I seriously cannot believe it, but I won a blog give away! Lizzy house picked my entry as the winner!

I just found her lovely site through Paint in My Hair.

MODKIDBOUTIQUE

She's another designer that does all sorts of stuff including fabrics.

Tula Pink does is again! She goes further into depth on her design process in three separate posts. These spawned an hour long discussion, show and tell regarding design workflow and process with my husband last night at one in the morning I might add ;).

Post 1

Post 2

Post 3

I love the turtle design the best of all of them

It's raining in Los Angeles!!

This hasn't happened since February, I think

I believe that I found this through craftzine, but cant' remember now...

Oddles an oodles shows us how to test if a plastic object is bakelite or plastic. Super exciting as a collector of vintage goodies...

Check it out!! Bakelite, live![/url]

Linenplace - The Truth About Thread Count

I found this via true up and it's a pretty good article about fabric quality in general. Really more for sheeting as opposed to fashion or other home decor fabrics, but very informative.

Ah-Yi has some neat art and more interesting stuff. Check her out!

I have a new favorite blog! Pink Penguin! The picture below is actually from one of her online buddies, but I loved it so much I used it for the picture:



I've been having fun looking through her blog. I found her site through Japan Craft Journal. currently drooling over her Japanese fabric finds. Note to self: Drag husband kicking and screaming to Nipporri on next trip to Japan.

Here are a few more people spoonflowering.

Mamma made has a TON of info on her blog about it, here.

And Theresa from Sewing stars printed some her designs as well, which you can check out here and here.

I'm always confused about what kind of thread I should use on a project and usually end up just using whatever matches. But not so any more!

Check out this brochure on thread types

found on craftzine who found it via http://label-free.blogspot.com/.