{"id":28,"date":"2009-12-17T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/spoonflower-and-kids\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:00:17","slug":"spoonflower-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2009\/12\/spoonflower-and-kids.html","title":{"rendered":"spoonflower and kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoonflower.com\/welcome\">Spoonflower<\/a>. If you&#8217;re not familiar with this innovative company, they can digitally print your designs onto a variety of fabrics like quilting cotton, sateen, and even a new linen\/cotton canvas quality. <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherross.squarespace.com\/journal\/2009\/12\/13\/the-library-skirt.html\">Heather Ross<\/a> made her skirt for our library appearance last week by printing onto Spoonflower&#8217;s sateen, and it looked fantastic! The fabric has a nice hand, the printing quality is very high, and the price is shockingly affordable for custom printing of such a high caliber.<\/p>\n<p>Every week Spoonflower has a fabric contest, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spoonflower.com\/2009\/12\/vote-in-the-hardest-fabric-design-challenge-ever-kids-clothing-pattern-in-a-singleyard-.html\">this week&#8217;s contest<\/a> required entrants to &#8220;create a sewing pattern and design for an article of children&#8217;s clothing that includes &#8212; <em>in one yard<\/em> &#8212; all the pieces, cut lines, seam allowances and short instructions printed directly on the fabric.&#8221; No easy task right? Well, they received seventeen entries!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/dress-pattern-731303.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 343px;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/dress-pattern-731296.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m so impressed with this design by Sylvia Ion. The dress design itself, the print (love the lace!), and the accompanying illustration are all adorable, professional, and very clever. So you know who I&#8217;m voting for. What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love Spoonflower. If you&#8217;re not familiar with this innovative company, they can digitally print your designs onto a variety of fabrics like quilting cotton, sateen, and even a new linen\/cotton canvas quality. Heather Ross made her skirt for our &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[18,16],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-inspiration","tag-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dress-pattern-731296.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2350,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2011\/03\/little-things-to-sew-the-fabrics.html","url_meta":{"origin":28,"position":0},"title":"little things to sew: the fabrics","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"March 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"You know how it is. 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