Tea Towels!

Three of my tea towel designs... coming soon on etsy!

using my fabrics from Spoonflower.com...

A Fancy Feathery Flock 2! (lt. aqua, lt. lime & white) ©2012 Patty Rybolt Designs

Chain Link 22 (Summer Sky) ©2012 Patty Rybolt Designs

 Olive Branches (lt. lime, lt. aqua & white) ©2012 Patty Rybolt Designs

New Year... New fabric designs! This week Toile!!

More fabric to start the new year! Spoonflower asked designers to come up with a murder-mystery themed toile de Jouy. Previews sized as quarter yard(21" x 18"). Deadline for entry was Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Toile de Jouy is a type of design popularized in the 18th century that typically depicts a complex scene, often pastoral, arranged into a repeating pattern. Classical toiles are usually two colors, with white or off-white as the background color and the pattern printed in black, dark blue, or red.

My concept for these illustrations center around cats doing what cats do. These Bad Kitty's are not very good at covering their tracks, they even appear to be proud of what they've done! Voting starts today January 17th and goes through Wednesday, January 23, 2013!!

©2013 Patty Rybolt Designs

Here is one of my new designs in different color combo's... "Flights of Fancy"! Some in the collection are available now and more will be available in the new year!

Tea Time Sweets!

This week... Sweets! This weeks fabric design depicts sweets (candy, cookies, etc.) using small scale repeating motifs that are non-directional (or scattered)... What could be sweeter than tea time? ...Butter cookies, cookies filled with jam, biscuits and macaroons... Yum!

Handmade gift tags!

Christmas tags for your Handmade Gifts! Can be printed on fabric or wall decals, available at my Spoonflower shop!

Riviera Tee from Storey Publishing

Under the Sea (One-Yard Wonders). 

Spoonflower partnered with Storey, publishers of the One-Yard Wonders books, for a new contest idea. A nautically inspired 101 Little One-Yard Wonders fabric design contest. Rebecca Yaker, one of the One-Yard Wonders authors, provided a pattern for the Riviera Tee to download. I downloaded the file, added my own design to the pattern, then uploaded the pattern with my design on it to Spoonflower, and entered the contest. 

This pattern comes in a size 8 girls... so naturally I thought Mermaids, seahorses and starfish! What 7 year old girl doesn't love this theme? It screams Under The Sea!!

The winner will have their design published in the newest in Storey’s bestselling One-Yard Wonders series: the upcoming 101 Little One-Yard Wonders. 

Voting starts on November 29th!   

Matisse "Magic Carpet" Textile (Nasher)

This week the requirements were as follows for the Nasher / Matisse Contest. Spoonflower partnered with The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to hold a contest with the goal of designing a textile that would look at home in a Matisse painting like the ones currently on display as part of the Nasher's exhibition on the Cone sisters of Baltimore. (Using the specified color palette: RGB hex codes: #DE8371, #C33855, #D1CC56, #2E486B, #FFFFFF).

The textiles in the Matisse era were very ornate. His simplification of those designs are both whimsical and a great representation of the textile itself. I chose to do a carpet -like pattern in a "simplified-ornate" design. ©2012 Patty Rybolt Designs