#myfabricdesigns

My samples are here and I’ve got some new patterns up! I’m splitting them into 3 separate posts.
The first one I drew is this black & white crinoid fossil pattern copied from a 1760’s teapot from The Met’s collection. The Milwaukee Art Museum has a nearly identical one, also 1760’s, and at first I’d assumed they were heavily stylized but it turns out that slices of crinoidal limestone really do look like that. (source for the last picture) Looking at pictures of crinoid fossils I found matches for almost every single motif in the teapot, and was amazed.

I drew my pattern with a smallish felt tipped pen and did the dots in between with a sharpie. This is the first historical pattern I’ve ever copied (not from fabric, but it’s still a historical pattern) and I doubt anyone would ever guess it was 18th century.

It’s on Spoonflower,MyFabricDesigns, and Redbubble.

My samples have arrived! The frog toile is now available in all 10 colours on my Spoonflower! And on MyFabricDesigns, as well as some items on Redbubble (where the 6 frog scenes are also available as individual prints).

The birds in trees pattern is one I did back in college for a screenprinting assignment, and I added some colour and texture to it to make a few different versions.

I’ve been wanting to make some dinosaur patterns for a while, because I do @pterribledinosaurdrawings, and here are my first two. One of screaming chaos dinosaurs, and one of calm clean bathroom dinosaurs.
I started with that one mostly because Redbubble has shower curtain and bath mat options, and also because I was angry at my (now former) co-worker for not washing his hands and wanted to draw some nice hygienic dinosaurs.

Here’s the monster print waistcoat next to some of the original drawings. This bit of fabric was part of a fill-a-yard I got to proof a bunch of Spoonflower designs, and I just barely had enough material for the waistcoat, so I couldn’t do any pattern matching on the pocket flaps. That’s ok though, the monsters can wander wherever they like. (There are 24 monsters in total, and I have 8 other coloured versions of the monster pattern on my SpoonflowerandMyFabricdesigns.)

The buttons are covered in a quilting cotton from my stash, and the lining is a dark brown cotton bedsheet from the thrift store. The back is coarse linen twill from Pure Linen Envy.

And the 3rd and 4th of my new patterns are these monster ones! They’re drawn in pen and scanned, as usual. I did some round monster polka dots, and some monsters trapped in a lattice with little starbursts where the lines intersect. (I entered the purple version of the Monster Lattice in a Spoonflower contest, but I’ll post about that on February 3rd when voting opens.)
Not much to say about these ones except that the lattice pattern is heavily inspired by a fabric sample from the Cooper Hewitt collection.

These are all up on Spoonflower,MyFabricDesigns, and Redbubble.

The second of my new patterns is Cambrian Bowling Alley Carpet, which is exactly what it sounds like - a bunch of Cambrian era creatures in a pattern inspired by 1990’s bowling alley carpets. Why? I don’t know, it’s not my style at all, but it was just one of those things where once I thought of it i needed to make it exist or else it’d lurk in the back of my mind forever. (Much like my Werther’s wrapper waistcoat) I painted the creatures in gouache and scanned them and then spent a very very long time editing.

I made a smaller coordinating print of just the little confetti creatures in between the larger ones, and I liked the way the omnidens looked so much I added some texture and made them their own print with blue and brown versions.

I wrote down all the names as I drew them so I wouldn’t forget that the big creatures are: omnidens, anomalocaris, opabinia, norwoodia, marrella, facivermis, diania, pikaia, and hallucigenia.

And the little confetti creatures are: orthoceras, burgessia, wiwaxia, isoxys, kiisortoqia, tuzoia, vetulicolia, dinomischus, urokodia, plectronoceras, nectocaris, eokinorhynchus, and various trilobites. (Every single one of those names is underlined in red! Spellcheck must really hate prehistoric invertebrates.)

All of these patterns are on Spoonflower,MyFabricDesigns, and Redbubble.

(Insert joke here about being nostalgic for a simpler time before smartphones and trees and internal skeletons)