Fabric Collection

Mary, Mary….

May 22, 2014 by groovity

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow? That’s the title for my newest fabric collection for Modern Yardage. And I am so excited by this one! This is how the idea for this collection came about. I LOVE Pinterest. Do you? I used to rip up magazine and catalogs for inspiration, but I hated to create folders and files for all of the clippings and organize them…only to have my kitties knock them on the floor. One day […]

Categories: Design, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, New Design • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, artist, Cintiq, create, design, draw, ethnic, fabric, floral, flower, folk, modern yardage, paper, paper cutting, pinterest, polish, process, quilt, sew, slavic, surface pattern, tablet, wycinanki

Celebrate!!

February 23, 2014 by groovity

Woohoo! Let’s celebrate! This is another one of my colorways for my Folky-Dokey fabric collection with Modern Yardage. I did this one at the last minute, and I absolutely love it! I had so much fun doing the marketing for this line. I came up with this for the logo. Check out this cute bag that I made on Zazzle.com from the main pattern, “Boho”! It’s not yet available for sale…working on it 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by!

Categories: Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, New Design • Tags: bargello, bohemian, boho, bright, chevron, colorful, colorway, create, design, floral, flower, folk, fun, license, modern yardage, ogee, quilt, sew, stitch, surface pattern design, zazzle

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Believe….

February 19, 2014 by groovity

Believe… That’s the name of one of my colorways for my Folky-Dokey fabric collection at Modern Yardage. Every time that I create a color group for one of my designs, I do a “dot test” to see how the colors play on one another. It helps me figure out what colors to put next to each other, and I feel it saves me some time in coloring my designs. Every one of these patterns comes in 3 sizes. How cool […]

Categories: Color, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, New Design • Tags: art, bag, bohemian, boho, color, craft, create, design, fabric, folk, modern yardage, pattern, purse, quilt, sew, surface, textile

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The Sochi Effect

February 12, 2014 by groovity

The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have begun. Did you see the opening ceremonies last weekend? I skipped the part where the athletes walk in, but I’m so glad that I caught the main show. Those “Onion Domes”…how I love those shapes! The colors! I thought they did a fabulous job with the visual effects. OOOPS! Holy Spirograph, Batman! (I found these photos at The Daily Mail, click HERE to see their full article) So…I’ve been working on a new […]

Categories: Fabric Collection, New Design • Tags: art, craft, ethnic, folk, folky, olympics, onion dome, papercut, pattern, polish, polska, russia, tradition, Winter, wycinanki

Folky-Dokey has arrived!

February 1, 2014 by groovity

So excited to let you know that my long awaited fabric collection, Folky-Dokey, is now available at Modern Yardage! YAY! It’s been a long time in development, and I think it’s worth the wait. I created this collection last year as part of a final project for a class that I took at The Rhode Island School of Design. The class was fabulous, it was advanced techniques for Surface Design in Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I learned so much in […]

Categories: Color, Design, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, New Design • Tags: 2014, craft, fabric, flower, folk, modern yardage, patternbank, polish, quilt, rhode island school of design, risd, russian, S/S14, sew, slavic, spring, summer, surfacedesign, surfacepattern, surfacepatterndesign, trend

Made 4 Utah: Modern Yardage

September 25, 2013 by groovity

If you want to find out just what Modern Yardage is all about, see the link below to watch Modern Yardage’s owner, April Cobb, on the local Utah news this morning. This is the company that I license my fabric designs to. Made 4 Utah: Modern Yardage. It’s a really neato video, it show the printing process along with the variety of designs available. April talks about many of the unique things that set her company apart from the rest.

Categories: Design, Design Contest Entry, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, My Design Featured • Tags: craft, design, exclusive, interview, maker, pattern, quilt, sew, surface design

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Finalist!

September 25, 2013 by groovity

The company that I license my fabric designs to, Modern Yardage, has made it into the finals for Martha Stewart’s “American Made” contest. YAY! Please help out and vote! You can cast 6 votes per day, and voting is open until September 30th. You can even vote using your Facebook account. SUPER EASY!! Here is the link… http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade This is a BIG deal for this new start-up P.O.D. (Print on Demand) company to make it this far! We are 1 […]

Categories: Design Contest Entry, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage • Tags: collection, contest, craft, design, fabric, finalist, made in the U.S.A., maker, print on demand, quilt, sew, technology, vote

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Cuteness Alert-Baby Buddy!

September 21, 2013 by groovity

I was so excited this week to find an email in my inbox from Lucy Ferguson of “My Funny Buddy Sewing Patterns”! She made the cutest little “Buddies” from one of my fabric designs from Modern Yardage. Here are a few pictures from her blogpost…links to the blogpost and FREE pattern for the Baby Buddy are below… Modern Yardage is a print on demand online fabric store. They print on a high-quality, 100% cotton, pre-shrunk, optic white poplin fabric with […]

Categories: Design, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage, My Design Featured, New Design • Tags: adorable, children, craft, cute, doll, fabric, free, funny buddy, hobby, pattern, sew, toy

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Martha Stewart’s American Made Contest

September 11, 2013 by groovity

Did you know that Modern Yardage, the fabric company that I license my designs with, is in Martha Stewart’s American Made Contest? YEP! That’s right! And we need your help! Please take the time to cast your vote! You can vote 6 times per day, and you can use your Facebook login to do it! EASY-PEASY!!! Click HERE for the direct link to the voting page. If we win our category, we get into the final round! This would really […]

Categories: Design, Design Contest Entry, Fabric Collection, Modern Yardage

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My Modern Yardage Debut

August 9, 2013 by groovity

I am beyond excited to announce that my new collection for Modern Yardage is now available for sale!! There are currently two colorways ready for purchase, and eight more to come! Let me tell you, it took a lot of hard work from both myself and the fabulous people at Modern Yardage to bring these collections to you. There is so much that goes on behind the scenes, but so far, it’s been such a pleasure to be involved with […]

Categories: Design, Fabric Collection, Inspirational, My Design Featured, New Design • Tags: color, contemporary, craft, decor, fabric, floral, flowers, folk, folky, geometric, groovity, mary tanana, millefiori, modern yardage, pattern, quilt, sew, stripe, surface design, surface pattern design