October is the Best Time to Order Holiday Fabric from Spoonflower

Just a reminder: the ordering deadlines at Spoonflower cut off in late November when there is always a rush and extra shipping time required.  If you are thinking about crafting with their fabric, cut and sew designs, or pillow panels; October is a great (and relaxing) time to order.  Sure to arrive with enough time to sew and craft.

Kara Skye Art fabric designs for various holiday and winter craft projects from Spoonflower include:

Christmas Stockings, Pillow Panels:
Yule/Solstice/Winter, Christmas, All Holiday including Halloween and Thanksgiving, Non-Holiday
Quilt Panels: Wildlife/Nature
Winter Plaids
Tea Towel Designs: Holiday, Non-holiday

Summer Writing - Not Much Art

I haven't been doing much art lately; however, I am sticking with fabric design.  I have a new set of toss pillows from floral photographs and working to bring this tree art quilt from the Winter Barn Owl series to market and Youtube How-to Video.

I am probably redesigning a few books covers this summer, too, like Willow the novel I am also writing.  I did a quick digital sketch for an image in the Cover Box for Camp NaNoWriMo, so it wouldn't look blank and dull.  I will have to recreate the cover though and take some photos for that.

Read excerpt updates from Willow.

I've been working on learning forums and sign-ups with an immediate response - Autoresponders, I think they are called - so if you signed up for the Free Print and did not get it yet, please send me an email, HERE.  Also if you've commented but I haven't responded, I did not receive the comments.  A forum is my next try.  Look for it, here, by Fall.

My Winter Barn Owl Quilt is a Cheater..

Quilt!  Cheater Quilts are panels with a design on them which can be made into a quilt.  They are called cheater because the steps of cutting and piecing small pieces of fabric to form the design is not necessary.  A huge step is skipped, although the quilting, backing, and other steps are not.  They are not traditional quilting, because they emerge from one fabric printed image - usually in the center. This doesn't mean the edges can't be pieced together to be quilted.

I created this design to be easy quilting that has the look of a more difficult quilt.  Each section is printed on the fabric, though I made it to look pieced on the borders.  Like the snowflake corner details and border moon and trees.  I made the background to simulates hand-dyed pieces.

Quilting by hand or machine then adds artistry to make a blanket or wall hanging, however even the quilting is not required.   It can be hung as a sheet or sewn into various kinds of wall-hangings.

Personally, I like the trees together, so I made a cheater quilt fabric with just the trees, to be available in November 2014.  Winter Barn Owl and Midnight Snowflake backing fabric are now for sale at Spoonflower.