeat.  I entered the design below and it came in their top 10! 

Top 10 'Year of the Sheep' Fabric Bundles with my 'itsy bitsy ditsy sheep' fabric.
 (Photo from Spoonflower.com) ©2015 Patty Rybolt Designs. All Rights Reserved.

'itsy bitsy ditsy sheep' (8x8") ©2015 Patty Rybolt Designs