The carousel animals from the December 2022 calendar page (process post here) are now available as fabric and wallpaper on my Spoonflower shop (as well as on Redbubble). The samples above are on Celosia Velvet (left) and Petal Cotton — and grasscloth wallpaper.
Enchanted Carousel — Turquoise
I really like the texture of the grasscloth wallpaper!
These designs are also up on my Redbubble store as prints, cases, bags, shirts, etc:
Some new fabric and wallpaper designs are up on Spoonflower!
My mother requested the line-art of the July calendar as a quilt backing fabric, so I uploaded both the line and colour versions.
The mermaids from the February calendar are now also up on Spoonflower — I’d quite like a sundress out of these.
A few more are on the way and will be up on Spoonflower in due course — and these designs are also up on prints, clothes, scarfs, phone cases, etc on Redbubble.
My Go-Betweens design is now up on Spoonflower as fabric and wallpaper — my 8×8″ swatches of Celosia Velvet, Silky Faille, and cotton just arrived this week.
It’s a repeating design based on the April 2020 calendar illustration, and was already up on Redbubble on various things (prints, cushions, shirts, etc).
You can find it (and other designs) by swatch, fat quarter, or yard(s) in my Spoonflower shop.
I mentioned previously that the mermaid design (for the September calendar) was up on Redbubble (t-shirst, phone cases, etc). It is in two colourways: the simple white background and the repeating green design.
Now I have also received my test prints from Spoonflower (print on demand fabrics), and the designs are up there too in three options: Green background; white background; and no lines (rather impressionistic, would work well for backgrounds/lining).
Here they are, with my feet for scale.
And I ordered a doona/duvet cover from Redbubble. The printed layer has a beautiful silky cottony feeling – it was meant to be for the spare bedroom but I might keep it for myself. Shown here with books and sofa cushion for scale – it’s quite a large print.
I’ve been learning to stitch a rolled-hem for two shawls I’ve wanted to make for some time. A few people have asked for the designs, so I’ve made them public on my Spoonflower page.
The first is the cover art for Midnight and Moonshine (print it centred across two yards):
The other is “Round Eternal”, one of the pieces for the art show last month (print it centred on one yard for a square scarf):
Crooked branches for Illustration Friday (and some birthday cards). The dog is in ink and gouache – my father likes to say of dogs that “every inclination of their heart is only evil all the time”, so presumably this one has some ulterior motive. The branch of flowers is in gouache and (imitation) gold leaf. That was my second attempt. The first attempt to use gold leaf (and do an illustration for this topic), below, went horribly wrong due to some misapplied… well, it wasn’t varnish. Anyway! Turns out the size and leaf apply rather well to fingernails, and the Dustbuster my sister gave me for my birthday comes in handy when the table is covered with tiny flecks of metal foil.
On the theme of cards, here is a belated thank you card for a gift of handmade concertina books from Trudi. The card is about an inch-and-a-half square when it is folded, and has foxes, birds, mice, a cat, a Dalek and me:
And on the theme of dogs, the Little Red Riding Hood fabric swatch arrived! The fabric is now available for purchase at Spoonflower: All the Wild Wolves
Kathleen Jennings 