AUTUMN CRAFTS

 CRAFTS FOR FALL

Time for making those beautiful crafty home decor items and accents for the fall season!! I love crafting and trying to come up with something different and wonderful for decorating the whole house!

I've started making fabric pumpkins out of flannel fabric and some of the left over fabrics I've had laying around for years. I am in the trial and error phase, not sure what size I want the pumpkins to be so I am experimenting with different sizes and ways to make them. There are so many cute pumpkin crafts, some out of old sweaters, socks, rectangles of fabrics, cutting out pieces or using one piece of fabric. So many styles to choose from!

I was going for sewing them but now am thinking that I'll not sew as many and go for the one piece pumpkins. The stuffed kind are to my personal liking but if I can find those styrofoam pumpkins to cover, that will be good so I don't have to purchase a ton of non-toxic fiber filler.

After I finally get the process down the way I want, I'll make a bunch of pumpkins and then move on to something else, I'm sure. But, for now, here they are and I'm going to try to post a video at my YouTube channel of me making them. First I have to find a good way to film the video and that's half the battle!

I have designs on Spoonflower Fabrics and got this cute fat quarter kit!

I started by cutting them out at the edge of the border, then put them on top of black small ribbed corduroy fabric, traced them and cut that out. Now sewing and stuffing!

Notching the outside curves ...

Clipping the inside curves!

I'll post the photos when all of the pieces are done. I'm taking a craft break right now. But will be back with the finished product soon! Enjoy!

Turning a cat right sides out.

SURFACE DESIGN

 MAKING PATTERNS

PEEL AND STICK WALLPAPER AT SPOONFLOWER

ONE of my favorite designs to create is patterns! I especially love creating block 'tile' patterns, like the kind you find on bathroom walls, bathroom floors and kitchen floors, I'm so 'old fashioned'!!

I don't use any fancy programs to create my patterns, no ProCreate or Illustrator apps or tools, just good old Photoshop CS6 and making shapes and moving them where they need to be to create repeating patterns. I'm going to TRY to film it with a recorder on my computer, adding notes as I go and then post it at my YouTube channel.

Until then, here are some fall tiled, geometric style patterns I've just created! I'll be creating some patterns to go with these in various contrasting colors so you will see them as 'mix and match' for bed linens, curtains, blankets and pillows and such! Those will be listed at my Spoonflower shop too!

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*NOTE*

This is for my Spoonflower fabric design shop. They require patterns to be at 150 pixels per inch for printing, not 300ppi as for printing on other substrates. Printing on various papers, canvases and wood, it is advisable to use at least 300ppi, for clarity.

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This is handy info for creating a square pattern, where the sides of the image are the same. Works for any size square. This is also how it is in Photoshop, the program I use for creating my art, patterns and paintings. I use other programs, but this is the one I prefer for pattern making.

Hope this helped you in some way! I will try to create a video for my YouTube channel showing all of this! Keep watching!

HERE

is a YouTube video showing how I use Artrage Vitae to create patterns! This is all so simple and done for you!