Happy New Year, friends.
(I think I'm OK to say that if it's still January).
I have started the new year off with a bang - lots of new projects under way.
The one I have been concentrating on the most involves expanding my horizon in fabric design beyond the usual Blueberry Blue colorway that fills my Spoonflower shop, LilyOake!
Lilyoake on Spoonflower
The new direction still involves designing with blue and white, but now includes a rich navy with which I also plan on printing on silk, cotton voile and knits to sew clothing with, in order to add one-of-a-kind detail and pattern to my all navy and white wardrobe!
I have designed a collection of navy and white florals that would work beautifully for romantic dresses and feminine wrap front tops or silk scarves!
But they would also make fabulous wallpapers or linen slipcovers.
The possibilities are only limited by your imagination (and perhaps, limited sewing skills, hahaha)
I'd love feedback and also am open to suggestions on patterns, or if you need a certain look or pattern for a wedding or house project.
Have a great day, and I do hope you enjoy my new designs!
Hello!
(vinter vanter is Danish for winter mittens)
And that's just what I designed for the Spoonflower mitten-theme wrapping paper contest!
Check it out here:http://www.spoonflower.com/contest_voters_temp/new?contest_id=223
and don't forget to vote, hopefully for mine!
I designed winter blue mittens with Scandinavian folk art patterns in white, with gold cuffs and scattered golden snowflakes, on a clean white background!
Here is what my pattern looks like close-up.
And thank you for checking out the entries....
I have an entire shop full of blue & white patterns for you to enjoy too.
They'd make wonderful wrapping paper, wallpaper and fabrics!
Head on over to The Pink Pagoda to se all the exciting links to everyone's blue and white blog postings on this first Monday in November!
Click here:
the Pink Pagoda
I have been b.u.s.y
Period.
I haven't posted in awhile but I have been spending my limited free time designing new fabrics for my Spoonflower shop, LilyOake.
Check it out! Its all blue and white, for the most part.
Here is my latest design....the tea towel I entered into the 2014 Spoonflower contest! I'd love a vote from you too...it would be wonderful to make the top ten (or be #1)
My design is titled "May Day Roses Tea Towel 2014" by lilyoake.
Once you highlite all the designs you like, you must go through all 13 pages to the very end, where you will enter the secret word, then click submit.
Then again, enter the secret word and click "submit".
Enjoy the designs!
Spoonflower 2014 Tea Towel Design Contest
I once told a friend about my kitchen "goodie drawer' post idea and she thought it a good one but to change the title for it because someone else once blogged about their goodie drawer - next to their bed, if you kin my meaning!
Well I can understand why she'd be worried about that! But I have called my "goodie drawer" just that, for years! And to people like me, this is a real goodie drawer - full of beautiful kitchen and serving pieces I use but rarely or on special occasions. Silver knives with M.O.P. handles...silver sugar cube tongs, tea strainers, etc. And my favorite pieces of all, the soft paste porcelain handled serving pieces made by A.E. Lewis in Sheffield, England.
Some have navy handles with a colorful filigree pattern, some have a pale blue handle. My favorites are in the classic Blue Onion pattern. I used to have over 110 pieces but sold some off now and then to raise money for other household projects. The pieces I sold were flatware - fish sets and soup spoons, etc. The pieces I kept are ones I use and bring out at tea parties or during the holidays.
The pieces range from bread and cheese knives to salad servers, berry spoons, cheese planes, pickle forks and even iced tea spoons, with long necks and a perforated bowl with etched filigree.
Most are stainless while a few are silver plate, like the gorgeous 2-sided punch ladle I found on eBay for $55, around 15 years ago!
All are treasured and live in my kitchen "goodie drawer", which is off limits to everyone in the house but me. I can't tell you how many times someone has dropped one and shattered the precious and delicate porcelain handles so now they are used very sparingly but are wonderful to look at in between those occasions!
My kitchen is tiny so to set aside an entire drawer for these treasures shows you how I feel about them!
I thought I'd set a few up outside on the patio table, under the protective umbrella, on a very hot summer day, and take photos to show you. This isn't all of them, I have around 50 pieces, but they are some of the more fun ones! I used one of my own fabric designs I have available on Spoonflower, for the back drop: "Watercolor Roses in blueberry blue".
Server, berry spoon, bread knife and serving fork in Blue Onion
Pickle fork and cheese knife in Blue Onion
A cake server and combed cutter in navy Floraine
Cheese knives and planes in periwinkle Floraine
Iced Tea Spoons in navy Floraine
Double-sided silver ladle in periwinkle Floraine
Butter knives in navy Floraine
Silver salad servers in navy Floraine
Bread knife and extra large serving spoon in navy Floriane
A very old Austrian-made silver dessert fork in Blue Onion
Link to Pink Pagoda to see many other wonderful blue and white entries!
Pink Pagoda Blue and White Bash
I have completed the second dining chair slipcover, this one in "May's Rose" in pale blueberry blue and white!
Same pattern as the first chair's slip - thought that if I was using a different fabric on each chair, I could keep some cohesiveness by using same colorway and pattern.
Don't they look summery!?
I am working on a blue and white tartan fabric design for winter versions of these same slip covers...stay tuned for that!
Once again, my fabric collection, all in blue & white, can be purchased by the yard or in wallpaper, wrapping paper and wall decals at:
Spoonflower
